Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] [art] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think , yeah , well he rang me , so erm , I think she was expecting , I think they , when they left the house this morning , he was thinking , he 'd be able to get home in time for it , and erm , then he got to work and the day was n't , had n't worked out the way he expected . |
| 2 | She turned at the door to wave but the car was already in gear and accelerating down the drive . |
| 3 | Stuart tried hard to reach but the shelf was just too high . |
| 4 | It drifted and swirled about him , making him peaceful and tired , until his sense of loss began to go and the night was no longer awesome , for he had the protection of a Callanish eagle near him , and that gave him peace to rest and sleep at last … |
| 5 | On March 9 demonstrators , under an overtly nationalist blue flag featuring the Soyombo symbol , threatened to call a general strike ; the politburo thereupon agreed to resign and the strike was called off . |
| 6 | The mother of the remaining patient confessed to abuse and the child was placed in the care of the extended family . |
| 7 | We used to play and the noise was terrible … climbing on her back and shouting … |
| 8 | We had only about a hundred miles to go but the journey was to take twenty-four hours . |
| 9 | There was no attempt to persuade and the result was that I blew up . |
| 10 | By now it was near the close on the third day ; Gooch and Boycott made a confident start , but much of the Monday was lost to rain and the game was then abandoned on the last afternoon with almost ten hours having been lost . |
| 11 | Corbett knew he had to leave but the room was spinning around him and he fell gratefully into the gathering blackness . |
| 12 | And now she concentrated the whole of her mind and her brain and her will up into her eyes and once again but much more quickly than before she felt the electricity gathering and the power was beginning to surge and the hotness was coming into the eyeballs , and then the millions of tiny invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out towards the glass , and without making any sound at all she kept on shouting inside her head for the glass to go over . |
| 13 | The three Free Presbyterian ministers and their supporters heckled Soper 's open-air meeting in Ballymena so persistently that the police had to intervene and the meeting was abandoned . |
| 14 | The documents the court sent out were difficult to understand and no guidance was given on completing it . |
| 15 | Work itself with its complicated fluctuation of task was seen as too complicated for a worker to understand and the belief was that only management could do so . |
| 16 | I tried to eavesdrop but the door was too thick . |
| 17 | Ann suggested we get under the table and I was n't about to argue but the table was too small so we crawled on hands and knees to hide under a larger table . |
| 18 | The waves of the South Shore were long in forming and slow to break and the water was a constant seventy-six degrees . |
| 19 | But the pathology failed to develop and the ambulance was never required . |
| 20 | But anglers in the Peter Walker Open could n't persuade the fish to eat and the match was won by a mere 4lb 14oz . |
| 21 | It all ended in something like farce , with Capel and Russell unsure whether to press on or come off , but there were still 31 to get and the light was wretched when Gooch called them in . |
| 22 | Deputy Head brought child into school and was dealing with the incident in his office when the child 's Class Teacher burst in in a frenzied manner shouting that this was what she did n't want to happen and the child was getting too much attention . |
| 23 | So sorry about your hubby 's mishap though , it must be awkward having no arms and legs at all now , I did shout for you to stop but the wind was blowing the other way . |
| 24 | Thus , the following pair of sentences The man was eager to please and The man was easy to please are alike in their surface structure but are different in their deep structure . |
| 25 | The company later ceased to trade and a liquidator was appointed . |
| 26 | Moxon explained : ‘ It was a difficult decision to make but the choice was between Ashley or Simon Kellett who played particularly well at Canterbury when he scored 90 . |
| 27 | Putt tried to reply but the result was a sound such as might escape from the lips of a choking man . |
| 28 | The stress and tension of the occasion were partly to blame but the incident was also an early symptom of bulimia nervosa , the illness which took pernicious hold later that year . |