Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt he 'd enjoyed this association with young men , trousers and jackets endlessly tried on in curtained booths . |
| 2 | The flagstones were slippery and so hollowed out by three centuries of passing feet that along some of the walkways the puddles had coalesced into shallow canals . |
| 3 | However , the approaches to its main executives only came out under aggressive press questioning of Mr Gatward after yesterday 's meeting which a handful of shareholders attended . |
| 4 | However , the approaches to its main executives only came out under aggressive press questioning of Mr Gatward after yesterday 's meeting which a handful of shareholders attended . |
| 5 | Enough came out of that conversation to keep me brooding half the night . |
| 6 | things like that , and we also , I think this year we ought to send Sid one because he came up with ten litres of five each of them boxes so came up with ten litres of wine . |
| 7 | It suddenly happened out of thin air . |
| 8 | An argument apparently broke out during these talks , and fierce fighting ensued in which Doe was shot and wounded and a total of 64 men , mostly from Doe 's contingent , were believed to have been killed . |
| 9 | The British government er not only went along with this agreement at the time of the Edinburgh summit , they positively endorsed this arrangement er as being something that they er strongly supported and urged upon other member states in the European community er and that I think is a relevant matter with respect er Mr Deputy Speaker , I I appreciate that er there are other issues relating to these er er constituencies that are of greater concern perhaps to er honourable and right honourable members but this question of who actually is to pay for any new building in the European parliament is something that I believe the government can not avoid . |
| 10 | we only went out for forty minutes , we were surprised how long we 'd been gone |
| 11 | I decided doubles was getting short-shrifted so went off on that tangent . |
| 12 | A photographic memory enabled him to avoid the obvious suspicions which Special Branch officers noting the proceedings obviously fell under at such meetings . |
| 13 | thesis ( Young 1986 ) , Mike Chatterton ( 1988 ) rightly homed in on this question of ethics , saying : ‘ there is reference here to the moral dilemma(s) posed by ‘ insiders ’ using their access to do ethnography and what that entails regarding betraying confidences etc … . |
| 14 | But US companies only ploughed back into new investment a sum equal to their profits . |
| 15 | His memory was indistinct — a few details only stood out in odd clarity : listening to ‘ Palm Court ’ on the radio , followed with awful inevitability by ‘ Variety Bandbox ’ , the last hours of the week-end petering out , wasted , joyless , empty ; bed , and school again the next day . |
| 16 | The towns which thus sprung up at some railway centres are examples of the way in which individuality was lost , and lately the housing estate has spread a new uniformity even more widely over the country . |
| 17 | The Kalkadoon did not have words for European artifacts and ideas but they soon came up with new words as the need arose . |
| 18 | If some interviewees left everything to you and just came up with standard answers and showbiz cliches , Bob Monkhouse was not remotely in that category . |
| 19 | Stockholm : Sharp gains in Volvo and Ericsson shares dominated a moderate session in which prices generally fell back from early advances . |
| 20 | So we just kept out of each other 's way . ’ |
| 21 | For the first time ever , my pride got the better of me and I desperately looked round for some means of defending myself . |
| 22 | But it just grew out of all proportion . |
| 23 | Holland thereupon went back to regimental duty , on being offered a regular lieutenant-colonel 's command . |
| 24 | So when anybody wanted to repot a plant they just went round to this lady then did they ? |
| 25 | For her thoughts just went round in agonising circles . |
| 26 | He did n't ever change himself , he just went out with organised women . ’ |
| 27 | In quick succession France slimmed down from three to one and Italy from two to one ; Britain also finally slimmed down to one company from two and previously three . |
| 28 | We just slipped back into each other again . ’ |
| 29 | The big traders were so supine , they just caved in after one letter . ’ |
| 30 | I never said anything then he er I could see he 'd gone cos he just stood there for about ten minutes like th and everybody else was working , he just stood there like this for about ten minutes by the rack see him doing nothing I never said nothing he come charging through with a rack and knocked all the pallet over what they just stacked up with fifty boxes on so we had to make that right and he stacked a load of L T M boxes which are temperamental anyway and he had n't pulled the wrap tight so as soon the bloke lift them up with the forklift , they fell all over ! |