Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For readers there were books and rooms set apart as libraries , and there were people who learnt a great deal and people who read furiously and learnt nothing . |
| 2 | But he knew from experience it was often best with Blanche simply to answer a question she asked rather than seek to question why she posed it . |
| 3 | Demand switched , from charters produced locally and confirmed by the attachment of a princely seal , to those written in a prince 's name by his own clerks in his writing office . |
| 4 | Old age becomes something to be dreaded and endured rather than enjoyed by the individual . |
| 5 | And although the sex was something I endured rather than enjoyed , it was a learning experience . |
| 6 | The Maccabees fought rather than acquiesce in the placing of a statue of Zeus in the Temple . |
| 7 | The furniture came with the smell : soft , shiny , billowy and over-decorated like great banks of flowers ; the little lampshades around the walls were all tassels and fringes , the ornaments were fiddly coloured glass and the not-quite-velvet curtains draped artistically and bound with golden cords . |
| 8 | From all this information the team drew up a matrix of crafts , materials and local resources , analysed technologies applied locally and attempted to order skills development in level of difficulty and in relation to social custom as a preliminary to curriculum design . |
| 9 | For all its professionalism , impeccable timing and diction , it glowed rather than crackled , more especially during the central act . |
| 10 | L'Auberge expanded , necessitating the employment of Arnold , a young chef who took over most of the day-to-day running of the kitchen , and Olive , a restaurant manageress who , like almost all the waitresses , lived locally and had been trained on the job by George . |
| 11 | He did n't look back at the sudden commotion behind him and , when a shadow passed over him , merely gibbered weakly and tried to burrow into the horse 's mane . |
| 12 | Now , if she were seated in her old place , wedged between the window and Penini , with his mother opposite encircled in her husband 's arms , or , if the men rode alongside or travelled on the outside of the carriage , sitting with her mistress while Pen and Flush lay on the other seat — now she would feel stifled , trapped , longing to get out . |
| 13 | ‘ How can you be sure it was only one ? ’ the thin man asked doubtfully but clutching at a straw of hope . |
| 14 | He straightened suddenly and looked down at her coldly . |
| 15 | Then he straightened suddenly and returned the paperweight to its place on his desk . |
| 16 | Concurrent Computer Corp , which recently posted better than expected third quarter results ( see below ) , has opted to take Unix System Labs ' Unix System V Release 4.2 MP as the operating system for its next generation of real-time Unix systems , due out by the end of this calendar year ( UX No 402 ) . |
| 17 | Giles led the team of surgeons who , in 1988 , fought valiantly but failed to save the life of Russell Harty , the writer and broadcaster . |
| 18 | Jacqueline and Tommy lived together and drank and fought . |
| 19 | There were very few groups that stayed together as a unit all the time ; you just got together and played what were current country hits , current pop hits , with whatever instrumentation you had . |
| 20 | To get around this limitation Lotus Microsoft and Intel got together and invented a special type of memory — expanded memory or Lotus-Intel-Microsoft ( LIM ) memory . |
| 21 | The defender said : ‘ When we lost 5-0 at Liverpool a couple of weeks ago we all got together and had a heart-to-heart . |
| 22 | The two got together and announced at the 1989 Seybold conference that they were going to develop a clone of PostScript based on Bauer 's which would use Apple 's new fonts on both the Macintosh and under OS/2 . |
| 23 | It was then that the local community got together and offered to help . |
| 24 | ‘ The idea was developed by four brewers who got together and devised the system for brewing beer in a container ’ says Smillie . |
| 25 | Without the motor car in mind , I mean for instance , we had Oxford , Reading and Swindon it was suggested a few years ago , that they got together and formed the Thames Valley United . |
| 26 | If they got together and started to change things , showing real women or girls , then things could start to alter . |
| 27 | The Hawken and the Grenville families soon got together and repaired to Ince . |
| 28 | ‘ I understand that some of the passengers on the jet , which was flying from Bahrain , got together and helped pay his fine . |
| 29 | Carl Perkins and myself , with DJ and everybody , got together and did an album in April . |
| 30 | He and Crawford got together and organized their own stage act , which included a few of their own songs . |