Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move takes Totten , who will be part-time with the Methil club , back to the Second Division where he originally found the Perth club . |
| 2 | Well , they broke through on about a forty mile stretch Where they really gained ground is up towards Arras , they made about five miles there , and down around St Quentin . |
| 3 | She clung to him as he charged up the stairs and into her bedroom where he unceremoniously dumped her on the bed . |
| 4 | A public-school education led to a secretarial college where she suddenly rebelled , sought work as an artist 's model , entered Soho , quickly becoming an habituée and one of the stars in Muriel Belcher 's galère . |
| 5 | Across the small table in the basement club where they now sat , Rune 's light eyes challenged her statement . |
| 6 | But paragraph ( a ) does not , in my judgment , give any substantive cause of action where none before existed . |
| 7 | Go back to the west coast where you probably came from and join the other vagrants there . |
| 8 | The report published by the Indonesian Government and the action that they subsequently took — for example , against certain military commanders involved in the incident — show that they are not concerned simply with a cover-up . |
| 9 | Her eyes strayed to the card that she still held in her hand and she almost started as she saw , written in plain bold print , a name that had featured with such regularity recently in the headlines of the business section of the local newspaper that she could not fail to recognise it . |
| 10 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |
| 11 | The man 's face had turned black , his eyes were bulging , and at last he crashed to the ground , with such force that he almost shook Fleury off … but Fleury remained dragging on the violin until he was certain the sepoy was dead . |
| 12 | Goaded beyond endurance , she took a wild swing that connected with his shield with such force that it nearly wrenched her arms out of their sockets . |
| 13 | She scuttled over to the far side of the room and had managed to read quite a lot of the letter before Julius came charging after her , taking the paper back from her with such force that it almost ripped in half . |
| 14 | When he released her it was with such force that she almost fell to the floor . |
| 15 | So when my parent says to me , give those two units of parental investment that I just gave you , to , to offspring B I do n't want to , because the benefit to offspring B , or rather the genes I share with offspring B , does n't compensate sate me for the , for the sacrifice . |
| 16 | ‘ I sometimes feel a great sense of loss and disappointment that she never saw me grow up . |
| 17 | ‘ With the result that he really did keep away , ’ Lucy had pointed out . |
| 18 | You would stutter a reply that you just wanted to read some news today . |
| 19 | Behind him he could hear one of the boys mutter that Mr Wilson had gone mad , and another reply that he always had been . |
| 20 | You never really sort of said well was it , was it a slipped disc or is it gone or have you got ta go back for any more tests or anything like that er and bearing in mind that he also said he was keen on sports and he played tennis and so on , you could 've had the opportunity there to say oh have your back problem , back troubles made in difference to you in that area ? |
| 21 | One should always bear in mind that he never went back on his sympathy for the early stages of the Revolution , and his statement in 1821 , at the height of his Toryism , when he was accused of deserting France , has its own indestructible logic : ‘ You have been deluded by places and persons , while I have stuck to principles . |
| 22 | What was fascinating to me at the time , was their naming of teachers whom I also recognised , from familiarity with the five or six schools in that particular area of south Oxfordshire : I could immediately apply a cross-bearing as it were of confirmation that what indeed singled out these teachers was a vividness of personality , a cheerful infectious enthusiasm and an unusual energy and commitment . |
| 23 | Around me , as the pirates and Famlio stared at Gharr , the atmosphere grew so much charged with fury and tension that it almost crackled , like a defective energy field . |
| 24 | At the time of the 1835 emancipation , as also at the cessation of apprenticeship in 1838 , abolitionists enacted rituals of triumph and unity , though it was significant for the future that they now acknowledged differences and , ironically , different abolitionists performed different rituals indicative of unity . |
| 25 | The pub was a two storeyed building , with a stable at the side although I never saw horses there . |
| 26 | He would listen in , showing more powers of concentration than he ever did at work . |
| 27 | He had n't said anything that had given her any indication that he actually cared for her . |
| 28 | At times the yoke of his vocation was almost unbearable , although there is no indication that he ever regretted assuming it . |
| 29 | ( So committed has Kandel been to reductionism as philosophy as well as methodology that he once gave a talk to an audience of psychiatrists with the theme of ‘ Psychotherapy and the single synapse ’ . ) |
| 30 | Hume , himself , recently admitted in an interview that he never wanted the word ‘ Labour ’ in the Party 's name . |