Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course I did n't say anything , but I must have reacted in some way and it got through to him , because he seemed more relaxed from that point on . |
| 2 | Unfortunately the two verbatim reports of what was said slightly disagreed with each other . |
| 3 | He had a bad squint anyway , but now his two eyes seemed completely dissociated from each other and wandered restlessly round different comers of his head , apparently quite out of control and enjoying their surprising liberty . |
| 4 | ‘ You are quite sure that Riddle never came to this house ? ’ |
| 5 | Lack of space in which to build laterally resulted in this characteristic Edinburgh townscape of early tower blocks , often with additional lower floors invisible from the street , clinging to the cliffs and reached through narrow wynds , vennels and closes overshadowed by the dark flanks of buildings stained by the smoke of those ‘ Auld Reekie ’ years . |
| 6 | Down here they 're Catholics ; bit more relaxed about that sort of thing . ’ |
| 7 | Labour also moved towards more concern for the consumer , towards an acceptance of the need for legal curbs on the power of the unions , and the party 's need to confirm itself as the defence of the law and order sought by working-class citizens . |
| 8 | Sometimes when groups of horses get mixed up a foal may seem to get irrationally fixated on another horse . |
| 9 | Is it not possible that these few exceptional individuals are , in fact , the normal ones and the rest of us have somewhere deviated from this path of health ? |