Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this film Leonard recorded eight poems from his recent book ( ‘ For Wilf And His House ’ , ‘ Beside The Shepherd ’ , ‘ Poem ’ , ‘ Lovers ’ , ‘ The Sparrows ’ , ‘ Warning ’ , ‘ Les Vieux ’ and ‘ Elegy ’ ) ; the sleeve was careful to emphasise that he also wrote songs for a local group called The Stormy Clovers , by no means his first such work . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust . |
| 3 | it made eating and doing a little more exciting to know that someone else had just ceased doing these basic human things for ever . |
| 4 | The other officers drifted away , and Charles following into the office was relieved to see that it hardly differed from those he had known . |
| 5 | He was chosen for Scotland 's tour of North America in May , played in four of the six games , including the two non-cap Tests , and scored three tries : ‘ I was delighted to go but I never thought for a moment that I would make the Test side . |
| 6 | Aileen Baker was delighted to find that she only needed to borrow 60 per cent of the purchase price of a three-bedroom flat she had her eye on . |
| 7 | It was impossible to know whether he still believed she 'd been responsible for that . |
| 8 | He will be less easy to understand if you literally put your heads together . |
| 9 | Unfortunately fresh tissue was not available from the carcinoma , and therefore it was impossible to say whether it also contained a p53 gene mutation . |
| 10 | Readers from last month will be glad to know that I finally tracked down the elusive Tequila based Marguerita in a Tex-Mex cafe in Covent Garden . |
| 11 | When we read in the Roslavl' files that twenty-three agitator brigades were dispatched to villages in order to celebrate international Women 's Day , it is hard to imagine that they ever came across our peasant woman from Struga , and even more difficult to believe that they would have much impact on her ways of thinking even if they did . |
| 12 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |
| 13 | It would be far too glib to suggest that he consciously made the second change , to adopt Christianity , merely to give himself an excuse to abandon sexual relations with Mrs Moore , whatever the nature of those relations had been . |
| 14 | She watched them go off together , then went in search of Robert , though she found it hard to believe that he really wanted to talk to her . |
| 15 | I 'm glad to say that I never found out what they intended . |
| 16 | The pitch was deteriorating and things were always were likely to happen if you just tried to survive . ’ |
| 17 | The thick forests growing on the flanks of the volcano were completely levelled , in some cases so completely that it was hard to tell that there once had been trees growing there . |
| 18 | CHATTING to former England all-rounder Trevor Bailey during the Old Trafford Test , I was intrigued to discover that he once played football against Manchester United in front of 57,000 spectators . |
| 19 | As we get older and perhaps more worldly , it is sometimes awkward to admit that we ever believed such nonsense , and even more difficult to admit that not everything we imbibed was bad or wrong . |
| 20 | ‘ The truth ! ’ she exclaimed , too hurt and angry to remember that he still had every reason to be suspicious . |
| 21 | Labour 's hand on inflation would be strengthened if its leader were able to announce that it now supported early British entry into the exchange rate mechanism of the European monetary system . |
| 22 | Heseltine was able to announce that he already had assurances of support from a hundred MPs when he formally declared his intention to contest the leadership . |
| 23 | The Werner plan , from which that prediction was drawn , was wrecked by events outside Europe — the Nixon shocks and partly the effects of the OPEC increase in the oil price — but no hon. Member seems able to recall that it ever existed . |
| 24 | Even when she was well , I had never been able to relax because I never knew from one day to the next how I was going to find her . |
| 25 | I taught myself to fish the swingtip through reading Ivan 's articles , and from struggling to get a bite on my local stillwater I was able to improve until I actually won open matches there . |
| 26 | We might n't even be able to tell that there ever had been two vehicles . |
| 27 | For our purpose it is important to note that it merely threatened to dent the Treasury ascendancy over economic policy-making . |
| 28 | Mike was waiting for her in the lobby when she came down , and she was pleased to see that he too had dressed as informally as possible in deference to the humidity . |
| 29 | Margaret was pleased to see that she now had Reg 's full attention . |
| 30 | ‘ I was stunned to find that you still looked the same and I was very alarmed . ’ |