Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found that the types of pupil behaviour in the secondary school classroom presenting teachers with the most difficulty ranged from talking out of turn , physical aggression towards the teacher , calculated idleness , verbal abuse , hindrance of other pupils , general rowdiness and so on . |
| 2 | At the turn of the year , clients dithered about signing up for consultancy projects . |
| 3 | Last Saturday Kilmarnock humbled them at Ibrox , and basement boys Dundee looked like following up with another sensation at Dens Park yesterday . |
| 4 | Last Saturday Kilmarnock humbled them at Ibrox , and basement boys Dundee looked like following up with another sensation at Dens Park yesterday . |
| 5 | At least one citizen died through coming back into the town after a great thickness of ash had accumulated , and presumably during a lull in the eruption , either to loot or to rescue his own little hoard of gold . |
| 6 | At the time , the teenaged Bowie and Roxy Music fan dreamt of getting out of the rain and opening his own record shop . |
| 7 | The United States responded by setting out in another letter its obligations to the parties . |
| 8 | Hakon cheated by turning up with seven or eight warships as opposed to the agreed number of two ships adhered to by St Magnus . |
| 9 | Exercise consisted of getting up in the morning , reaching for a cigarette and climbing into the car . |
| 10 | Anabelle felt like curling up in a ball and plugging her ears until they all went away — and she would have , too , if she had thought it would do any good . |
| 11 | Many of the captains spoke against continuing on to Naggaroth , saying that they had achieved their goal , and that the loss of life was too great to continue . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't see why , ’ Whitlock replied without looking up from the grill . |
| 13 | ‘ Say that to anyone else , ’ Short muttered without looking up from his fried egg , ‘ and I 'll see you in court . ’ |
| 14 | Tom insisted on going back with her to Streatham Street to fetch her suitcase and winter coat . |
| 15 | ‘ Rose went to bed , ’ Mona answered without looking up from her books and though the boy thought about it for a while he did not ask anything further . |
| 16 | Clacton Police will start the initiative on Monday aimed at clamping down on the young drivers who regularly roar along the town 's one-way system , screeching tyres and playing loud music on their car stereos . |
| 17 | Any weaknesses were determinedly removed , settings were constantly corrected , refinements were built in , until the day came for handing over to the RNLI — Wednesday 15 May 1991 . |
| 18 | Half of the secondees struggled with finding out about the nature of the job and how the administrative system worked . |
| 19 | Adrian Scanlon insisted on driving up to the front door , once I had opened the gate . |
| 20 | This is what Jesus did in facing up to our fallen condition . |
| 21 | The paper started by zeroing in on the inner London boroughs . |
| 22 | ‘ The cast insisted on coming on behind me and , in tears , they sang the final song . ’ |
| 23 | Those who were influenced by this belief refrained from setting out on a journey or from starting a major task on that day of the week . |
| 24 | It was done in fact by a brilliant military er tactic er and indeed the Americans succeeded in throwing the North Koreans back over the Yalob the river Yalob So up to that point limited force had been used to achieve a political objective , the objective was to s s to erm contain communism wherever communism looked like spilling over into other countries , non-communist countries . |
| 25 | Mrs Roberts was not home , and Jessica thought about going back to bed for an hour or two . |
| 26 | The worst part lay in facing up to the fact that some of the things he 'd said were true , much as she might try to deny it . |
| 27 | Vauxhall retaliated by knocking up to £1,150 off 1992 Novas and Cavaliers not fitted with catalytic converters . |
| 28 | At the Regina station Mr Murray insisted on climbing up into the engine tender to shake hands with and thank the engineer and fireman who had brought us through the storm on this far-from-ordinary journey . |
| 29 | Of those who fought at Hazenbrouck , ten officers and around 200 ORs succeeded in getting back to England . |
| 30 | I only hit him when the situation looked like getting out of hand . ’ |