Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of its hurting or not hurting had n't occurred to me before , but now he mentioned it , it did seem preferable that it should n't . |
| 2 | How many courses or conferences have you attended or even seen advertised that mention children in their titles ? |
| 3 | Deals that might have been deferred or even lost got closed . |
| 4 | Those parts of the complex which were neither intact nor totally destroyed had been covered and converted to shelter equipment , and the central courtyard was almost completely sealed in by an open-sided marquee top supported on braced poles . |
| 5 | In the fifteenth century , a chastity belt that really worked appeared on the European market . |
| 6 | The new generation of producers that subsequently emerged came to believe it was possible for the British film industry to ‘ take on ’ the Americans , although this grand ambition had more to do with a desire to efface their inferiority complex than any serious resolve to face reality . |
| 7 | Cathbad did not contribute very much to the meetings , and so Lugh did not pay him very much attention . |
| 8 | In a muddled way , he expected that she might fall into his arms , that he would be able to comfort her and that one thing would lead to another ; and so absorbed had he become in the effect Sam 's death would have on his own affairs , that he had forgotten that it might have some other effect on Martha 's . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , I was left to ponder whether to have healing or not to have healing , and so concerned did I become that in the end , a wise man from the Quakers was summoned to give a judgement of Solomon . |
| 10 | We were glad to reach Rangoon which at that time of the year , early March , was very hot , and so Pop sent us up to Taungin-in the Shan States where we stayed with a delightful elderly American missionary , Miss Hughes . |
| 11 | John McVurich , alledged diviner , being summond and not compared recommended him to the session of Kilarrow to processe him for the same . |
| 12 | John McVurich , alledged diviner , being summond and not compared recommended him to the session of Kilarrow to processe him for the same . |
| 13 | To allow Buster only to speak and not to move seemed to be the height of folly . ’ |
| 14 | I put my pyjamas on underneath my clothes and thus protected went for a walk round Pau . |
| 15 | He could sense that there was no harm in the Sweeper , and as the days went by and still Minch did not come back , he seemed to sense too that the Sweeper cared and was on his side in wishing for her safe return . |
| 16 | Guests entered via a thicket of tripods and swaying umbrella flashes and quickly became rimed with the sweat and muck of media heat . |
| 17 | The walking tour during which ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ was planned and partly written began in failing light on 13 November 1797 . |
| 18 | But now he looked inescapably furious , and also seemed stalemated about what to say to the cabdriver . |
| 19 | Yet everyone knew of the abuses which had grown , flourished and even became institutionalized in this laissez faire prison system . |
| 20 | He did n't feel like eating , and even breathing had become a painful labour . |
| 21 | in the second half Wimbledon threatened to run away with it but Judge saw them off more than once and then United came good again with a late charge … |
| 22 | And then Peters sank his own hideously transformed jaws into the thing 's arm as it lifted Cardiff . |
| 23 | and then and then Miss said you 'd better come down and we 'll have a talk about it , I 've learnt a bit more about your ex country |
| 24 | how much prior formal review activity had they been accustomed to and how threatened had they felt ; |
| 25 | Studies of the 700-km 3 Bishop Tuff eruption and its precursors from Long Valley , California reveal distinct Sr-isotope differences between crystals and their host liquids and between melts erupted at different times . |
| 26 | During the last war intelligence experts came to rely upon Ultra so heavily that if Ultra intercepts told them nothing they automatically assumed the Germans were doing nothing . |
| 27 | The issue was not resolved by the Organising Committee , but eventually Hacking retreated from the CEB view and accepted the arguments for fourteen generation areas coterminous with the distribution boards . |
| 28 | He was considering taking orders , but soon became dispirited by the contrast between the stuffy cant of Wigan 's vicarage and the godless poverty of his parish . |
| 29 | yes and everybody not too happy as you can probably imagine erm Peter erm while we were talking to Paul Simpson , in fact Brian Horton was holding his press conference and I think he said the same as everybody else ; ‘ Bolder the opposition goalkeeper had an inspired game , but really United had the chances and the possession , and really everything to kill Charlton off long before half time and really put no pressure on themselves in the second half . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ What she did n't say and was too embarrassed to talk about was an uncanny feeling that she had only recently become aware of , but now realised had been growing in her ever since she had set foot on Titron . |