Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [adv] [verb] " 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 | And building society , anybody who has a building society account prior to ninety one two if they had n't income really i they were silly to have money in the building society account because they were having tax deducted but could n't get it back and at the same time as the independent taxation they changed the er tax system for building societies and banks which meant that banks and building societies were then deducted tax at the standard rate of twenty five percent and it could be refunded or repaid or not deducted in certain circumstances , so back to your question , anybody who has money in a building society now , or is n't taxable , should ask the building society not to deduct tax , as they 're entitled to do , fill a form and , and where people can state that they do n't , they 're not liable to pay tax , building societies and banks will not now deduct income tax . |
| 3 | Modern legislation had increasingly vested quasi-judicial powers in officials and excluded or indirectly diminished the authority of the courts . |
| 4 | I fumed and later told Brian , ‘ That 's it . |
| 5 | Stell 's owner , Gary Morrison , had complied with all the other requirements of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 , and had registered , insured , tattooed and electronically tagged his pet , but the court in Bristol stated that they had ‘ no option ’ but to order the destruction of the dog . |
| 6 | Swiftly , now , before the deep-freezers , the dehydrators and the emulsifiers take the syllabub away from us and return it transformed and forever despoiled , let us discover how it was made in its heyday and what we can do to recapture something of its pristine charm . |
| 7 | His model of utilitarian punishment was exemplified most famously in the Panopticon — a prison he designed and narrowly failed to persuade the British government to let him build . |
| 8 | This time the line first tautened and then twanged loose . |
| 9 | In the evening Chola woke him with some water to drink : he winced and then groaned as the pain shot out from his thigh and radiated through his body . |
| 10 | Seven people , including a mother and child , were killed when a lorry and van crashed and then ploughed into a Post Office today . |
| 11 | He rose and absentmindedly patted me on the shoulder . |
| 12 | Dr James Young , an associate of Michael Faraday , first mined the shale in 1851 at Torbane and refined paraffin from it , and the discovery started a sort of gold rush to the Lothians , where many small firms rose and soon fell . |
| 13 | ‘ I had a couple of hours , but the paperwork needed my attention , so — ’ His shoulders rose and wearily fell . |
| 14 | He rose and then dived within her , starting slowly as if to the beating of a primal drum . |
| 15 | It can be a different matter where staff are overworked and underpaid and still expected to smile constantly . |
| 16 | His telephone rang almost at once ; he was through to the chief 's personal assistant , a grey-haired lady of vast experience who monitored and sometimes modulated communication ( other than face to face ) between the chief and the outside world — including his policemen . |
| 17 | Saturday brought the course to close with an enjoyable ‘ altogether ’ in the gym , then once mor we made our ways home stimulated , refreshed and already looking forward to next year . |
| 18 | Her voice trembled and almost broke . |
| 19 | After the model had been repaired , Watt discovered that it would only work for a few stroked and then stop . |
| 20 | She bent and quickly swept the powder up again , then went outside to empty it into the dustbin . |
| 21 | He stopped and carefully put down his briefcase . |
| 22 | Then , against all her better instincts , she stopped and slowly turned to look back down Lyra Street . |
| 23 | When we stopped and slowly turned , with our bulging eyes in place , the gang scattered with such blood-curdling screams that we wondered if we had n't overdone it , and felt sufficiently ashamed of ourselves never to use the eyes again . |
| 24 | She stopped and simply looked at him , smiling broadly . |
| 25 | It creaked and I stopped and then heard something : a sort of thin scratching from underneath the stairs . |
| 26 | I will find someone , truly I — ’ She stopped and then said diffidently , ‘ And — ; and mother ? ’ |
| 27 | Julia stopped and then added in a quick toneless voice , ‘ The actual facts you already know . |
| 28 | Seen from a distance at night , the dimly lit vehicles resembled ‘ the folds of some gigantic and luminous serpent which never stopped and never ended ’ On either side of the road their headlamps lit up the bowed backs of the endless columns of marching men . |
| 29 | The poles slid glistening in and out of the water as the craft approached and then beached with a bump . |
| 30 | This painful , though , in its context , highly effective course of action was part and parcel of a brutal and unenlightened society and no doubt it left all those who survived it spiritually stunted and psychologically scarred . |