Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 2 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 3 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 4 | On the first leg of the flight to Tehran , courtesy of one of the aircraft that also helped with contra resupply , North told Cave ‘ This is Democracy Airlines , ’ and laughed ; Cave had no notion what he meant . |
| 5 | The gesture was both intimate and impersonal and it reminded her of Maggie 's physical friendship that never grew into love . |
| 6 | Sarah had previously suggested that they should try the effect of Queen Caroline 's ‘ Christmas trees ’ — young fir trees set in tubs and put upon the table or in a window seat and then decked with penny candles . |
| 7 | The Portuguese escudo joined the European exchange rate mechanism on Friday and yesterday shot to pole position , hitting the top of its 6 p.c. band , and heaping pressure on the pound which remains the weak man of Euro currencies . |
| 8 | The woman , whose hands were still bound , clambered from the back seat into the front of the two-door car and then struggled to safety . |
| 9 | Hair was razor cut into a long bob and heavily tousled into shape . |
| 10 | He was not only widely respected as a critic but also regarded with affection for the genuine humility which made him always interested in others ' opinions . |
| 11 | After his release in the mid-1970s he became a successful businessman and hotelier but later went into exile in Rome , where he helped finance the USC , returning to Somalia in late 1990 . |
| 12 | Their wails and screams rose above the crackle of their burning homes and were made even more blood-curdling by the clangorous din of the church bells that frantically appealed to heaven for aid . |
| 13 | The wheels were placed inside in order to protect them from the elements as well as from the deliberate damage that sometimes occurred during water disputes . |
| 14 | At first many counties established county-wide committees , but these either degenerated into battlegrounds for county/district rivalries or else atrophied through lack of business ( Alexander 1982a:37 — 8 ; 58 — 9 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Last night I went to an art exhibition in my sister-in-law 's gallery and then went to dinner to celebrate my brother-in-law 's birthday . |
| 16 | Nadir pressure was referenced to the prevailing midoesophageal body pressure in that second and so took into account changes of basal oesophagela body pressure produced by common cavity episodes . |
| 17 | His son Charles was also wounded in the battle and only escaped with difficulty . ’ |
| 18 | Coleman had joined BNS in 1963 with an Oxford history degree and initially cconcentrated on work study . |
| 19 | The broad gauge set the standard for developments for half a century , largely because the greater stability permitted higher speeds than were then possible on the narrow gauge and hence led to engineering advances that would make such speeds possible , eventually in the narrow gauge as well . |
| 20 | He presented the mayor of West Berlin with a statuette of a woman holding a dove of peace and then walked through Checkpoint Charlie . |
| 21 | She continued to visit her former foster parents and even went on holiday to Spain with them . |
| 22 | Isabel stepped back so she would n't bump into the girl and instantly cannoned into fitzAlan instead . |
| 23 | He named it Stegman ( a steg is a male goose ) and it spent most of the summer on the reservoir but always wintered at West Birk Hatt . |
| 24 | To , to , to my friend who 'd bought me a , you know , a pint of beer I would have said , ‘ We wanted , I wanted , not only annual licensing but also linked to training and food handling , otherwise it does n't mean anything . ’ |
| 25 | One young woman claimed to have wept her way into a degree but once started on work and a career , never used such tricks again . |
| 26 | By raising the question of the Holy Places the French President not only gained ground at home but also set in train a long-term policy . |
| 27 | In six patients , however , HBV-DNA disappeared from the serum but quickly reappeared after discontinuation of therapy , indicating that persistent absence of HBeAg is the best indicator for termination of the viral replicating phase . |
| 28 | Harry Foy as Needle Nugent looked the part and always stayed in character . |
| 29 | This new evidence was held by the defence and only came to light during the trial . |
| 30 | Twenty-four pairs of painted lips let out long-drawn gasps and then broke into speech . |