Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Present them with a vision of a world in which meals were eaten at a table instead of on the knees before the flickering screen ; in which conversation was commonplace ; political and social ideas worked out by individuals , not spoon-fed into the mind by paid commentators ; a TV-less world in which we danced and sang and played charades to entertain ourselves or even popped round to the neighbours ; in which our children were not fed visions of death and dead bodies on the daily news , their infant imaginations no longer turned feverish and fearful by the sobs and sorrows of the bereaved ; nor subject to the cruel , disagreeable and frequently morbid fictional fantasies of others — would we not really vote for this ? |
| 2 | If the building is thought to be a temple , however , the stone axe may well be interpreted as having been picked up by someone and deliberately buried within the temple in the Roman period as an offering to the gods . |
| 3 | And if the police had n't investigated him because of that stupid bitch Caroline he 'd have quietly taken what was his and still looked clean . |
| 4 | I mean that the data on spontaneous abortion is so unmistakable that it seems to me that artificially induced abortions are just a continuation with modern technology of something women have always done anyway discriminate against their ab about their offspring , sometimes discriminating against them . |
| 5 | Visits of inspection to the cookhouses and latrines had a squalor about them that scarcely repaid even average keeness . |
| 6 | He could so easily have hurt himself or irreparably damaged the glider but , in fact , he was very lucky and did surprisingly little damage . |
| 7 | A must for the summer garden , producing narrow , sword-shaped leaves and bright yellow lily-like flowers , which although short lived are replaced by a profusion of waiting buds . |
| 8 | Yeah , if I sell at a time when there 's still a recession on and you see somebody has to get my they had a visit perhaps that was somebody that actually bought a house , not she not |
| 9 | Elfman used to boast to anyone who would listen that he was able to auto-fellate with the minimum of effort , making him the envy of every young buck who had tried it for himself and only succeeded in collapsing with a racking backache . |
| 10 | He decided then and there to take the carrion off her and have it back for himself and so leaned out into the void and tilted into the wind towards her far below . |
| 11 | Now introduce the concept of equally distributed equivalent level of income as the per capita amount of the smallest total income which if equally distributed offers the same level of welfare as the original distribution , so that |
| 12 | but I have been led in my experience to believe that they possess a natural intelligence and character which if properly guided and consistently handled should lead them to play a useful part in the synthesis of tribal life in Kenya … as a factor for stability in political development … |
| 13 | Held , refusing the declarations , that a basic valuation prepared by an employee of a building society was an ‘ action taken by the society in relation to ’ the grant of a further advance within section 83(1) of the Act and since it constituted part of the society 's process of administration , such a valuation , if negligently prepared , could amount to maladministration within paragraph 1 ( d ) of Part III to Schedule 12 to the Act ; that , on the documentation used by the plaintiff societies , a house buyers ' valuation prepared by an employee created a contract between the society and the borrower , which if negligently prepared could amount to a breach of the society 's contractual obligation within paragraph 1 ( a ) of Part III to Schedule 12 ; that although the alleged want of due skill and care might relate to matters not affecting the society 's assessment of the adequacy of the security , the valuation was in reality a single process amounting to an action within section 83(1) ; and that , accordingly , the ombudsman had jurisdiction under the scheme set up under the Act to investigate and determine complaints arising out of basic valuations , house buyers ' valuations , and , since there was no relevant distinction in the nature of the contractual relationship , structural surveys by a society 's employee in the same circumstances ( post , pp. 145A–H , 150B — 151A , H — 152A ) . |
| 14 | While Prussia struggled to create a tariff union of German states — the first step on the road to forming a German nation-state — the Western nations were already involved in building up their as yet un-integrated but nevertheless substantial rail networks . |
| 15 | He looked upon himself as absolutely bound to obey the papal decree ; but he was no crusader for the principle which it enshrined . |
| 16 | Vauxhall 's Nova 1.5TD , for instance , is a fast , frugal hatchback with an Isuzu turbodiesel which when properly maintained should last as long as a naturally-aspirated engine . |
| 17 | He decided to say nothing and quietly placed the bird by the gate leading to the Hauxwell 's place , with its head tucked in as though asleep . |
| 18 | The Van Boy must have felt suitably educated , because he said nothing and silently tossed a tennis ball from one hand to the other . |
| 19 | We talked a lot , made love a little , said nothing and never touched each other . |
| 20 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 21 | She was ten years older than me and already married to Jens , himself the youngest son of a neighbouring farmer , without property of his own . |
| 22 | ‘ But in the end the club wanted to keep me and even considered getting Margaret Thatcher involved in the transfer after QPR said no . ’ |
| 23 | You made a fool of me and thoroughly enjoyed doing it ! |
| 24 | Benjamin nodded apologetically to Sir John , beckoned to me and hastily followed . |
| 25 | Reg used every opportunity to take swipes at me and constantly implied that I had lost the confidence of everybody involved with the club . |
| 26 | She would then speak as if talking to herself , but what she said was aimed at me and usually struck to the core of my being , so that I was stunned into silence … |
| 27 | He left nothing of the kind with me and never made any reference to such a document . |
| 28 | He looked at me and then sucked at his pipe again and shrugged his shoulders . |
| 29 | He held them strongly , but was capable of changing them if so persuaded . |
| 30 | Sammy Pike reappeared and joined them and Amiss edged towards them , keeping an eye out for unwelcome observers . |