Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , I became so proficient — I used to go over and over them first thing in the mornings — that I finished pulling up Trevino on a couple of occasions . |
| 2 | I had given up hope of a reply when , after two months and three days , a letter came which began , ‘ We find your proposals perfectly feasible … ’ . |
| 3 | This leavening of men and women who had worked abroad for a number of years provided a yeast which helped to bring about change within the island . |
| 4 | There were some cottage industries which came to take up part of the " space " left by factory spinning , such as straw-hat making and lace making , but they were more localised and tended even by the standards of hand spinning to be low-paid . |
| 5 | Which meant sorting out wheat from chaff , and living like a rajah while he did so . |
| 6 | ‘ So it could hardly have taken you by surprise that she 'd started up life with a different partner . ’ |
| 7 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |
| 8 | On June 26 1990 , the Labour front bench , led by Neil Kinnock , Jo Richardson and Harriet Harman , tabled an amendment to the embryo Bill , proposing a ‘ blacklist ’ of doctors and nurses who declined to carry out abortion on demand . |
| 9 | She began to put on weight at almost every feed . |
| 10 | The tariff issue was therefore full of danger for Baldwin , not so much because of its content as because it could be exploited by those who wished to build up discontent against the spirit of ‘ Safety first ’ . |
| 11 | Mary Alston , one of the mainstays of the women 's union in the 1920s , had to care during this time for a sick sister , who was in and out of a nursing home ; much later , in the 1940s , she had to give up work for a while to care for her mother . |
| 12 | One nurse in the study told how she had to give up training after being branded a trouble-maker for complaining about a male nurse who continually groped her . |
| 13 | And still Shiona had failed to pin down Jake , despite the fact that , out of desperation , she had taken up residence at his Edinburgh home . |
| 14 | It made her feel a little dowdy , as though she had taken up residence in the suburbs of morality . |
| 15 | Another empty day with none of the jobs she had carried out day after day for so long that filled her time with things she enjoyed . |
| 16 | If you think it was hard for me , think what it was like for Gary , the sound technician , who had to sit out front in a box , wired up and WATCH the whole thing seven times a week and twice on Saturdays . |
| 17 | A few tourists were aboard ; a couple with walking gear and their spaniel dog with one blind eye staring out of the low window , and a Canadian , rather loud , who had struck up conversation with a young Lewis woman who was coming back from visiting her husband working in Libya . |
| 18 | Was it true that she had been one among others who had put up bail for Wullie Robertson ? |
| 19 | His Celtic tones were complemented by those of Jim Naughtie himself , who had set up shop in an attic room of the Grand , but who had been spending much of the ‘ happy hour ’ between six and seven trawling for ‘ vox pop ’ . |
| 20 | The fifteen hundred men who had set off north from the Forth directly after the first struggle with Siward and who must be less than two hours away at this moment , marching up Strathallan by the way he had come himself , passing Dunblane and Forteviot . |
| 21 | At the last moment he caught sight of Owen , who had taken up position at an adjoining table , and raised hands to heaven . |
| 22 | When the rats who had taken up residence in his building were ousted . |
| 23 | Not that she was afraid ; she once said that she travelled to seek out danger to ‘ silence fear ’ so that she could reach the end of her days ‘ free from that mortal weakness ’ . |
| 24 | We began to pick up speed in our responses to unfolding human rights crises . |
| 25 | From this time , we began to build up pressure on the Department , first on a weekly then on an almost daily basis , until eventually we heard that ministers had decided to fulfil the undertakings in the guardianship deed . |
| 26 | However , this doe snot apply so much to our other son , Robert , who is a private music teacher in Glasgow , so we see quite a lot of him and his wife and their baby son , who arrived just over a year ago , when we had given up hope of any more grandchildren . |
| 27 | He had even established a system for sending money home to their families once they had set up house in this country . |
| 28 | According to the report local militias dominated by Uzbek , Tajik and Shia Ismaeli ethnic groups had formed an alliance with local mujaheddin units ( including fighters commanded by Ahmed Shah Masud ) in late March , and together they had taken over control of the city from Pashtun units . |
| 29 | Instead , they had taken up position in one of the shops opposite where they were concealed by heavy wooden boarding and from where they could see directly into Mordecai 's shop . |
| 30 | October 4 : Nick and Safaya Hemming 's well-known PA–22–160 Tri-Pacer tailwheel conversion G–JEST came to grief on a strip at Flecknoe , Warwickshire , when it failed to pick up speed during take-off for a flight to Honeydon . |