Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it was no use to the farmer , there was no water to be seen there , and I thought I could do it with my own garden tools , and so once I 'd removed all the rough brambles and so on and discovered the periphery of the old pond |
| 2 | They had managed to stay together although they had lost all their kit and most of their clothes . |
| 3 | And in an oblique swipe at her critics in the Bush Administration she added : ‘ Those countries protesting at their return would do better if they offered to take some of them . ’ |
| 4 | Those countries which were protesting about the repatriation would do far better if they offered to take some of the boat people themselves . |
| 5 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 6 | He wondered suddenly if she had got any fun out of her marriage to Peter Dawson . |
| 7 | So if we wanted to do some , I mean if you , if you can use that to do mental arithmetic to impress your mates , that 's . |
| 8 | Also in Scandinavia was an important study of the mass movement processes on the slopes of Kärkevagge ( Rapp , 1960 ) and this was important not only because it endeavoured to quantify all of the processes that affect a slope in a subarctic environment , but also because it established the relative significance of the different processes and concluded that the most effective agent of removal was running water removing material in solution . |
| 9 | Put bluntly , it did so because it failed to convince enough people it could deal with the Conservative legacy and had a plausible philosophy of wealth creation of its own . |
| 10 | I left them together while I went to make some coffee , and when I came back into the room , Shanti was saying , ‘ Patsy , where do I get my big feet from ? |
| 11 | Well I think more than anything if they 'd have seen the state she was in after she 'd had this |
| 12 | By coincidence , Jack Henderson had worked with Hellen Semmens ( later my wife ) when they were both involved in the production of Gilbert & Sullivan operas in Winnipeg , long before I had met either of them . |
| 13 | We were to witness a different and more promising sacrifice only after we had spent many patient weeks in Bira , when a white cock and a black goat were ritually slaughtered in Sinar Surya 's hull , signifying that at last we were about to depart . |
| 14 | But just as suddenly as it had begun all this ended three years later , leaving the halls deserted . |
| 15 | And yet , as carelessly as he had discarded this coat , he had deliberately destroyed her hopes and her dreams . |
| 16 | Bad industrial relations had been the curse of the country for as long as I had taken any interest in politics ; although the reform of trade union law was essential , further steps were also needed . |
| 17 | The first part dealt with unmixed foil and stated that ownership in the foil would transfer to the buyers only when they had paid all that was owing to the sellers . |
| 18 | Little by little the Grants began to do more things together as they came to trust each other , and to find enjoyment in each other 's company . |
| 19 | So when I went to shut that gate after that |
| 20 | She had not told him exactly where she had got all the money that had been spent so freely around this house , but of course he guessed . |
| 21 | In the pilot scheme , the centre 's staff took about 20 hours to compile one chart , largely because it had to do much of the cartography by hand . |
| 22 | Althusser 's theory of history has been more widely attacked and denigrated than any other aspect of his work , largely because he dared to argue that , far from providing the unassailable foundation of Marxism , history was a problematic concept even in Marx 's own texts : |
| 23 | She knew it did n't make any sense , not after she had spent most of the day wishing she were a thousand miles away from Julius , but she suddenly felt rather desperately in need of human company — even Julius 's . |
| 24 | After the meeting , Flashman slipped out of a side exit to the hotel 's underground car park — but not before he had pinned another photographer , Paul Welford , against a wall . |
| 25 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 26 | Soon after he had learned another police car giving chase had lost the men 's Ford Sierra nearby . |
| 27 | The strike had ended soon after he had commenced this venture so he was again at work during the day , as a machinist , but after getting home at 6 p.m. and hastily eating a meal , he went into his ( or should I say , the communal ) bedroom , and worked long into the night . |
| 28 | Britain 's economic problems added to the sensitivity of her leaders , and to the conviction that the Americans were trying to undermine the British Empire just as they had destroyed that of the Dutch in Indonesia in the late 1940s . |
| 29 | The ‘ Legitimist ’ nobility , that is those who remained loyal to the elder Bourbon branch which had been deposed by the Revolution of 1830 , kept itself aloof from the court of the ‘ parvenu ’ , just as it had shunned that of Louis-Philippe . |
| 30 | Gregory seems to have confused the chronology of events in the 520s and 530s , just as he had muddied that of the two previous decades . |