Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Cable claims that without " persistent British efforts the Geneva Conference would never have been held , allowed to continue , or permitted to end in even the limited measure of agreement actually achieved " over the future of Indo-China . |
| 2 | Given that it is unobtrusive though , and it is possible to obtain a very concise response to a query , rather than having to read through quite a lot of text before finding the required information , it will at the very least save some time . |
| 3 | And , if by some misfortune , he or she miscalculates and dares to put on even a tiny amount of excess fat , this is immediately dieted off within a week of it first appearing . |
| 4 | Traprain Law was a tribal centre until well into the Roman age , and has yielded up over a hundred pieces of fine Roman silverware . |
| 5 | Laura found herself repeatedly hurt by accusations in the press that they had become ‘ tax exiles ’ and tried to point out how the decision to live abroad had , on the contrary , been forced on them by their peripatetic lifestyle on the one hand and fear of punitive estate duty rates on the other . |
| 6 | I like training and enjoy working out twice a day . ’ |
| 7 | She turned , her throat constricted now , her heart pounding in her breast , and began to run back up the slope towards the cottage . |
| 8 | I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton . |
| 9 | From his local library he got photocopies of the maps of his district for 1811 , 1843 and 1871 ; he 'd sit there and try to work out how the changes in the maps related to the view at night ; where the darkness of rookeries , courts and tenements had been replaced with the darkness of lampless parks and public gardens . |
| 10 | Surely Baldwin , whatever his desire earlier in the imbroglio , can not at this stage have wished to go back to the Cabinet on the following morning and announce that a wayward King , who had already compromised his position with most opinion both at home and in the Dominions , had suddenly changed his mind , at least temporarily , and , having attracted the maximum publicity to his preference for Mrs Simpson over the Throne , was now prepared to ditch her and try to pick up again the pieces of kingship . |
| 11 | Despite his remark that ‘ The superego seems to have made a one-sided choice and to have picked out only the parents ’ strictness and severity , their prohibiting and punitive function , whereas their loving care seems not to have been taken over and maintained , ’ he states elsewhere that ‘ The superego fulfils the same function of protecting and saving that was fulfilled in earlier days by the father . ’ |
| 12 | At the end of a day 's sailing it is worth thinking about what you have learned that day , and trying to work out why the new technique works better than the one it has replaced . |
| 13 | She turns and begins to wobble back up the aisle . |
| 14 | In sum , as societies become industrialized , so the family loses its range of functions and comes to concentrate on only a few . |
| 15 | But come come back up a little bit |
| 16 | In a few hurried situations I forgot to switch on , and missed the picture opportunity while trying to figure out why the camera was n't working . |