Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slipping tiles or slates may indicate a more serious condition , of ‘ nail sickness ’ , where the nails securing the tiles to the wooden battens have become rusted through or fatigued . |
| 2 | He fondled the ears and the dog turned , whipped his strange long tall about and licked the hand quickly . |
| 3 | I 'm finding something totally wrong with and got shot of it and then things have been |
| 4 | But Wilson was afraid to and advanced instead towards the bed , thinking to offer a drink or make a compress for her forehead . |
| 5 | She did n't mean — I think — that Richard and I were not kind to her , only that she did not ‘ come first ’ with either of us , and she was a woman who needed to be made much of and fussed over . |
| 6 | In parallel with this study , a survey was undertaken by Lending Services to establish the current views of Scottish libraries on the Scottish Fiction Reserve ( which is separate from and arranged differently from the English fiction reserves ) . |
| 7 | Even the House of Commons stepped in and denounced Middlesbrough for attempting to buy their way out of the relegation zone . |
| 8 | Young John Lucas , who lived hard by and sat on Professor Ramsey 's head to recite Greek verbs , heard stories from his father of Ramsey taking on atheists in the university in public debate and wiping the floor with them . |
| 9 | The shots were going to look terrific , but this was ridiculous — the very thing I had been cynical about and did not wish to do I was doing ; carrying a bike both up and down a mountain . |
| 10 | Rystrom was leading the field by a shot at 11 under and needed a par four for his first European Tour victory . |
| 11 | Be a pal , Kate , and slip me the copy of Gay News you hide under your desk because I do n't allow it in the library , talk about work , Kate , discuss how we spend £5000 on economics books for the university libraries , tell me about how you 're stopping the students thieving my favourite art books , but please for God 's sake , Kate , do n't be difficult , do n't talk about imperialism and marxism and feminism , I 've heard it all before and said it all myself , twenty years ago before I had a wife and children to support . |
| 12 | Professional musicians are mostly a cynical lot — they 've heard it all before and played it all before too . |
| 13 | These are first-person descriptions of social events , written by an individual who was involved in or witnessed those happenings . |
| 14 | In the 1920s , an uncle founded the Barrandov film studios that were to have their finest hour with the Czech New Wave of the Sixties , and his father was responsible for and owned , among other buildings , the Lucerna block in the heart of the city which has been part of the life of most Pragers , with its remarkable collection of art-deco restaurants , bars , cinemas and concert hall . |
| 15 | However , if I actually wanted to come along and learn some English — I did ‘ O ’ level English , I enjoyed it immensely , but then I did science in the sixth for and went on to a science career — can I come and study English at your school ? |
| 16 | Cases of the former kind will be informative , and constitute an important contribution to scientific knowledge , simply because they mark the discovery of something that was previously unheard of or considered unlikely . |
| 17 | Accurate information about epilepsy is essential to avoid the perception that it is something to be ashamed of or feared . |
| 18 | He still insisted he had done nothing to be ashamed of and said he had been cleared of wrongdoing by his ‘ constant friend ’ Mr Major . |
| 19 | Despite Bob 's protestations that he was staying in the Presidential Suite , was trying to avoid fans , and was actually the ‘ BAWB DYLAN ’ , the callow youth grabbed him by the scruff of his ketchup-stained hooded to and sneered , ‘ Oh yeah , and I 'm the Prime Minister Of Ireland , so I am ’ . |
| 20 | It seemed sad to see the old place decaying , uncared for and neglected . |
| 21 | They offered me soup I was desperate for but took no notice of , asked me questions I answered with a catatonic silence and a stare . |
| 22 | Bruno de Bayser attracted a lot of attention , albeit no buyer , for a magnificent FFr 1.2 million ( £123,700 ; $215,250 ) red chalk drawing of a young woman by Fragonard a deliberately eye catching piece to show what the gallery is capable of but did sell ten works including three female portraits by Dunker , Jeaurat and Quesnel for under FFr 100,000 ( £10,300 ; $18,000 ) . |
| 23 | The buck thrashed and spat and made a high keening noise I did n't think rabbits were capable of and beat its legs on the ground . |
| 24 | But I would hope to reinscribe all of this knowledge within Gide 's narratives of sexual liberation without surrendering or denying their affirmations — I was about to say tenderness — and to do that in part by acknowledging that it is a knowledge implicit in or enabled by Gide 's own transgressive crossing of some forbidden boundaries . |
| 25 | ‘ The directors of Falkirk Football Club were aware of and approved the application for the cards . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ The directors of Falkirk Football Club were aware of and approved the application for the cards . |
| 27 | Tyndale was always aware of and resigned to his likely fate . |
| 28 | There are some unavoidable costs er on that account , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which result in extra costs on the engine side , are the customer 's liability , erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think , from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 29 | Erm , but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment than we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non common and we have had to take a larger share of the cost of those equipments than originally planned . |