Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Climbing up to the right and beyond Cow Dub , I followed the beck , dry where it had drained away through the limestone but flowing where the bands of sandstone outcropped , until on the open fell the limestone gave way to glacial moraine and the beck gurgled noisily back down towards Cow Dub . |
| 2 | It was a sort of like a I do n't know what i whether it was erm some sort of a private or it belonged to this Manchester Co-op or something I think it was . |
| 3 | A rather closer look at the diary of military events easily conveys the impression of times of intense activity , followed by periods when little or nothing seemed to occur . |
| 4 | ‘ Is n't that where they found his clothes ? |
| 5 | Is that where it came from ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Is that where you heard the bad words you used just now ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Is n't that where you wanted to go today ? ’ |
| 8 | Was that where she felt ‘ hemmed in ’ ? |
| 9 | This was developed very highly in the Hollywood movies of the Thirties where they attempted to put ‘ colour ’ into the pictures in terms of light and shade . |
| 10 | Springfield 's backup must have been summoned by Larsen , either that or they had decided to move in themselves . |
| 11 | See my dad likes videos and things like that but he wa he , I know he likes aftershave , he likes that Old Spice and that so I thought well I 'll get him something like that or I thought I sort of saw cos I 'm going shopping Saturday , I 'm trying to get it all Saturday if I can . |
| 12 | It 's either that or you 'd no job , and |
| 13 | Either that or you stood on it . |
| 14 | Either that or she 'd got two woollies on . |
| 15 | … it being very narrow where we met it , the Driver of the Chaise in backing his Horses to avoid being drove over overturned his Chaise , but very providentially , blessed be Almighty God for it ! we received very little Injury , Nancys Face was a little bruised . |
| 16 | Wrexham 's Chris Platt was well in contention until he had a triple bogey seven at the 17th where he put his tee shot into bushes and trouble . |
| 17 | One would expect those whose dementia was more advanced or who had more problematic home circumstances to be heavier consumers of community care services , and thus to cost more to sustain at home . |
| 18 | He also warned us that , once we were back in London , we were to be careful where we went , to whom we talked and what we ate and drank . |
| 19 | ‘ And to tell my friends to be more careful where they discussed other people 's affairs ! |
| 20 | She was collecting glasses and plates from all over , slinging the contents in a vile bucket , and Philippa noticed that she was n't particularly careful where she stubbed out the cigarette that dropped a little trail of ash wherever she went . |
| 21 | Each meeting ends with the moneymen all saying things like I 'm in or I want in on this or You got it or Let's do it . |
| 22 | We accept what they say , but if we talk about our homes — my mum said this or I cooked this — they hardly understand what we are saying . |
| 23 | I think they 've either been priced wrong or somebody had |
| 24 | This was the period when admirers of ‘ trad ’ adopted a purist stance , listened rather than danced and frowned on anything slick or commercial or which smacked of the professional dance band . |
| 25 | This compared with 26 per cent of the women without an intimate tie with husband or boyfriend , but who reported a confiding relationship with another person ( seen at least weekly ) , and with 41 per cent of those who had a confidante seen less than weekly or who had no such relationship at all . |
| 26 | With a startled squawk a rook flew from one tree to another where it perched complaining loudly . |
| 27 | On the other hand a child who was brought up to be bilingual in French and English or who had a natural facility for ‘ picking up ’ languages could romp through his spoken French grades and have reached the top by the time he was 16 , while perhaps having achieved lower grades both in written French and in other more literary aspects of the subject . |
| 28 | The justification for this practice was that the dealer who could do business with such clients would thrive in the dealing room proper where he stood a chance of getting reasonable leads . |
| 29 | Obviously , the introduction of exotic taxa and the establishment of trees where few or none existed previously will alter the landscape . |
| 30 | ‘ Is this where you found him ? ’ |