Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " 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 | Tsar Simeon II , who had succeeded to the throne in 1943 at the age of seven , had been forced into exile by the 1946 referendum result and currently lived in Madrid . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As most of the decisions are now taken in Brussels and merely rubber-stamped by Westminster , just what is the point in voting ? |
| 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 | Ben drew up the car and then glanced at Zoe . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At Benjamin Rhodes , there are new paintings by Simon Edmondson ( 17 June-7 August ) , who has been living in Madrid for the last twelve months and previously showed with Nicola Jacobs . |
| 11 | Hair was razor cut into a long bob and heavily tousled into shape . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 | He returned to Washington and then went to Switzerland . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | He was never an ideological coalitionist and never fell under L.G. 's spell , for all their good personal relations . |
| 18 | His widow and children returned to England and later emigrated to Australia where one of the daughters , Maria Louisa , made a good marriage . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Great dinosaurs were excavated from the American west while it was still ‘ wild ’ — early fossil-hunters had to contend with hostile Indians and sometimes came to blows over possession of the richest sites . |
| 21 | His son Charles was also wounded in the battle and only escaped with difficulty . ’ |
| 22 | Coleman had joined BNS in 1963 with an Oxford history degree and initially cconcentrated on work study . |
| 23 | She placed them in a casserole dish and then shouted for Piers to come inside and eat . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He presented the mayor of West Berlin with a statuette of a woman holding a dove of peace and then walked through Checkpoint Charlie . |
| 26 | Further north , the Langkawi islands are remote and less developed , and to the south lies the popular resort island of Pangkor , readily accessible from the mainland and often crowded during weekends and holidays . |
| 27 | She continued to visit her former foster parents and even went on holiday to Spain with them . |
| 28 | Isabel stepped back so she would n't bump into the girl and instantly cannoned into fitzAlan instead . |
| 29 | Mark looked at me with wild surmise and then spoke in capitals : ‘ THE NORTH SHORE IS TWELVE VIOLENT MILES OF SURF . |
| 30 | 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 . |