Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [conj] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without looking up from her work she tells me something she has done or discovered or thought or decided during the day . |
| 2 | Joanne Menzies still looked drawn and strained when she ushered Detective-Sergeant McWhirter into Mr Steen 's office on the Monday afternoon . |
| 3 | In normal adult life most of us would feel insulted and demeaned if the basic value we had as human beings was described by the kind of functional assessments that have been discussed . |
| 4 | Judd saw his own hand , held hovering uncertainly over the heap of treasure , quiver as Stringy 's had done and wondered if that meant he looked as mad as the rest of them did ; and he wanted to say they could have it , that he was opting out and they could divide his share among the three of them and stuff it . |
| 5 | And shall there insert every persons name that shall be wedded christened or buryded And for the sauff ( safe ) kepinge the same boke the parish shale bonde to provide of these comen charges one sure coffer with twoo lockes and keys where of the one to remayne with you and the other with the said wardens , wherein the said boke shalbe laide upp Which boke ye shall every Sonday take furthe and in the presence of the said wardens or one of them write and record in the same all the weddinges , christenyngs and buryenges made the hole weke before , And that done to lay upp the boke in the said coffer as afore . |
| 6 | I go home and people are either getting divorced or remarried and they have n't seen through it all yet . |
| 7 | You know swept and rolled and tarred and |
| 8 | She should have laughed and snuggled and taken kissing only as a passing pleasure . |
| 9 | Mind you , they would have gone and broke if we line them up . |
| 10 | Of all the nurses she had known only Minnie Robinson had remained loved and revered and even now , when she was old and pensioned off , Miss Arabel visited her faithfully and turned to her in complete trust for advice and comfort . |
| 11 | To accept that whatever she had done or promised or performed to maintain her position in Market Square then her choice could only have been that or the workhouse . |
| 12 | If she had sobbed or fainted or begged him , he would probably have given way . |
| 13 | This had flowered and fruited and , although too late to be included in the Dictionary it might be brought into a later supplement because several new plants had been omitted once their initial letter had been passed in the main work . |
| 14 | He had tutted and twitched and tweaked , then proceeded to do more for her than she had thought possible . |
| 15 | When he came to see me , I said that I would write to the chairlady of the health authority , who replied that she was very sorry that this had happened but asked whether the gentleman could prove that the burn marks had been caused by the deposit from the hospital chimney . |
| 16 | He had greased himself in oil and he had cooked and broiled and yearned for the magic hours of noon and six when he could down a life-saving tumbler of gin and lime . |
| 17 | She reached the house in which her father had lived and saw that the door was not quite closed . |
| 18 | I ask that you should pay what I have provided and legated and what I shall provide and legate in codicils . ’ |
| 19 | and we we have tried and tried but you can not light the spark . |