Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerry had seen his face and they got to go and look at the mug shots and all that and er longlegs had been informed across the road because they 'd got er a camera that works and er they got in touch with the , they told the police about it and so they 're going over there to see if it 's been recorded you see . |
| 2 | Little children whose faces had opened like flowers in the nurturing glow of their first year became withdrawn and cried on the way to school . |
| 3 | 5.19 Statutory notices etc To give full particulars to the Landlord of any notice direction order or proposal for the Premises made given or issued to the Tenant by any local or public authority within [ 7 ] days of receipt and if so required by the Landlord to produce it to the Landlord and without delay to take all necessary steps to comply with the notice direction or order and at the request of the Landlord but at the cost of the Tenant to make or join with the Landlord in making such objections or representations against or in respect of any notice direction order or proposal as the Landlord shall deem expedient Seven days may be too short a period , particularly if the notice is served at the premises and not forwarded to the appropriate officer of a tenant company with any great alacrity . |
| 4 | The ‘ enlightened classes ’ failed to appear and respond to a creed forged in their supposed interests : the propaganda of luces could no more create in Spain a bourgeoisie in the French image than the propaganda of free trade , half a century later , could create an English middle class . |
| 5 | And reluctantly MacArthur agreed to come and talk to the president . |
| 6 | fra , ma frame of mind , you got to demand and wait for the answer , even though it might take a minute for the to say erm , erm , oh we use erm , you know , we 've got a , a , a local van that comes and se , like , you know . |
| 7 | He stopped walking and looked at the scrubland now directly in front of them . |
| 8 | I stopped laughing and sat on the floor , back to the wall , legs out straight . |
| 9 | That Nottinghamshire went on working reflects not simply the self-interest of its miners but more importantly the culture that their predecessors ( many of them their ancestors ) helped to create and transmit to the present . |
| 10 | The knight stopped speaking and pointed to the cord tied round Athelstan 's waist . |
| 11 | Dacourt stopped speaking and gaped like a carp . |
| 12 | Palmerston tried to ensure that attachés in the missions to the German courts should at least be able to read German script ; and in the 1840s and 1850s there were efforts to send students of oriental languages from Oxford and Cambridge to Constantinople , where they were to form a new class of oriental secretaries and replace the Greek and Levantine dragomans who had for decades acted as translators and interpreters there . |
| 13 | The movement ‘ to the people ’ in 1874 , when they tried to live and work in the villages of Russia to spread the word and arouse revolution , was heroic but quixotic . |
| 14 | He died last week when his parachute failed to open while filming for the BBC series 999 near Alnwick , Northumberland . |
| 15 | A man wearing a hat he 'd painted and twisted into an unrecognizable shape shuffled along the corridor , pointing upwards with a contorted grimace . |
| 16 | Today he spoke of his ordeal for the first time.Shortly before midnight on Sunday he 'd checked and locked up the pub as normal . |
| 17 | Now it seemed to come and go on the wind . |
| 18 | She 'd searched and searched for the wallet . |
| 19 | Outwardly she had seemed no different — she 'd laughed and joked with the customers , dealt with any business matters competently and efficiently , managed to get things back on to an even keel at the club . |
| 20 | As the light flickered across its surface , the already uncomfortably organic-looking reliefs seemed to writhe and slither in an even more lifelike fashion . |
| 21 | He had laid by his sword , but he had a dagger still upon him , and managed to draw it and slash through the folds that smothered him ; and Norbury and Erpyngham and half a dozen others of his own people came plunging and splashing through the storm to help him out of these ominous grave-clothes . |
| 22 | It came a-looking and banged upon the door |
| 23 | I can … ’ but the words were stopped in him and he seemed to suffocate and gasp with the sense of a power beyond the Cages that he had sensed briefly before . |
| 24 | Consequently , and inevitably , all junior officers were drafted there to do their stint in the overcrowded , overheated and noisy halls of the new airport which seemed to expand and change in a bewildering chaos of new cement and plaster board overnight . |
| 25 | Anna , knowing nothing of this , and battling to come to terms with the violence of her surroundings , while The Friends seemed to expand and achieve by the month , succumbed every so often to the demon envy . |
| 26 | He 'd worked and taught at the Magic Theater in San Francisco ; had therapy at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur with Fritz Perls ; worked in New York with Chaikin and La Mama . |
| 27 | Not since she 'd tossed and turned with a soaring temperature at the start of the glandular fever had she endured such a ghastly night . |
| 28 | And those eyes that seemed to dance and scowl at the same time from beneath their fringe of long dark lashes gave him a restless , unpredictable air . |
| 29 | He liked the forked lightning better than the zig-zag kind and now he was gratified by a second many-branched display that seemed to spring and grow from the river itself , blossoming in the sky above the Kingsbrook meadows . |
| 30 | ‘ Poor Tom would have been so very unhappy if he 'd known of this situation , ’ she 'd sniffed while fumbling for a handkerchief . |