Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [adv] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that I would probably lose the case if I did , and lose everything , but for my own personal esteem I needed to actually make that stand . ’ |
| 2 | After some unhelpful discussion , which did at least confirm that the main concern of the United Kingdom delegation was that of discovery , that was dealt with in Article 23 , Article 1 retaining some residual signs of the drafting history . |
| 3 | As a result of the huge curiosity our stance aroused , we had to continuously explain and defend our politics . |
| 4 | We had to constantly move when I was a child , from one house to another , one district to another , always trying to find cheaper houses . ’ |
| 5 | Fay : ‘ Mr Potts , he was ever such a laugh : but when he got in a temper he used to really shout and nobody took any notice . ’ |
| 6 | They treated him like one of them , complimenting him on his astuteness , until he began to genuinely believe that it was he who had selected Node Check , that he was an expert on account trading before he 'd learned anything about the stock market in general . |
| 7 | It managed to either maintain or even extend market share within its trade sectors , but lower margins and volume declines led to a fall against 1991 . |
| 8 | He did n't take a positivistic line and argue that the sentence ‘ God exists ’ is literally meaningless , but he did at least think that it was , expressed a proposition which no reasonable person would accept . |
| 9 | While the procedure was to some extent artificial and led to conclusions that did not always stand up to later study , it did at least mean that the different forms of early Christian teaching could now be admitted for discussion , and the possibility of real conflict between opposing views recognised as a natural and proper element in the development . |
| 10 | And while there were crudely economic motives in , for example , sending Hitchcock to reconstruct English and Oriental settings in Italy and Germany for his first film , The Pleasure Garden ( 1925 ) , it did at least show that he was as aware as the Film Society 's membership of the backwardness of British films . |
| 11 | It would hardly have been possible for it to support beauty and extravagance and pleasure at the expense of mere survival , but it did at least hint that such a view could be held , and its mere admission of this possibility was to Clara profoundly satisfying . |
| 12 | Now Dr Winfield — and I have ratified this — made 127 sorties ; he could not have enjoyed his period at the Institute very much because he never seemed to he there , But he would come on a station with some project he wanted to fully research and he believed the only way to fully research these things was to " try them out on the dog " . |
| 13 | The major national breweries themselves began to either acquire or be acquired by non-brewing companies so as to form larger conglomerates such as Allied-Lyons ( formed when Allied Breweries took over the catering group J. Lyons in 1978 ) , Grand Metropolitan ( formed when Grand Met Hotels took over Truman Hanbury and Buxton in 1971 and Watney Mann in 1972 ) and Imperial ( formed when Imperial Tobacco acquired Courage Breweries in 1972 ) . |