Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After two hours I began to wonder if he had stitched me up and then , worse , whether he was back at the flat with Alison . |
| 2 | Of course I wanted to help but did n't want to startle him by suddenly appearing . |
| 3 | I chose the sketches I wanted to perform and wrote an over-long introduction based on why I felt drawn to Joyce . |
| 4 | The Dushanbe garrison commander ( CIS armed forces ) , Col. Vyacheslav Zabolotny , said afterwards that he had ordered tanks to the KGB headquarters to stop the violence which threatened to erupt when demonstrators attempted to break in to the building . |
| 5 | She describes them , for example , as ‘ infantilised ’ ; she accepts without question research which purported to show that most women despised each other ( Millett , 1977 , p. 55 ) ; she sees women as having little ‘ self-respect ’ , and as devoting almost all their time and attention to pleasing and flattering men . |
| 6 | I found I was the only woman in the upstairs room of the Albert in Kings Cross , listening to a man in a leather jacket giving an introductory talk which seemed to assume that we were all men . |
| 7 | The manifesto advocated a " socially oriented market economy " , a term which appeared to imply that the BCP sought to temper the introduction of market mechanisms by retaining a degree of state economic control and regulation . |
| 8 | Although this herb has its origin in Southern Europe and western Asia , its common name is said to derive either from the Anglo-Saxon dylle or the old Norse dilla which meant to soothe or lull , in reference to its use in calming infants who had hiccups — in fact Culpeper said " it stayeth the hiccough . " |
| 9 | If , however , a definite association were to be found between the occurrence of skin cancers or miscarriages and the continued use of computer monitors , then computer manufacturers and importers who continued to make or sell equipment giving off such dangerous emissions would be liable under the Act . |
| 10 | Then she discovered that it was Travis she had to thank that the news of her engagement to his cousin was all over Vasey 's , as , still smiling , he stated , ‘ Hope you do n't mind , Naylor , but I came in earlier to have a quick word with Leith , and could n't resist telling her assistant that a possible reason for Leith being late this morning could be her getting engaged to you at the weekend . ’ |
| 11 | Words she tended to forget when she was up and away from him . |
| 12 | Our 1978 data detected four subjects who seemed to acquire and then lose H pylori antibodies . |
| 13 | Travelling in a first-class carriage , waited on hand and foot and endlessly interrupted by kind ticket inspectors who wanted to see if one was quite happy ! |
| 14 | That said , we have seen so many people in recent months who wanted to move but could not do so until they knew what was going to happen to their take-home income . ’ |
| 15 | And I think the way we did it we marked down the three shops we wanted to do and make sure you do those three shops . |
| 16 | Other income came from the calves we had to spare and everyone would lose quite a bit of sleep when the cows were calving since the event would invariably happen in the middle of the night and it was often necessary to play midwife in case of complications . |
| 17 | ‘ As a result we had to regroup and go after them again in a big pincer movement . |
| 18 | The first visit to Brussels , the amend , the first visit to Brussels we had to go and bail you out because the Commission , the Commission , we could have been in this er |
| 19 | Instead of passively accepting whatever inflow of funds they happened to receive and relying on their skill at selecting assets for their profit , institutions began to ‘ bid ’ for funds . |
| 20 | Tom Hanks had come to the fair with two ageing horses from the manor he wanted to sell and he brought Carrie with him , riding in a light cart behind which were tied the two horses . |
| 21 | Piggy believed that he was perfectly innocent and after Simon 's murder he refused to believe that he had taken part in the killing . |
| 22 | It was in this atmosphere of unease that the Younger Committee reported ; about computers it had to say that , restricted as it was to investigating private sector applications , it had no evidence of abuse , but that there was a possibility and apprehension of abuse in the future . |
| 23 | ( A famous actor interviewed recently on the radio said that , when he had learned his part in a play , he did not just know the words he had to say but where the new paragraphs came and when he had to turn the page of the script . |
| 24 | Would-be reformers were also preoccupied by two powerful institutions which seemed to epitomize and reinforce Spain 's general backwardness . |
| 25 | This is called neo-evolutionism , because the nineteenth-century evolutionism which tended to insist that there was a single path along which societies would evolve ( usually from the primitive to the civilized states ) , was considered unacceptable . |
| 26 | Subsequent to the Minister 's announcement , NCVQ and SCOTVEC held discussions which aimed to ensure that an individual 's vocational achievements would receive recognition throughout the United Kingdom . |
| 27 | Such moderacy did not , however , stem the flood of accusations against the cinema which continued to allege that the movies were encouraging new and dangerous trends of lawlessness among the young . |
| 28 | This would imply that any particular ‘ Industrial Democracy ’ proposals which attempted to bypass or undermine the strength of the shop stewards should be resisted , but such particular resistance would be quite different from a total rejection of the supposedly malign effects of accepting any responsibility for the operation of enterprises under capitalism . |
| 29 | She was all pale green and chestnut , with an emerald blaze at her throat ; I roamed her face , from the bursting curve of her forehead to the plum-dent of her chin ; her cheeks , so often pallid , were brushed with the pink of a Tiepolo dawn , though whether the brush was external and garaged in her handbag or internal and wielded by ecstasy , I was unable or unwilling to guess ; her mouth was besieged by a half-smile which seemed to last and last ; her eyes were her lustrous dowry . |
| 30 | During the Eighties the cosmetics industry invested millions in developing skin-care products which claimed to halt or even reverse the ageing process . |