Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had a hand pressed against the wall for support , and her hard tone and blunt words did n't fool Belinda into thinking she did n't care . |
| 2 | His words did not make sense at all . |
| 3 | It should be noted that the Guidelines do not form part of the Code and are not enforceable under the Bye–Laws of The Engineering Council . |
| 4 | At the Angel Road rail bridge on the A406 the cost of remedial work is put at £1.2 million , partly because the department did not install water-proofing until 1983 , about 15 years after the problems were identified . |
| 5 | This success in constitution-making did not bring success for the Virginia Company ; Sandys was able to keep up emigration , but death and discouragement meant the population hardly rose above 1,000 . |
| 6 | Such a clause in a contract to supply building materials to a building contractor did not exclude liability for damages payable by the contractor to sub-contractors as a result of delay in delivery ( Croudace Construction Ltd v Cawoods Concrete Products Ltd [ 1978 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 55 ) . |
| 7 | Preoperative radiotherapy did not prolong survival in oesophageal cancer . |
| 8 | Torrington 's mishandling enabled the enemy to drive a wedge between the English and Dutch ships and by 1 pm the former were in shameful retreat , a disaster only being averted when the wind suddenly dropped , though Torrington did not drop anchor until safely within the Thames . |
| 9 | The Greater York study did not designate Skelton as an area for expansion until two thousand and six , and no proposal exists in other plans for the making of an inset into the greenbelt on the basis of the need for expansion . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , it is clear enough that the realities of pre-war football do not find agreement with postwar nostalgia . |
| 11 | But these signals did not reach AFHQ until the morning of the next day , 15 May , long after Robertson had sent his response to McCreery 's AC/189 which had only asked for " immediate steps " to be taken over the approach of Army Group E , and which had made no specific reference to Croats . |
| 12 | At the same time , the shake-out of British industry did not gather momentum before the late 1970s . |
| 13 | The Squigs do n't like daylight at all , and quickly become maddened by the sun . |
| 14 | This mis-demeanour did not debar Wright from election as ale-taster at the same court , and constable the following year . |
| 15 | Davies first confirmed that intruders do usually lose contests over territories . |
| 16 | All the nodes were manufactured and all but one was delivered ; however , the parties did not finalise agreement on the price or the terms to govern the contract and S retained the final node at its factory , pending agreement . |
| 17 | For the record , Stephanopoulos insisted the president did not pay £130 for the haircut because the president and his family have a personal service contract with the Beverly Hills hairdresser to the stars . |
| 18 | Some speakers do indeed produce utterances in the expectation that hearers will recover a specific set of propositions . |
| 19 | It should be pointed out , however , that the results of the Forster and Olbrei experiment do not provide evidence for a constant effect of syntactic analysis since a correlation coefficient of.65 accounts for less than 40 per cent of the variance in processing times . |
| 20 | But Britain and the Austrian Habsburgs did not follow suit until 1742 , and France and Spain not until three years after that . |
| 21 | Councillors decided to uphold Mr Sprayson 's appeal because they said his action did n't put children in danger . |
| 22 | Fluent readers do occasionally have problems with this . |
| 23 | Early reconstructions of the temple placed these on square pedestals , but it is clear from the coins that the pedestals did not form part of the base of the columns . |
| 24 | Punk did n't mean shit to a palm tree to them even if it meant so much to us . |
| 25 | Naturally , animals do not defy conservation of energy during running . |
| 26 | The traffic going to Mr McGiffert 's shopping complex did not wreak havoc on the Ringdufferin Road , nor would I expect the traffic going to the golf course to do so . |
| 27 | The Mesopotamian Jews did not take part in the Maccabean rebellion and apparently were unaffected by it . |
| 28 | Later emperors did not regard suzerainty in central Italy as having passed to the popes by these donations . |
| 29 | Richard did not accumulate objects for sentimental reasons . |
| 30 | I replied to Ms Chevannes through the same newspaper thus : ‘ Generally , black kids do not demonstrate interest in school work and do not sink much enthusiasm into their efforts . |