Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact there is no reason to believe that the Franks were involved in any long-distance migration : archaeology and history suggest that they originated in the lands immediately to the east of the Rhine . |
| 2 | The INSTALL LIST command that you executed at the beginning of Appendix D will show you whether they are installed OPEN and SHARED . |
| 3 | After the war he also confessed to me that his eyesight was very bad and he would not have passed any normal eye test that we used in the RAF , hut he did have contact lenses . |
| 4 | I realise that they looked for a family atmosphere , but is imposing this solution in such an arbitrary way really in the best interests of the game ? |
| 5 | This analysis raises the same question addressed in the previous section : if the speaker wanted the hearer to recover these effects , why did n't he or she simply say that they sprinted up the hill ? |
| 6 | When she asks , you must on no account say that it went into the sea , because she will worry that it is a curse on you — or me as well , for it was given to me at my baptism . |
| 7 | Should I lay them on the doorstep and vamoose before she responded to the bell ? |
| 8 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 9 | The prince went all a-flutter as he climbed to a memorial tower on Scolty Hill in Banchory , Grampian . |
| 10 | Yeah apart from that one pair that you got in the , that you had there . |
| 11 | Imagine if you walked down a street and said to a man , ‘ Hey , I like your hair ’ , or ‘ You look nice today ’ . |
| 12 | For a Royal tour she always used to pull out the stops and literally shop until she dropped for the occasion . |
| 13 | Strabane 's Lynn McCool had a 12 foot putt to give herself and Eileen Rose Power victory over Julie Hall and Kirsty Speak but it stopped on the lip and the match was halved . |
| 14 | The year may have started a bit show but it finished with a flourish and we have achieved a tremendous recovery along the way . |
| 15 | I mean like I said on a Friday we get thirteen seventy five till twelve o'clock . |
| 16 | ( The previous method was to leave the pieces slightly large , and then to ease them by plane or chisel until they fitted into the mortises , etc . ) |
| 17 | Er yeah , well you know we were rough because , but I mean if we got into a fight , there we there were no gang warfare . |
| 18 | Well she says if you 'd of come to Sandra 's she 'd make you something , I says I know Eileen and so would I as well , I says I would n't have anybody coming in and bringing them sandwiches , I mean if somebody knocked on the , on our door one day from Queensbury and we did n't know they were coming and they 'd brought sandwiches with them |
| 19 | I mean if I knew for the fact that I was gon na get this job at the hospital I 'd pay for it |
| 20 | Now the odds on the tote , I mean if you looked at the , I did n't bet on the National , cos I did n't like the odds . |
| 21 | I mean if you did to the edge of the bath |
| 22 | Calfa stressed that his government remained committed to the development of nuclear power , but would in future ensure that it conformed to the highest Western standards . |
| 23 | I confirm that I returned from the Gulf late last night . |
| 24 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that we returned with an impression of economic chaos — and the impression that , although aid from this country and others is welcomed , it is feared that too much is being siphoned off on to the black market ? |
| 25 | The heron profile that she saw through the grille . |
| 26 | There was nothing of interest upstairs , even though Forester went through the pockets of some expensive looking rough country wear that he found in the bedroom wardrobe . |
| 27 | We look like we came to the wrong party — like we brought our adopted son to his friend 's birthday , and called at the wrong address . |
| 28 | If you play back a recording of the rehearsal , consider whether you spoke at the right pace , and particularly whether you made an impressive pause at the right moment . |
| 29 | Two were already straining from the hands of their masters , neck ruffs erect as they waited for the moment of release on to the sawdust-strewn pit floor . |
| 30 | There 's also a general view in the community that community care itself is not necessarily really working very well , there 's some fears about it , some uncertainties and a member did mention , it may have been Jim you know or somebody mentioned about the seven hours domiciliary , from my experience as a councillor I am not sure that simply because that figure exists that that means that that is satisfying the need of those people and in any case the sort of people who need to go into residential care , who can no longer be maintained in their home , with whatever help we give them or with whatever help their family have to give them they 're not necessarily the sort of people who we 're talking about need to go in a home . |