Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The confidential report , The Philippine Poor : What is to be Done says about 30 million Filipinos , out of the country 's 56 million population live in ‘ absolute poverty , in the sense of having an income that did not enable them the satisfy basic needs ’ . |
| 2 | He examined himself from head to foot , assessing without vanity the beauty that had once given him an honest pleasure , and he marked without fear the changes that moved in upon him now daily . |
| 3 | Tories , long , short and tall , queued with the stoicism that had once made us the envy of the world . |
| 4 | She managed to manoeuvre into the remaining space and got out to give somebody a piece of her mind . |
| 5 | He pulled up at the bridge and got out to show me the concrete cancer . |
| 6 | She watched , round-eyed , as several men-at-arms , pikes in hand , marched by on their way through the gate , and tried not to imagine herself a prisoner in their charge . |
| 7 | Anne raised her hands in a placatory gesture and came across to give her a comforting hug . |
| 8 | ‘ UNCLE ! ’ she squealed , and rushed over to give him a big hug . |
| 9 | The doorbell rang a few minutes after she had opened the lid of her case and returned downstairs to make herself a cup of tea . |
| 10 | He could not interpret the hand gestures and did not know what the offworlder was thinking . |
| 11 | People got in and out of the lifts and did n't give him a second glance . |
| 12 | You did n't do the work at all and did n't give me the book either . |
| 13 | Needless to say , I did n't buy the memory expansion and did n't give myself a Christmas present . |
| 14 | ‘ Bobby Moore and Jimmy Armfield , former England captains , were at the match and did n't see it the way Souness did . |
| 15 | and because she was in Mustique and had n't bought me a birthday present she made sure that there were two Gardenia plants at the party that night she bought me . |
| 16 | He had not provided water to wash the feet and had not given him the traditional greeting of a kiss ( Luke 7:44–45 ) . |
| 17 | Perhaps , they said , he was married or engaged and had not told me the truth about himself . |
| 18 | He also played cricket , and had already earned himself a bad reputation by smashing two windows in the village . |
| 19 | Brackenbury was kindly , and had always shown them the courtesy due to their rank — and himself as their ally . |
| 20 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 21 | D O yeah and ended up getting me a silly , puny , tiny little thing ! |
| 22 | But Mother must have known how precious dollies were to me and set about making me a black one taking the pattern from my old one , which I called Cuddles . |
| 23 | We just threw all the names into a big data base and sat back to see what the computer threw up . ’ |
| 24 | When the botanical writer John Worlidge described it in 1676 , he called the fruit ananas , a Brazilian dialect word , but went on to call it a ‘ fruit like a pineapple but much bigger ’ . |
| 25 | But did n't give me no moneys . |
| 26 | A newcomer to the political scene , whether lord or man , could not hope to operate outside this existing network , but had instead to find himself a place within it . |
| 27 | A newcomer to the political scene , whether lord or man , could not hope to operate outside this existing network , but had instead to find himself a place within it . |