Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [pron] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second hand had stopped where it had met the pin inserted near the 55-second mark . |
| 2 | Oppression lay on me like a dead beast , not gaunt and stiff-legged like the animals which lay where they had dropped along the desert road , but soft and smothering like something from which the breath had only just gone . |
| 3 | She swore , but lay where she had fallen . |
| 4 | His thick black curly hair seemed to grow around his head like a crown , leaving his forehead exposed where it had receded . |
| 5 | Apart from the light from Craig 's torch , still propped where he had left it against the main power conduits , the chamber was dark and empty . |
| 6 | The motorhome will be the lucky winners ' base for the next two weeks , offering them freedom to go where they please to explore New Zealand 's unspoilt areas of breathtaking , natural beauty . |
| 7 | The passport office in Liverpool issued me with a new passport , and , though I had made dozens of requests to the army for a vehicle , BBC Radio Manchester succeeded where I had failed . |
| 8 | a similar point arose where it proposed to serve the writ and an Anton Piller order out of the jurisdiction on a Belgian company . |
| 9 | Right , the correlation coefficient is given by da da R equals , now we 've already met this , this is your old friend the product , and what we 're gon na do is divide it by N minus one Now if you think , I 'll wait til you 've got that down let's see if I can find this bloody rubber . |
| 10 | when he 'd hidden her and covered her over , he set out to find where she 'd lived . |
| 11 | Well I mean surely it 's , that 's the point now is to try to make a fair erm law and one that is ideologically erm designed seeing we 've got to power , or we 've got certainty of obtaining power , therefore land ownership has got to be land ownership which has been capitalism Marxist |
| 12 | One story of how a local university academic had come into the police station to report his car missing , because he had forgotten where he had parked it , was repeated with relish ; while another which I told on my return from university satisfied these deeply held views of the ‘ intellectual 's ’ practical ineptitude : |
| 13 | Rumour had it that although he made his home in an unoccupied derelict house near the CPR docks , he was really very wealthy , having buried his family fortune long ago and quite forgotten where he had left it . |
| 14 | Puzzled , I finally twigged where they had come from : the synthetic rock — supposedly safe — that I had decorated the tank with . |
| 15 | It was not necessary , he could have rung once he had arrived , but in this way he committed himself . |
| 16 | Perhaps we could discuss once you have had an opportunity to consider them . |
| 17 | Mr Ellis added : ‘ When we took over the line the state of the locomotives was not as we would have wished so we have embarked on a rebuilding process . ’ |
| 18 | But the , the link between sex and reproduction is always likely to be more critical to a woman So , so , so you see th th the point I 'm making is these insights seem to me to be to have a kind of relevance to er women 's experience of sex that is some ways greater than it is to male males can you know once they 've done their fertilizing work , they 're , they 're really through as far as erm as far as biology is concerned , not perhaps as far as social . |
| 19 | So an annuity ca n't fall once you 've bought it it 's guaranteed , so you can see there are advantages to it . |
| 20 | be careful in the dusk , remember mirror , signal , manoeuvre once you start to overtake move quickly passed the vehicle you are overtaking , when overtake er , overtake only on the right except when the driver in the front has signalled that he intends to turn right , you can overtake him on the left , without getting in the way , when you want to turn left at a junction , when traffic is moving slowly in queues and be er , in a lane on the right and moving more slowly than you are , in one way streets , but not dual carriageways , maybe with a path on either side , when traffic is moving as described , do not increase your speed while being overtaken , slow down if necessary to let the overtaking vehicle pass . |
| 21 | But the books a writer fails to write in his adolescence are of a different nature from the books he fails to write once he has announced his profession . |
| 22 | An overhit forehand from Sampras who , despite offering a far more solid challenge against Forget than he had done against Leconte , was still not as consistent enough with his groundstrokes as one would have expected from someone who had become ATP Tour champion two weeks earlier , made it 15–0 . |
| 23 | In 1978 , when the factory moved , the union was officially dissolved although it continued to function secretly . |
| 24 | I could n't go back to work although I had tried several times and socializing was no fun at all . |
| 25 | Michael adds once we 've got the bit between the teeth we go on til we get it right . |
| 26 | On Saturday 7 March 1719 ( English style ) the Spanish invasion force , consisting of 5000 men , plus some horses and with food and water for a month , sailed from Cadiz in 25 transports , escorted by only five weakly armed warships which would have been outnumbered and out-gunned if they had encountered either of the British squadrons . |
| 27 | It follows that in my judgment the public law duties of the council were not discharged until they had completed the process of deciding on the suitable accommodation which they were obliged to secure for the plaintiff . |
| 28 | As public sector managers often benefit in terms of status , pay and conditions from the size of their bureaucracy , they will attempt to produce more of a non-marketed good than its customers would buy if they had to pay a price which reflected the cost of the good . |
| 29 | In fact I 'd rather you ask as I 'm going through because er very often you think of something and er you wait to the end and you 've forgotten what it was you wanted to know until you 've got home when then you re all of a sudden you remember what it was . |
| 30 | Sorry , I should explain to the committee that I was informed that the secretary who normally does the minutes for the half past one was sick , and had , she 'd been sent home by her doctor at lunch time , so I came back from lunch and had to come straight into committee , and I do apologize if I have missed bits of paper or whatever , I 've gathered up everything I could , but that might well be one of the things that I 've left behind . |