Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulled the shirt on but made no effort to button it . |
| 2 | They should have got the solicitors in and said ‘ look you 've no rights to have been here , you walked on this common land without any permission at all , you built these places without you 've got cars park and everything ’ , and now I listen to the story where the council says they 're going to run it etc. etc and etc , well what the people want , they want it cleared up , they want it back to where it was , we do n't want somebody running another business out there , this is the idea of getting him off . |
| 3 | The tennis equipment specialists , Head , had brought some racquets and accessories along and had also set up a ‘ speed-gun ’ to record service speeds . |
| 4 | Visitors young and old let their hair down and enjoyed the entertainment , which ranged from clowns and bouncy castles to computer games and a disco . |
| 5 | Robert patted his hair down and tried to formulate a few opening remarks . |
| 6 | In fact , at the Gardener Centre a few months after I took after we did a workshop which Radio Brighton took part in and came up and gave a class in terms of how to make the most out of your local radio station , and that kind of thing we really need to develop even further . |
| 7 | She looked at them for a moment with pleasure and then set the bucket down and turned to Murphy . |
| 8 | Bardsley put his teacup down and said in a melancholy voice , ‘ I was thinking of taking him into partnership , but business has n't been that good lately . |
| 9 | Then , seemingly not in any hurry to state his business and be away , he put his briefcase down and queried , ‘ But you are expecting someone tonight ? ’ |
| 10 | He put the guitar down and went on with his story . |
| 11 | Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing . |
| 12 | In Kinvig v Holland Hannen & Cubbitts [ 1977 ] CLY 373 an interesting situation arose because the plaintiff failed to beat a payment in but had his damages increased on appeal , although still not so as to bear the amount that the defendant had paid into court . |
| 13 | He put the chains down and stood up . |
| 14 | Springfield slid the aerial down and directed a relieved grin at the quizzical expressions on the faces of his watching companions . |
| 15 | She did n't answer , just put her foot down and sent the Cortina faster and faster through the night . |
| 16 | Doyle put his foot down and drove straight at the men . |
| 17 | I should have just put my foot down and knocked him over . |
| 18 | If he actually put his foot down and said , ‘ No , I think that 's ridiculous ’ , everyone shut up and listened , and I feel that this was the first time that he realised that he did have the powers of leadership , not only on stage but also off stage . ’ |
| 19 | After a year or two of keeping house for Hugh , she put her foot down and said it was ridiculous not to use her money . |
| 20 | Er , and I mean , as was conventional in those days , you educate , your sons went to school and you try and , educated your girls at home , but the , the aunt put her foot down and said she would n't do it . |
| 21 | He put his foot down and roared away . |
| 22 | Muttering very unscientific speculations in a number of alien languages about the car 's origins and usefulness , the Doctor kept his foot down and did his best to avoid the holes in the road . |
| 23 | Even though Stevens still needed Dean for a couple more shots , the young punk put his foot down and tore along Highway 66 at 85 miles an hour , heading for a sports car race at Salinas . |
| 24 | He put the chart down and picked up one of the books . |
| 25 | Sheldukher set the Cell case down and walked slowly about . |
| 26 | Sara walked beyond the crowd and put her cases down and waited . |
| 27 | to make sure they 're alright then they switched the telly on and fetched a couple of , the adult programme . |
| 28 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 29 | Quiss bellowed ; he turned the attendant upside down and plonked its head into the bucket it had been carrying . |
| 30 | ‘ I was raised on a farm , ’ she said , and she took the duck from Angelica and efficiently flipped it upside down and twisted its neck . |