Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I stopped occasionally to photograph a design branded upon a distant hillside made up of countless squat semi-circular walls protecting a meagre crop ; or limp onion plants resemblant of hieroglyphs upon a furrowed wall ; or a track which seemed to lead to only more emptiness ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Not long after he contacted me again , said he 'd moved to yet another firm and made a completely different recommendation . |
| 3 | ‘ He came blundering in here this morning . ’ |
| 4 | She really would have preferred a cup of tea , but could n't refuse when they 'd gone to so much trouble . |
| 5 | I listened with fascination to this insider viewpoint , and the moody Miss Brickell suddenly became a real person , not a pathetic collection of dry bones , but a mixed-up pulsating young woman full of strong urges and stronger guilts who 'd piled on too much pressure , loaded her need of penitence and her heavy desires and perhaps finally her pregnancy onto someone who could n't bear it all , and who 'd seen a violent way to escape her . |
| 6 | Even if by chance we happened to conceive of just these members of the series , it is surely not in virtue of that fact that they count as correct continuations . |
| 7 | They said they felt marginalised from almost all television programmes , pointing out that young people 's concerns are rarely covered . |
| 8 | Because women have not had the same historical relation of identity to origin , institution , production , that men have had , women have not , I think , ( collectively ) felt burdened by too much Self , Ego , Cogito , etc . |
| 9 | If a third of the adult population viewed reading with so little enthusiasm , was it any wonder that many children were doubtful as to its worth ? |
| 10 | A few army bell tents were put up quickly , but the marquees remained packed in huge bales while lorries kept arriving with yet more gear . |
| 11 | So the family , we as a family were better off than the majority of er of families er in so far that er er whilst we were a a fair sized family , we did have at least some income , in the form of unemployment pay er that my father received . |
| 12 | The defence argument put paid to yet another proposal in 1924 but in 1929 the Labour Government set up a Committee of Inquiry which concluded that a ‘ double barrelled ’ rail tunnel could probably be built although it would be necessary to drive a pilot tunnel to demonstrate its feasibility beyond doubt . |
| 13 | Zimbabwe skipper Dave Walters and Jenkins then swopped penalties , but having scored 20 points in 15 minutes , Wales went to sleep and had to wait for outside half Adrian Davies to drop a goal with virtually the last kick of the half for their next score . |
| 14 | We had to go in there several times when I was little and mother was sick , and they 'd never let us stay together , so anything could have happened . ’ |
| 15 | Almost the biggest shock of the many I had sustained on my return home was the loss of the social cachet I had enjoyed for so many years . |
| 16 | Everything would have combined to emphasize the fact that she was no longer part of the terrain her ancestors had occupied for so many generations . |
| 17 | He had come across very few others not of the Kind , with that strength of vision . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , on the Right Bank the renewed German endeavour had met with even less success . |
| 19 | This was one U Nu , but not the deeper man , who had searched for so many years for enlightenment . |
| 20 | I repeated and repeated the twenty-third psalm , as I had done in so many kinds of danger before . |
| 21 | In the end Father landed a job that was n't too bad , working as a technical engineer for Marconi 's , whose goods he had bought for so many years . |
| 22 | Being able to say these difficult , and intensely private things to her mother before the funeral was the trigger she wanted to be able to grieve genuinely and begin to feel the loss of her mother , rather than nurse the resentment she had had for so many years . |
| 23 | And people stressing a cost factor as important were relatively likely to say they had had at least some choice between different credit arrangements , whereas people stressing convenience were relatively likely to say there had been only one possibility ( though differences were small ) . |
| 24 | A career diplomat , he had served in the Washington embassy in 1970-83 and as head of the Foreign Ministry 's United States department in 1983-86 , and had participated in nearly all Soviet-US summit and foreign ministerial meetings since 1983 . |
| 25 | Candida Gray , Candida Gray , a name that she had known for as many years as she had known any such names ; she had not read as many of the novels as she ought to have done , but she had read one at least , and that one she actually remembered . |
| 26 | She saw affection and concern in his eyes , but imagined that the love was gone , the intensity of the gaze , that knowingness that she had shared for so many years as they had fought to find this place through the forest . |
| 27 | Your colleagues had gone to so much trouble to organise the party . |
| 28 | But when he and his family got back to their cabin they seemed upset because we had gone to so much trouble . ’ |
| 29 | It followed the track it had followed for so many years , awakened the parties to rage , apathy and contempt in precisely the usual places and ended , as it always did , in a drawn game . |
| 30 | For instance , on the day we moved , while the men were still lurching around with their crates and cardboard boxes , Tod slipped out into the garden-the garden on which he had worked for so many years . |