Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [pron] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But oh , the glory and the convenience of skiing in resorts where you step into your bindings and ski down to the lift without setting foot to snow , where you cruise all day on networks so meticulously designed that you have but to descend to find another fan of lifts at your disposal . |
| 2 | He 's forgotten that we did but I 'm not gon na tell him that . |
| 3 | I felt really devastated that we lost and for that reason I have been looking forward to playing in this event again . ’ |
| 4 | He sat where he had sat and she sat where she had sat and he stared and stared at her , eyes bright with lust . |
| 5 | Inside Frances , the cushion of fluid was crystals , her bones ground together , their cartilage dry as rawhide ; her veins were clogged and everything chafed and griped . |
| 6 | ‘ We believe two Somalis were wounded but they fled and two US Army Rangers were slightly wounded , ’ Major David Stockwell said . |
| 7 | ‘ Enjoyed while they lasted and ended by mutual consent when the time came to move on , usually because both the woman concerned and I knew from the start that it was n't going to be a lifelong affair . ’ |
| 8 | er , we 'll get it all sorted , you know what you like , you sit there and you think oh I want it , to get it all sorted before I go and move , it 'll just have to be in a tip for a while . |
| 9 | and , a relationship built up , especially between myself and the surrogate and life was devastated when we parted and my daughter will always know how much her genetic mother loves her and how much I love her obviously . |
| 10 | for whom that I had to decide whether I was going to marry him or give him up and decided I could n't give him up so I married him and was extremely happy and was shattered when he died and I , I , a , it went from you know I , I never real , thought I would be as happy , could be as happy as I was |
| 11 | The current legislation allows benefit to be backdated indefinitely by reason only of a mistake made or something done or omitted to be done by an officer of the DHSS . |
| 12 | I 've often said that we go and have a look |
| 13 | It may be argued that they existed but had been forgotten . |
| 14 | He had it already prepared and he went and fetched the tray . |
| 15 | The fund managers have said that any investors who have suffered because they bought or sold at incorrect prices will be compensated . |
| 16 | Slaves are fed whether they work or not . ’ |
| 17 | If these are collected before they sink and are placed in a jar of water in a cool airy place , they will start into growth much sooner , and , by providing much needed surface shade , can do much to combat the algal growth that is invariably experienced in early spring . |
| 18 | The ‘ rural method ’ entails no separate second fermentation ; it is merely a continuation of the first process , the wines being bottled before it terminates and thus allowing the first fermentation to continue in the bottle . |
| 19 | It had become a very sad sight indeed , but Jack hardly noticed as he turned and stared back down the hill to Sakata , its neat rows of buildings looking like so much Lego . |
| 20 | And yet she was in one of the nicest private rooms in the hospital ; she had a telephone and a television ; her nightgown was a silly frou-frou of frills and spilling lace and on her thin fingers the rings — diamonds and sapphires in platinum — rattled as she clasped and unclasped the sheet . |
| 21 | This is usually easier said than done as they rust and are difficult to find . |
| 22 | Even so , she had meekly done as they wished and taken on a responsibility that was clearly a bit of a burden . |
| 23 | If you 'd done as I asked and left me alone then none of it would have happened . ’ |
| 24 | He has n't done as I did and chopped his house in half . |
| 25 | The plaintiff scaffolder was injured when he fell and was not wearing a safety belt . |
| 26 | And er some of the schemes have been criticized but it was a blessing in a way that we got them done when we did and er we were able to house a lot of people out there and release ground in the centre of the town to be redeveloped and er brought up to modern standards . |
| 27 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |
| 28 | So once you get towards , take a clock in , make sure you pace yourself , and say at the end of that just put in a sort of sentence to make it look as if it 's been finished off Erm , what I usually do when I do an exam is I spend the first five minutes actually looking at the questions because initially you look for the ones that you 've revised and you see but there may be others there , there 're you can do in a slightly different way than the way that they first appear and that might help you quite a bit , although there are no trick questions in this . |
| 29 | In a well-balanced individual , both aspects should be equally , or roughly equally , developed and we suppress or deny either aspect a– the risk of reducing our quality of life . |
| 30 | Perhaps a point was never reached where no more could get in , but they would be pushed and crushed until they died or the sides of the car burst with the pressure of them . |