Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well it got just eased of a little bit and I thought oh well I 'd make it , so I hopped up to get me erm pension erm and I just got down here when it started again and I came around the front from there and I came around the front I was soaking |
| 2 | However , the group should not be too large as this can be threatening , and people may not feel sufficiently relaxed in a large group to make a contribution . |
| 3 | Support also grew for a new political movement , the environmentalists or Greens . |
| 4 | ‘ The man who telephoned certainly spoke with a foreign accent , ’ Charlotte pointed out . |
| 5 | There were regular travellers whom they came to recognise , people who crossed the forest three or four times a year , foremen in charge of the great waggons of building-stones , or carters with consignments of wheat from the eastern cornlands , or drovers with herds of cattle or flocks of sheep … these last never ventured without a large escort . |
| 6 | Quite a few of the ‘ cricket is boring ’ brigade of know-alls came to may house for Sunday tea , and went away entranced by a brilliant finish involving the last-minute heroics of a David Bairstow or an Eddie Barlow . |
| 7 | Labour also pointed to a significant north-south divide on new jobs , with the north having lost 330,000 jobs since 1979 , and the south having gained 1.1 million . |
| 8 | The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego . |
| 9 | SCI-FI buffs yesterday sat through a seven-hour viewing of all three Alien films , starring Sigourney Weaver , at a Swansea cinema . |
| 10 | Comforting images of Sir Len batting still fell like a warm velvet hood over Yorkshire eyes . |
| 11 | However , N. lapillus is thought to have arisen from one of the Pacific species and not the other way round ( see p. 338 ) , so the 13 form probably arose from a 30 form by reduction . |
| 12 | Mr Major , reading from briefing notes , said : ‘ I believe the ex-convener at Timex said those dismissed never called for a sit-down demonstration and do not sponsor violence . |
| 13 | The biker and his bike got absolutely plastered in a green slimy substance . |
| 14 | Hourcade also saw as a second feature of Cubist painting the organization of the whole surface in terms of interpenetrating or interacting planes : ‘ The fascination of the paintings lies not only in the presentation of the main objects represented , but in the dynamism which emerges from the composition , a strange , disturbing dynamism , but one that is perfectly controlled . ’ |
| 15 | The three years stretching ahead seemed like a long time , then , worth buying a little house in Rummidge for ( Robyn 's father lent her the money for the deposit ) rather than paying rent . |
| 16 | The irony has often been noted that the imposition of legislature controls actually resulted in a dramatic increase in immigration from the Caribbean and the Indian sub-continent , as people attempted to beat the ban , this severed the previously close connections between employment opportunities and migration to Britain . |