Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | No , he sa , he did , the , happen occasionally went to a neighbour and asked to them to borrow one , he 's not started again |
| 32 | It 's no good just using simple words to describe each step in that argument , if the whole argument gets so convoluted by the time you finish the listener thought , ‘ Well , I understood the bits , but I did n't understand the whole . ’ |
| 33 | Maria shivered and , moving closer to Luke to make room for the couple , she touched his wrist lightly with her fingers , unsure if the impulse to do so sprang from an urge to seek reassurance , or to give it . |
| 34 | Not to do so amounted to a dereliction of duty in the same way that Callaghan 's statement misunderstood the political content of media imagery . |
| 35 | In some areas of Britain local voluntary organizations , or perhaps one of the arms of the public sector services , have become so disheartened by the lack of commitment and enthusiasm on the part of local psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses for developing a new style of service away from their traditional hospital base that they have decided to go ahead and develop a new service without any support from the consultants and hospital staff . |
| 36 | For example , the Treasury 9¾ per cent stock 2002 instanced above stood at a price of £103 ( £103.09375 ) at the close of business on Friday 28 February , 1992 when the running yield could be derived as follows : |
| 37 | Because of shock caused among audiences by this last line , Eliot was persuaded to alter the passage , so that it is clear that shock is only a part of a deeper message which shows how contact with the primitive can renew values of faith , self-sacrifice , and idealism which seem to have become totally atrophied in the world of London cocktail party and Hollywood film . |
| 38 | There was no use pretending it had n't happened : I had wished for a pure Pacific experience , a truly new world experience at the dawning of this day , yet it had become hopelessly muddied with a relic of the old world and the Ocean whose time , we are now supposed to believe , has passed . |
| 39 | This Engels emphatically asserted in The Origin when he argues that communism would mean the end of the family as we know it and the liberation of women . |
| 40 | Unfortunately the canopies are locked by an odd-shaped chunky steel key , there is only one , and it stays firmly zipped in the pocket of Harry 's red flying overalls . |
| 41 | ‘ I still feel somewhat gobsmacked by the way he appointed me . |
| 42 | Shopwatch only started at the beginning of the year but is already proving effective deterring some casual shoplifters . |
| 43 | It has sometimes been suggested that if you feel easily intimidated by an interviewer , and therefore are paralysed by nerves , you should imagine him ? her in a ludicrous situation , such as sitting in the Albert Hall with no clothes on . |
| 44 | Slim women — or those who have successfully been on a diet — often feel deeply disheartened by the fact that diet and exercise alone do not seem to improve these problem areas . |
| 45 | In the upland areas the introduction of the wages boards also led to the decline of hiring fairs and the gradual discontinuance of the practice of ‘ living in ’ . |
| 46 | Yet over most of the world it inevitably came up against social and institutional obstacles which prevented or inhibited it , and in so doing also stood in the way of the other great task which capitalist — or indeed any — industrial development set its landed sector . |
| 47 | But rule also depended on a degree of common purpose between kings and at least a proportion of the secular magnates . |
| 48 | Marrakesh really arrived as a marathon on January 13 when Osmiro de Souza Silva of Brazil , ran alone from 29K to a 2:09:55 ( $12,000 cash ) victory over a respectable field . |
| 49 | At the southern end of the valley where the sky was brighter , a horseman now appeared , his dark mount reined in , its head pulling to one side as it slowed then came to a halt . |
| 50 | Only six out of 15 northbound buses due to run actually appeared on the route . |
| 51 | As the nation became increasingly militarized under the pressure of fighting with China , Japan 's leaders again turned to Japanese traditions and values as sources of national unity . |
| 52 | He feels personally vindicated by the demise of all imperial adventures , the defeat of fascism and the disproof of the fundamental tenets of apartheid . |
| 53 | We can not know — and she was by this time fifty-eight years old to Jack 's thirty-three — whether she felt personally slighted by the change . |
| 54 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 55 | Media use also varied during the week , being heaviest at the weekend . |
| 56 | Kaset also resigned as the chairman of Thai Airways . |
| 57 | On tour in 1988 , Gedge often shouted into the microphone ‘ Status Quo — 25 years in the business , ’ as he and Solowka got down to some mindless guitar boogie . |
| 58 | I felt strangely repelled at the thought of eating meat . |
| 59 | All the talk around him suddenly subsided ; he felt strangely shipwrecked in the silence . |
| 60 | All the 30-something women we knew then seemed about the limit beyond which you went into suits and Burberry raincoats . |