Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As Clinton went from strength to strength , Bush failed to struggle out of that image of being weak . |
| 2 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
| 3 | He tells her , too , about the toy drawer in which the pencil-case was originally lost , and the characteristic choking dusty smell it would develop as the toys in it became mixed up with each other to form a kind of solid pudding , which had to be taken out at the end of each school holidays , and separated once again into its components . |
| 4 | Couple of chaps at the school got booted out for that stuff and I never did get round to it . ’ |
| 5 | It was as much to disprove some of their absurd assumptions as to help you prove your own theories that I agreed to come in on this project . |
| 6 | Two Chinese teachers have just graduated from an international centre in Hebrew They say both China and Israel have ancient traditions , and it 's about time they got to know more about each other . |
| 7 | ‘ Aye , except he pointed out that if she was new to the job and she tried to muzzle in around that quarter , the others would soon make short shrift of her . |
| 8 | Some were veterans of News on Sunday 's many faction fights but now , for once , they stopped ganging up on each other and ganged up on Sutton . |
| 9 | Yet the ‘ Song of Eärendil ’ does of course tell a story as well : how Eärendil tried to sail out of this world to a kind of Paradise , how he succeeded in the end by virtue of the ‘ Silmaril ’ , how this in turn led to his becoming a star , or rather the helmsman of a celestial boat in which the burning Silmaril appears to Middle-earth as a star . |
| 10 | However , what I can do is try to present to you some of the points of view we tried to draw together in that group because we did have someone who is a proprietor of a private home ; we had people from health ; we had people from social work ; we had people from housing ; we had people from different interest groups who approached the issue in different ways . |
| 11 | The former topless model took action which led to police being called when Davidson tried to get back in this week . |
| 12 | Raiders tried to break in to this cottage in the early hours , but they were spotted by vigilant neighbours when security lights came on . |
| 13 | Raiders tried to break in to this cottage in the early hours , but they were spotted by vigilant neighbours when security lights came on . |
| 14 | I was that for about , I soon got fed up with that job . |
| 15 | Our man got fed up with this nonsense . |
| 16 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 17 | Yet every time I thought I 'd broken out of that cage you pushed me back again . ’ |
| 18 | He a attended courses , and on a couple of occasions he 'd travelled down with another officer to collect prisoners . |
| 19 | Of course I did n't know that cos I 'd conked out with this gas you see . |
| 20 | Everything always seemed to lead back to that place . |
| 21 | I wondered if she 'd moved on to another place in the forest without saying anything , but when I stood perfectly still , I could hear the rhythmic scratching of her karaso from behind some trees , and the occasional tearing sound when she accidentally caught it in the undergrowth . |
| 22 | It came to rest precisely beside each letter before coming to a halt in the centre of the table . |
| 23 | The trees had thinned out a little , the closer they got to the coast , until they passed by the last of them and stepped on to sand that seemed to stretch endlessly in either direction . |
| 24 | Her left hand was curled down under the hem of her skirt , which she 'd pulled up on that side . |
| 25 | It was a long time since he 'd eaten out in this style and he was shocked by the escalation of prices and VAT . |
| 26 | He then missed a sitter during a subsequent defeat at Ibrox that probably made him wish he 'd gone AWOL before that match , too . |
| 27 | Apparently , whenever she 'd gone close to this man he 'd shooed her away , recoiling from her and muttering , ‘ Pork , pork , pork , VD , VD , white woman , white woman . ’ |
| 28 | Mait seemed taken aback by this outburst . |
| 29 | I thought you 'd taken off in that spaceship of yours . ’ |
| 30 | As Faraday went deeper into electromagnetism , he began to leave his contemporaries behind ; his work was on the boundary between inductive experimental science and deductive physics , and failed to fit easily into either category . |