Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got to go look for work tomorrow . |
| 2 | The response above would mean that the pupil found using computers in school very exciting , quite interesting and useless for girls . |
| 3 | The pact also involved ordering modifications in policy notably in the matter of price rises . |
| 4 | I tried to draw G.P. from memory again today . |
| 5 | Crosby tried to land Porter on loan earlier in the season and the 26-year-old — transfer-listed this week — said he would welcome a return to his home-town club . |
| 6 | ‘ We tried to save money by building economically , but it has cost us more in the long run . |
| 7 | He 'd asked Amanda to lunch once , then again , and finally he had sounded her out , not minding the way she 'd sized him up , considering . |
| 8 | He dropped his pack , unbuckled his sword and propped it against the wall , then turned to rake Isabel with eyes as sharp as the wicked-looking blade behind him . |
| 9 | Two males of the very rare golden-headed lion tamarins arrived to form pairs with females already received from Jersey Zoo . |
| 10 | Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania . |
| 11 | The ancient Egyptians had no compunction in substituting glass or faience for natural stones , the Byzantines explored the possibilities of enamel and the Chinese began to produce pearls by culture as early as the thirteenth century , a process which in the hands of the Japanese first brought fine pearls to the new mass market . |
| 12 | She began practising midwifery in London around 1610 and was licensed by the bishop of London before 1634 . |
| 13 | They also decided to levy duty in Poland rather than in the Free City . |
| 14 | It reminded her of the river bank where Pa and the boys went to cut rushes at weekends so that Ma and Billy could work all week . |
| 15 | The general new terms he , agreed to pay $10m in cash now . |
| 16 | If you did get economies of scale then we would n't see small , erm , small independent producers right we , we 'd see a , an increase in the concentration of the industry , like we have witnessed in virtually every other sector |
| 17 | My contract ran until two weeks before my son Adam s Barmitzvah and we planned to spend Christmas in Massachusetts then drive down to New Haven to begin re-rehearsing for our American opening at the Long Wharf Theatre . |
| 18 | For Islington this meant that in addition to taking over the day-to-day running and management of the pre-school , school and adult educational facilities in its area , the borough had to provide resources in areas previously funded by ILEA , London-wide . |
| 19 | Charlotte had telephoned Derek from Boston late on Friday night to ask if he could meet her off the plane at Heathrow on Saturday morning . |
| 20 | What had attracted Alan to Carolyn initially , and reinforced his interest as he got to know her , was her painful honesty . |
| 21 | When I went into prison I had mixed feelings for people outside — I hated them , I felt they had rejected me , they 'd left me alone to just get on with it . |
| 22 | He had met women like Brenda before . |
| 23 | ‘ Gentleman , Jim Almonds , immensely tall and a little less boisterous than some of the others , had seen action at Tobruk together with Pat Riley and Jock Lewes . |
| 24 | He ran past the chip shop where he had had coffee with Benny only last night , past the newsagents ' , the sweet shop , the pub and Paccy Moore 's cobbler 's shop . |
| 25 | At least the newspaper 's editorial columns served to remind me that Geneva had become part of Switzerland only in the previous year . |
| 26 | He had left things to others too long , and his sovereignty was in danger of being slighted . |
| 27 | But the tension in the atmosphere had nothing to do with the events which had taken place on board earlier that day . |
| 28 | The growth of German industry , the flight from the land , the Ostflucht and the ending of serfdom had all broken the bonds of the Prussian feudal system ; had caused a massive upheaval in terms of social and geographical mobility ; had caused a radical change and development in German class- and national consciousness , and had created problems of identity deep within the German consciousness , precisely because they took place much later than in the west European nations . |
| 29 | Chris Morris told me that the other group had got caught in Basra because they had lost touch with reality briefly and got careless . ’ |
| 30 | There was also a mathematician there from the university who John has known for about thirty years and a young man from Rome , maybe the daughter 's boyfriend , who John also knew , as he , the young man , is the son of a scientific contact of John 's in Rome and the said Dave had sent son to John about two years ago to discuss what university course the son should do and where . |