Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 5 ) A speculative question the pupil is asked to consider how the situation might have developed or what led up to it , e.g. " What do you think happened next ? " |
| 2 | ‘ And , for your information , I 've long wished that I 'd never heard of you — or your wretched grandmother . |
| 3 | Eventually , on Feb. 25 , the Israeli Foreign Ministry disclosed that it had formally requested additional US military aid worth US$1,000 million to offset defence costs incurred as a result of the crisis . |
| 4 | At the same time , while accepting that tension between richer and poorer peasants was growing and that Stolypin 's reform created fierce friction between those who separated from the commune and those who remained within it , revisionists have stressed that it did not shake their common determination that noble land should be transferred into their hands . |
| 5 | The rest of the time , they were not disposed to look at Peter as a human being , but only as a rector , a creature of whom standards of motive and conduct were expected that they did not expect of themselves . |
| 6 | Er so that 's an item included that we did n't have on ours . |
| 7 | ‘ Fortunately for you , ’ she agreed swiftly , having momentarily forgotten that she had deliberately given him the impression that she wanted their affair kept secret . |
| 8 | I have never forgotten that I came home to my wife and said : ‘ There 's a young man working with us and I 'm sure he is going to be a big star . ’ |
| 9 | I do not think it can be claimed that they opened up new territory ( writings by Dorothy Heathcote and others in the 1970s were concerned with a level of sophistication in drama teaching which the team seemed not to be able to articulate ) , but in terms of giving some sense of order to the basic functioning of drama the publication deserves to be seen as an important landmark . |
| 10 | UNITA , which had unilaterally downgraded the status of its delegation shortly before the talks , further claimed that it had already made concessions including the recognition of the ruling MPLA as a political party , and of President dos Santos as head of state . |
| 11 | She had also claimed that he took long liquid lunches and had even been thrown out of a wine bar for fondling another girl . |
| 12 | Dawn disappeared and Sophie was so chilled that she shivered involuntarily . |
| 13 | It was n't long after the conversation about the Ivor Novello Award that he became much more resolved that he did n't need Ken Pitt as manager , so I said to him that the only thing he could do in that case was to get an attorney who would break the contract . |
| 14 | In the first annual report of the medical superintendent it was reported that it had not been necessary to use the padded cell on any occasion , despite the fact that many patients had been admitted handcuffed , leg iron locked or bound with cords and chains . |
| 15 | A very striking example was told me not long since by someone who attended a dinner party in Moscow soon after Gagarin 's space trip — the Gagarin who had reported that he did not see God in space ( see p. 57 ) . |
| 16 | I decided it was just because she had n't mattered that it had n't been worth shocking her . |
| 17 | He had protested that it did not have the money and had been told that ‘ the Minister would not wear a statement that funds were exhausted ’ . |
| 18 | Mrs talked about four , we 've actually agreed that there should be more homes on the list than four er for prospective refurbishment and Mr has stood up and protested that he did not produce the figures , but Professor still says you will produce figures for this and you will produce figures for that , none of us do that we all get our figures from the same place but we all get inconsistent figures . |
| 19 | She had fully expected Penry to dismiss them as nonsense , and felt so shattered that he had n't that it took her longer than usual to clear away and leave the kitchen immaculate . |
| 20 | It was thus the internal policies of the United States that determined to a great extent who among the indebted nations won and who lost out in the long debt crisis of the 1980s ( Wellons , 1987 ) . |
| 21 | Soon , though , we hit a Catch-22 : I could get funding for more equipment if there was a ‘ group ’ organised , but no village women wanted to be organised if they did n't have machines . |
| 22 | ‘ It is disappointing because he was just getting the hang of Wimbledon and he would have won if he had n't taken the knock at the first bend , ’ said Williams . |
| 23 | ‘ For my part I believe the African Jesus would have won if it had not been for the Dark Host . |
| 24 | He had n't exaggerated and he had n't tried to make the SS seem worse than they really were , the way everyone had assumed . ’ |
| 25 | Lisa had not forgotten and she did not try to deny it . |
| 26 | When they heard it the sepoys threw back their heads and uttered a howl so piercing , so harrowing that every window in the Residency must have dissolved if they had not been already broken . |
| 27 | As the nose of the aircraft was raised and some right bank smoothly applied the aircraft was observed to flick suddenly to the right to ninety degrees of bank , whereupon the nose dropped and it descended steeply to the ground . |
| 28 | Two engines and propellers had been removed from the aircraft and all of a sudden the nose lifted and she went down on her tail . |
| 29 | On the day I hit the big Four-O , the fog suddenly lifted and I celebrated non-stop . |
| 30 | They were well fed and well disposed to each other and they could hardly be blamed if they felt just a little smug . |