Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [indef pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we observe this , we should either refresh his mind by saying something with becoming liveliness or something calculated to arouse great wonder and amazement , or even grief and lamentation . |
| 2 | If it was a ramshackle building where no-one wanted to live , fair enough , but that is not the case . ’ |
| 3 | This risk might come from subsequent investigation of the audit , or from investigations carried out by any of the various regulatory bodies such as the Inland Revenue Investigations Branch or one established under the Financial Services Act . |
| 4 | It thus mattered a great deal where one Lived and to what sort of job one became initially attached . |
| 5 | crap or something did n't he ? |
| 6 | You ended up like poor old Eddy Moulton , put out to pasture in some quiet department where nobody bothered to talk to you , doing small unworthy chores and dozing the day away . |
| 7 | We all loaded into the Volvo and went down to Shellerton Manor where everyone trooped in to see Harry . |
| 8 | He could smell jasmine , garlic , turpentine , and , closing his eyes , he could cling to the illusion that nothing had changed . |
| 9 | It was only from looking at film of the first episode that everyone remembered Frank had forgotten to wear his famous beret and raincoat . |
| 10 | At Billy Graham 's 1961 Maine Road Stadium Crusade , low-level , multi-speaker systems meant that music from choir and instruments was travelling around the stadium electronically and then being ‘ chased ’ by the real sound , with the result that everyone heard everything at least twice . |
| 11 | Before long , he would be required to produce more than just carefully worded facts about the murder that everyone knew already from the grapevine . |
| 12 | It was somewhere along the lane between Nunes and Hadleigh but so much vegetation had grown up that spring that everything looked different . |
| 13 | Melissa was not given to premonition but the fear that something had happened to Sybil had taken hold and would not be shaken off . |
| 14 | I shot a scene on the top of the Old Bailey that everybody thought I could never do . |
| 15 | This , of course , was not her only reward in life , but she made her hour a ritual that everyone observed and she derived a lot of pleasure from it . |
| 16 | Once in the park , Joyce 's mother had stopped to talk to another young woman while Joyce herself sat watching some birds pecking at the remains of a sandwich that someone had dropped on the path . |
| 17 | ( But it was n't my fault that someone blew up his sky-bar while trying to get at me . |
| 18 | IRA bomber Rosena Brown was a better actress than anyone gave her credit for . |
| 19 | Standing there with his upturned collar and downturned straw hat , from which wisps of smoke still issued , he looked like a garden gnome that somebody had thrown accidentally on to the barbecue . |
| 20 | They had had no indication that anything had gone wrong , but there had been no firm news from Stockholm since before the flight . |
| 21 | When the author of the Life of Edward the Confessor says that he trusted the cause of God to his bishops , and ordered secular judges to act fairly , so that honesty could have royal support and evil its just condemnation , this may be an indication that someone did for Edward what Wulfstan had done for Æthelred and Cnut . |
| 22 | No indication that anyone had been killed in it or done anything else in it but sit in it . |
| 23 | John Major , the Foreign Secretary , said in another BBC interview that nothing had changed since the EC Madrid summit last June : Britain would become a full member of the European Monetary System ( EMS ) when inflation fell to ‘ the approximate rate ’ of European competitors , and when France and Italy abolished exchange controls . |
| 24 | A car that nobody wanted to buy , built on a site chosen for political not commercial reasons , hundreds of miles from its component suppliers . |
| 25 | On the way in from the airport , Hurley had warned him that the back bedroom was full of electronic gear that nobody knew how to use . |
| 26 | How much nicer Mark Ainger was , assuming in his remote kindness that everybody knew about the things he was interested in himself and being much too charitable to pass judgement on other people 's amusements , however unlike his own though they might be . |
| 27 | It was like no other protein that anyone had described before , and so there was no clue to its function . |
| 28 | In 1974 , he became President and Elena was First Lady ; but there were straws in the wind that something had turned sour . |
| 29 | Taking a summer holiday used to be regarded as a luxury that everyone owed to themselves . |
| 30 | He had offered the car to Hubert for the summer on condition that everyone promised never to stand on the running boards , because they were threatening to fall off . |