Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than a quarter of those who said they intended to vote Labour said they either agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that he has served the town well . |
| 2 | Julia stopped and then added in a quick toneless voice , ‘ The actual facts you already know . |
| 3 | But , instead , he drew back , repelled and almost frightened by the flooding , uncontrolled wildness of the emotion . |
| 4 | To get out of bed , for instance , the patient is turned onto his side or lifted and then brought into the sitting position on the side of the bed . |
| 5 | The bound material was recovered by denaturation , reamplified and either used as a probe ( see below ) or subcloned and gridded in high-density arrays . |
| 6 | Corbett turned and angrily waved at the porter to stay where he was . |
| 7 | It was only about twelve feet long a baby by local standards — but it hissed and barked and thrashed and stank until finally converted into a writhing sack of potatoes . |
| 8 | The policeman 's note had promised action some time during the next two or three days , which could no doubt be split into a fraction of a second for a data check to establish that Sampson was a worthy and responsible citizen and neither a pervert nor a dangerous lefty , and then many hours of waiting in a paper tray to be shunted and shuffled and finally put into an envelope . |
| 9 | ‘ Now take this meatloaf , boys , ’ her father announced after a long silence , for no-one talked unless directly addressed by the head of the family . |
| 10 | ( This is not of course to say that assignment amounts to assertion ; assignment is a necessary move in forming a syntactic-semantic construction , which may then be asserted or questioned or even indicated as the situation that the speaker desires to bring about . ) |
| 11 | They 'd clinked glasses and laughed and just cruised onto the dance floor as if they 'd known each other for years . |
| 12 | Q I recently became the owner of a pond which I planted and then left for a few weeks before I put the fish in . |
| 13 | I do n't believe any of these actually knew and readily copied from the previous histories . |
| 14 | The person in question was a relative of hers and was killed or died I 'm sure not whether he was killed or died but certainly served in the forces in the four fourteen eighteen war in he was buried in . |
| 15 | But she never complained or ever referred to the château as ‘ that damned place ’ … |
| 16 | I ca n't get into the mind of some of the present batch of legislators , because they do n't seem to think thinks out logically , but what it 's actually done , or what it 's trying to do , is to make it very difficult to have an education system that is properly thought out , properly resourced and properly organized for the benefit of everybody and not just one or two people , and that 's one of the difficulties and that 's the difficulty that we any Local Authority is faced with . |
| 17 | Ruth covered his face and mouth with hot kisses as the fire , for a defiant instant , raged and then cooled in a delicious aftermath of cleansing , spring-water tranquillity . |
| 18 | he said that totally run of the place . |
| 19 | In 1978 he left and briefly practised at the Bar and taught at the City of London Polytechnic and the University of East Anglia . |
| 20 | Living in poverty , he wrote while variously employed as a tutor , publishers ’ clerk , and cataloguer of occult books . |
| 21 | This was by far the most fertile area I had as yet seen in the Danakil country , and it was dotted with small villages of mat-covered huts . |
| 22 | ‘ In the United Kingdom ’ shall include investment advertisements issued outside the UK if they are directed at persons in the UK otherwise than in a newspaper etc published and principally circulated outside the UK or broadcast on a media primarily aimed outside the UK . |
| 23 | ‘ I want to see you washed and almost dried by the time I come down . |