Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was because Mrs Strawson was five minutes late — behaviour he made no demur at , though he would have refused to see a National Health patient who failed to turn up on time — that he had picked up the Standard and seen that paragraph . |
| 2 | A GRIEVING family has hit out at witnesses who failed to turn up at the trial of a man accused of the attempted murder of their son . |
| 3 | Villa 's contribution to Walker 's celebrations was their worst defensive display of the season and an embarrassing individual performance by England Under-21 international Ugo Ehiogu , who failed to live up to the big pre-match build-up given him by Ron Atkinson . |
| 4 | It was the second major blow in a week for Sampras , who failed to live up to his top seeding in Paris when he lost in the quarter-finals of the French Open . |
| 5 | It was the second major blow in a week for Sampras , who failed to live up to his top seeding in Paris when he lost in the quarter-finals of the French Open . |
| 6 | He also criticizes other ministers and Parliament in general who failed to speak out against these developments . |
| 7 | Kayersbridge Farm in Hurst , Berkshire , was making its second appearance at auction : auctioneer Gary Murphy had sold it in December for £262,000 to a bidder who failed to come up with the money . |
| 8 | Unlike Schleiermacher , Hegel had a large number of followers who sought to carry on from the point he had reached . |
| 9 | Whatever the world had done to the little wide-eyed innocent who got eaten up by a bad wolf in the big city , it had n't taught her much . |
| 10 | It would always be the partner with a wife and kids who got shot down in the line of duty , giving his bachelor buddy the chance poignantly to break the news to his loved ones . |
| 11 | ‘ Our friend who got knocked down by a car , Mr Nowak , has fallen into a bad coma and he 's on the critical list . ’ |
| 12 | And one man who seemed to go on for years was Cecil Dunford or " Slap " as he was known , an active man in all his pursuits in the village . |
| 13 | We had turned off the main passageway into a narrow corridor leading to the stairs of our room , when our way was suddenly blocked by two savage creatures who seemed to step out of the darkness . |
| 14 | They turned a corner and Corbett had to hide his trembling at the appearance of the small , squat , one-eyed man who seemed to rise out of the darkness before them . |
| 15 | On top of her contribution to household expenses she had unobtrusively helped her mother by buying necessities for her brothers , who seemed to grow out of clothes and shoes by the week . |
| 16 | We finished our shift at 8 and he was going at 9 , but at 8 , instead of the usual people who came to take over from us , the managing director of the company and his next-door neighbour came in their golfing clothes to pick up whatever tip was being given and we were told to push off . |
| 17 | The day when the search guards were given orders to act roughly , and the little R.A.S.C. captain who came running out of the block with his mouth still bleeding from a blow with a rifle butt . |
| 18 | While waiting , she gazed solemnly at the sinister Bridge of Sighs a few yards away and thought of the prisoners who 'd gazed out of its thickly grilled windows , looking for the last time on the beauties of Venice before they were incarcerated — or executed for causing the displeasure of powerful nobles . |
| 19 | But I spent a few bob buying drinks for a couple of old OSS types who 'd turned up in their London station and they took pity on me and let drop the codename : Winter Garden . |
| 20 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 21 | The South Sussex team was also more than compensated by the rock solidarity of a boy called Paul Hedley at back , and the dazzling Sherwood brothers , Randolph and Merlin , who 'd pulled out of high goal polo for a fortnight to piss it up with the Pony Club . |
| 22 | Hounded to her death by a cruel mother-in-law , neglected by her husband … the same husband who 'd carried on with a woman when she was hardly cold in her grave . |
| 23 | Women passengers who 'd nodded off in full make-up emerged with faces crumpled and ankles swollen . |
| 24 | She had no sympathy for the rich , spoiled girl who 'd walked out of her room and disappeared . |
| 25 | But she was always there when he came back from real or imagined expeditions , not like his father who 'd walked out after a drunken row one night . |
| 26 | She thought she could in the end be legitimized , be more than just the girl who had married the first man who came along in order to get away from home : daughter of a mother who 'd shacked up with her own mother 's boyfriend at that own mother 's unconscious behest — and had thereby had her life negated forever . |
| 27 | And even those captives who 'd got back to Danu , the town I mean , had been merely mice — helpless and squeaking — rolled this way and that as the cat pleased . |
| 28 | Meanwhile the argument between the vegetarians and the farmers over who 'd chickened out of the original challenge goes on . |
| 29 | I married Melanie , if I 'm honest , because she was the only one who 'd held out for a wedding-ring . ’ |
| 30 | He took great care to have his children brought up as members of his Church , though eventually all three who survived went over to that of their mother . |