Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Royal Bank bought the building in 1825 it had been the Government Office of Excise and quite correctly bore the Royal arms , although no-one had got around to updating them . |
| 2 | At 0810 he gathered his staff around him for the daily conference to discuss the day ahead , before taking the morning parade of those attending various courses at the school , to ensure that everyone had turned up for work . |
| 3 | He ‘ produced his bell and rang it , stating that that was what he did at the time ’ , but the magistrate told him ‘ that he must not think that everyone had to scamper out of the way upon hearing the sound of his bell ’ . |
| 4 | He was seated at the back of the court , initially angry that someone had screwed up with the tickets , but he quickly realized that every few games he was almost directly behind her . |
| 5 | It had been such a tight squeeze to get the Princess into the boat house at all , that someone had come up with the bright idea of removing the edge boards from the quay platforms on either side . |
| 6 | So majestic were Forest that one had to look down to the programme to make sure it was n't Robertson and Woodcock and McGovern and Gemmill combining in sweet harmony to carve open Leeds . |
| 7 | She had found a good quick way of conveying the fact that something had arisen suddenly at her end that must claim her immediate attention ; a summons to go to the boss s office , the arrival of someone with whom she had an appointment , or letters to be signed to catch the afternoon post . |
| 8 | It was late in the day and nothing had led up to it . |
| 9 | If someone had gone home after 55 minutes when we were well on top and switched on his TV to see the score , he would have thought someone was playing a joke . ’ |
| 10 | So if someone had come up to you , and said , Well look , you you bet three pound , to have a go and if you get a four aces , I 'll give you a million pound , then it 's worth it . |
| 11 | Changing the subject completely , I had a quick glance through one of the soccer mags this dinnertime , and someone had written in about Leeds . |
| 12 | There were two separate rushes and someone tried to walk out without paying one of Sarah 's tickets . |
| 13 | If somebody failed to come up to her own high standards the directness she had inherited from her Australian background meant they would soon know . |
| 14 | I mean if somebody wanted to find out about erm a house , or child care , where do they turn ? |
| 15 | I mean the other morning I looked down and somebody had thrown up in the street |
| 16 | SMETANA and Dvorak — the RSNO 's programme had been tailor-made for Walter Weller and one had looked forward to a good wallow ; to tunes , and torrents of the particularly lush sounds he and his orchestra make together . |
| 17 | Her memory stirred along with her body , and everything came tumbling back into her mind with an overwhelming rush . |
| 18 | Living at just the right distance from things is impossible cos one had to move about in order to know where one is — the principle of 2 or more radar points plotting the position of an object . |
| 19 | It was well-staged and well-sung ; and even if one had to put up with such seed pearls of wisdom as ‘ Beauty is in a lover 's eyes ’ , it was none the less a serious attempt to deal with the implications of the legend . |
| 20 | ‘ The only thing is , ’ he said uncertainly , ‘ if everybody started turning up with their girl-friends … ’ |
| 21 | If they had known , people might have said he was a reformed character , but nobody had known much about his bad ways because he had worked on his own . |
| 22 | He would have preferred a spinning wheel for her to sit at , but one had to move forward with the times . |
| 23 | And so whilst we were conscious of the fact that erm management were pursuing this policy to introduce the new system , we were just as conscious that we were going to protect our members er and have prior consultation , and that 's the operative and effective word as far as shop stewards are concerned , to have prior consultation , before anybody accepted going on to the scheme . |
| 24 | Nobody can say for sure when the earliest purpose-made sparkling wine was produced , but documentary evidence exists to prove that the monks of the abbey of St Hilaire in southern France had intentionally produced sparkling wines as early as 1531 , well over one hundred years before anyone attempted to do so in Champagne . |
| 25 | It was as though everyone had dashed off on a far bigger , far better story than they had covered in their lives . |
| 26 | Until recently , that is , when something started stirring down on the movie lot . |