Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the next day , afore I 'd gotten fettled up — for indeed , miss , I 'd no heart to sweeping an' fettling , an' washing pots ; so I sat me down i' th' muck — who should come in but Maister Weston ! |
| 2 | She has recently completed the Science Foundation Course of the Open University , but has had to postpone further study in the sciences for the time being because changes in Modern Language teaching at the Sixth Form College where she works have consumed so much of her time and energy . |
| 3 | In the present instance however , ( the poems of a certain Mrs. Leapor excepted , who published some 40 years ago ) I discern , I think , more marks of a true poetical talent than I remember to have observed in the verses of any , whether male or female , so disadvantageously circumstanced . |
| 4 | Then I found out that Jim was making all the original pedals as well , so I decided to get rid of all the stuff I 'd been trying to make all these sounds with and just use the original things . |
| 5 | Two years after her conversion to strictness of life , she was sexually attracted to a man she knew well , although she seems to have had just before this a grandiose sense of her own imperviousness to sin . |
| 6 | Although she appears to have taken with her no significant quantity of clothing nor any substantial sum of money it seems certain that she was carrying her passport … |
| 7 | Although you seem to have changed your mind since you fried poor old Ewan , have n't you ? |
| 8 | ‘ It 's an earlier form than you 've seen carved in churches , ’ the old man counselled her . |
| 9 | However , they are not PostScript typefaces and the quality is sometimes a little less than you have grown used to on the laser printer . |
| 10 | ‘ So you want to get rid of her , do you ? |
| 11 | Over the past six months or so you appear to have taken a leaf out of the Aquarian book and aired your grievances in such a manner that you now face the possibility of a complete break from the past , which in turn would alter so much you have built up and established over the years . |
| 12 | Right well you did n't actually get any objections so you couldn't 've handled them , you did n't mention about the prospect contacting the referrals prior to the being made er at the end you did actually bring up did n't you about the , the cricketer , is , is he a batsman then said he was a erm said he was a er all-rounder so you know I 'll , I 'll give you that |
| 13 | Once she 'd got known for being presentable , turning up sober and on time , not leaving early with the spoons and able to tell left hand from right , word got round and she 'd been passed from college to college by grateful manciples . |
| 14 | Once you 've got rid of some of it , why not take another bit , and then at the end of the day let's close the whole damn thing and save everybody a lot of money . |
| 15 | Once you decide to get rid of a Windows application , it 's vital to make copies of any important data you 've created with it to make copies of any important data you 've created with it before embarking on a ‘ slash and burn ’ policy . |
| 16 | Tuesday , more of the same , except she seems to have met Mr Hawick at the House of Commons after work . |
| 17 | There is no shortage of theorizing , of course , but the complexity of human society , the intangibility of cause and effect , make it difficult to test major theories in rigorous conditions or to overturn a consensus view once one has become established . |
| 18 | It was achieved , erm , through reorganisation , it was achieved through careful planning of expenditure , but there was also an element of of luck in that erm , the staff vacancy level that we had pending the reorganisation , was was higher than we had had planned for . |
| 19 | Well she is prepared to admit to more human frailty than we have heard attributed to Mrs T ! |
| 20 | Actually we were n't married at the time , so we had to get married straight away and find some money to buy a house and so on , and Daddy had to give up acting and find a real job , one that brought in a regular income . |
| 21 | ‘ So we decided to get married — and had a wonderful day with the reception at our house and a marquee on the lawn . |
| 22 | Although they appear to have stabilised , we do not expect those markets to settle down until Spring next year particularly with the impact of a weak dollar . |
| 23 | He had to be in Amsterdam next week , he told her , and Rio in November , so they decided to get married in Brussels in the last week of October . |
| 24 | I asked them if once they 'd got rid of the forty percent they could then get it back by dropping the prices , you know , they 've , they 've |
| 25 | But I think that erm once they 'd got started on it they would find it very beneficial in terms of erm improving their kind of over-all general image . |
| 26 | In this sense , separatism does n't address itself to the business of making life better for all women , and is then restricted in large part to acting as a channel for the energy of women once they have become embittered by heterosexism . |
| 27 | I am still surprised , when I consider what loners most illustrators are , that the organisation continues to survive — though it suffers from the fact that too many artists leave once they have become established and feel they no longer need its help so much . |
| 28 | ‘ It is unfortunate that so little is known of Carlisle , Luguvalium ( Carvetiorum ? ) , although it seems to have grown to considerable size and may have exceeded 70 acres ( 28 ha ) . ’ |
| 29 | In such circumstances the state has sought to mitigate the consequences of recession on small firms although it seems to have acted more effectively when the existence of a larger company is threatened . |
| 30 | In such circumstances the state has sought to mitigate the consequences of recession on small firms although it seems to have acted more effectively when the existence of a larger company is threatened . |