Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In carefully structured interviews on the concept of God with three and four-year old children she found that if she began by asking them to distinguish between objects which were man-made and ones which were natural and then to speculate about origins in each case , a majority of the responses referred to the natural objects being made by God or an unknown power ( almost half and half responses on this ) . |
| 2 | Katharine found that as she got into the rhythm , so the changes improved . |
| 3 | For example , the experimental Peckham Health Centre ( opened in 1926 in the London suburb of Peckham as a community centre dedicated to the study and maintenance of the conditions necessary for health ) found that when it re-opened after the War only about half the original members ' families remained in the area . |
| 4 | Shortly after his arrival he got together a conference of Anglo-Burmans , who agreed that when they returned to Burma they would ally themselves more closely with the people of the country rather than as exclusively with the British side of their heritage as they had tended to do in pre-war days . |
| 5 | then asked that if you know of anyone who should receive flowers from the Society please could you tell . |
| 6 | Shaunagh revealed that before he proposed to her , he asked her if she believed in divorce . |
| 7 | On the other hand , it might he argued that when he moves from the concept of impersonal truth to the concept of a personal God , he is distinguishing , in traditional Advaitin fashion , between higher and lower levels of truth or reality . |
| 8 | Er I think I learnt that when I went to the meeting of the South East Croquet Federation earlier in the year . |
| 9 | He had long ago noticed that if you stared at a customs officer when going out through the green channel , the customs officer stopped you . |
| 10 | Jackie Stewart stated that when he contributed to ‘ professionalizing ’ the sport ; drivers continued in his wake , creating an adversarial relationship between those who drove and risked their lives and those who lived , on sponsor money , high on the hog and risked little but their reputations . |
| 11 | In response , President Jaruzelski of Poland declared that while he approved in principle the removal of Soviet forces from Poland , this should be deferred until agreement on a new European security system had been reached and specifically until the position of a united Germany had been clarified . |
| 12 | He vowed that when they returned in the summer he would take her for a holiday . |
| 13 | The other half of this group ( about a quarter of the entire sample ) either rejected the Authority 's recommendations entirely or claimed that although they agreed with them in principle they were prevented from implementing them by unsuitable classroom conditions or other school circumstances . |
| 14 | A recent national survey by a leading High Street chain store showed that when it comes to Merseystyle , it 's pinstripes for the day and the ‘ tarty ’ look at night . |
| 15 | A recent national survey by a leading High Street chain store showed that when it comes to female Merseystyle , it 's pinstripes for the day and the ‘ tarty ’ look at night . |
| 16 | From a single room in Kingston-upon-Thames which he rented and where he lived with llya , he repaired watches and clocks . |
| 17 | Yes ; and that 's what it was ; a badge of manhood ; because you sensed that before you went into the mine , because you were wearing the moleskin trousers . |
| 18 | I figured that if I asked for a transfer I 'd either get a rise or would be able to work out a better deal for myself if I went elsewhere . |
| 19 | I discovered that when I reported to the House that hundreds of young people in the London borough of Newham had no jobs or YT places . |
| 20 | I do not know if they talked or if they went to bed together on that first night . |
| 21 | He went to the US because ‘ Goldsmith decided that if you wanted to be a capitalist the UK and France were not the places to be ’ . |
| 22 | The bell boomed as though it came from the bowels of the earth . |
| 23 | He 'd made major strides in establishing the kind of company he wanted , which was n't the kind of company David wanted , and I think David saw that when he got to New York . |
| 24 | Secondly , Woolwich feared that if it failed in its legal arguments it might incur penalties . |
| 25 | Secondly , Woolwich feared that if it failed in its legal arguments it might incur penalties . |
| 26 | But she feared that when she returned to work at the unit , the problems she had complained about would still be there . |
| 27 | This year we 've restricted it to primary , partly because we felt that 's where the enthusiasm was , and partly , if people wo n't mind me saying so , to keep out the computer science specialists — we felt that , you know , we did n't want a club for boffins or for the experts , we wanted a club and we felt that if we started at the primary end , where there was n't a lot of expertise , we would probably be of more use . |
| 28 | Furthermore , the DUC also realized that the mining had to be prevented by preventing prospecting and not waiting to begin opposition with the planning applications for the mining itself : ‘ We always felt that if it came to an actual application for mining that we would lose . |
| 29 | Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife |
| 30 | A deaf therapist said : ‘ They felt that if I wanted to be on the course , I 'd got to manage the same as everyone else . |