Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I used ter sit at me front door when the weavver was good , an' when it was cold I used ter lay in bed till dinner-time . |
| 2 | Lab work , for example , was a matter of getting the ‘ right ’ answer ; failure to do so resulted in loss of marks . |
| 3 | And she got herself ready for bed and you know just went to bed by herself . |
| 4 | The prejudices had built up over centuries but had become more accentuated since independence in 1948 . |
| 5 | Speed also faded from view in the second half , as did Macallister . |
| 6 | And my father I think just went to school in the Wintertime . |
| 7 | CENTCOM formally came into operation in 1983 . |
| 8 | Finally , in the second edition of his journal of Researches , the observation emerged fully fledged as testimony to Darwin 's theory of convergent behavioural evolution . |
| 9 | In the Fifties the things you bought to throw away ranged from Kleenex to baking tins , from razors with only one blade ( supplied by vending machine ) to watches not worth repairing . |