Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nibs McGovern met that train every day with his trolley to pick up the papers and the Boland loaves that the shops got for special customers . |
| 2 | It makes the British attitude to planemaking — make it commercial or defence oriented and make it pay PDQ — look plain shortsighted and stupid . |
| 3 | As with Auer 's lace , the verisimilitude was striking and The Times reported that touch alone could convince the beholder that the minutely detailed weeds with their infinitely varied tints were not actual specimens from the sea shore.2 |
| 4 | Liberal Democrat supporters shared that view by about 4 : 1 . |
| 5 | He would n't tell them that the friend did n't exist , that she was dead , and that there was only the house that Mrs Wright visited and put flowers in . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you remember , ’ a typical conversation might begin , ‘ that time back in December of '59 when Waimea was unrideable and Greg Noll caught that wave that must have been thirty-foot plus ? ’ |
| 7 | It is not surprising that a high proportion of A level candidates came and come from such schools . |
| 8 | Family parties of long-tailed ties trilled and acrobat Ed in the willow scrub close by . |
| 9 | Eddie Polland was the winner of the card and pencil contest with a four rounds total of 290 but a year later Barry Brennan bettered that score by nine shots . |
| 10 | Her mouth opened and shut ; then looking at Maggie she said , ‘ You silly daft lump , I thought you were joking and it was Simon you had brought back . ’ |
| 11 | Nisodemus 's mouth opened and shut for a while . |
| 12 | A French study showed that nicotinamide , a member of the B-complex of vitamins that prevents the disease pellagra in man ( see Chapter 13 ) , had some activity against the development of leprosy in rodents . |
| 13 | Recently an open pilot study showed that fluticasone proprionate , a topically active corticosteroid of low systemic bioavailability after oral administration , helped patients with mild to moderately active Crohn 's disease . |
| 14 | Tilda loved that smell , and stretched her nostrils wide . |
| 15 | He is telling the church to stick to its principles and not get side tracked or become hypocritical . |
| 16 | Valerie shuddered and set the coffee-pot down on the white wrought-iron table . |
| 17 | ( Ms Obholzer blocked that exit by telling him that domestic gas in Vienna was now non-lethal . ) |
| 18 | Schellenberg shivered and put it back in the envelope . |
| 19 | And after after he came and settled , my three brothers went and dig dig the graves in the old Llaneilian church you know . |
| 20 | While O'Neill and his supporters represented that visit as the Republic s de facto recognition that the North did exist as a separate entity and that doing necessary economic business with the North meant the Republic attenuating its claims to the territory of Ulster , the conservative Protestants saw it as an horrendous betrayal of the history and sacrifice of Ulster Protestants . |
| 21 | The Lloyds won that encounter , though love deserted both partnerships in the end . |
| 22 | Mr Geddes said that counsel for Lothian and Tayside had advised that a referendum could be held within certain legal parameters . |
| 23 | Mrs McRobert said that Say continued to threaten to take his own life , blaming his wife 's decision to leave him for his predicament . |
| 24 | ‘ Vauban wanted that attack , ’ Benjamin muttered . |
| 25 | ‘ the simple facts which the court has to find are whether the defendant 's conduct in fact prevented the police from carrying out their duty , or made it more difficult for them to do so , and whether the defendant intended that conduct to prevent the police from carrying out their duty or to make it more difficult to do so . ’ |
| 26 | Roberts concluded that KMAG itself had operated successfully without internal disputes and that morale was good . |
| 27 | Also , the height of the head-dress proportionately lowered the position of the face which could make the drawing imbalanced and reduce the figure , thus losing the detail . |
| 28 | On the basis of Mr Freeson 's letter , SAVE 's solicitors advised that SAVE should take out an action for mandamus , a court order to force a minister to do what he is obliged to do under statute . |
| 29 | In January 1978 , the Lord Chancellor announced that Judge Neil McKinnon had said that he wished not to preside in future over cases involving racial questions ; and that this wish would be given effect to . |
| 30 | Most reformers admitted that entail was a social and political necessity if the nobility were to survive with decoro . |