Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found that the types of pupil behaviour in the secondary school classroom presenting teachers with the most difficulty ranged from talking out of turn , physical aggression towards the teacher , calculated idleness , verbal abuse , hindrance of other pupils , general rowdiness and so on . |
| 2 | At least one citizen died through coming back into the town after a great thickness of ash had accumulated , and presumably during a lull in the eruption , either to loot or to rescue his own little hoard of gold . |
| 3 | At the time , the teenaged Bowie and Roxy Music fan dreamt of getting out of the rain and opening his own record shop . |
| 4 | Exercise consisted of getting up in the morning , reaching for a cigarette and climbing into the car . |
| 5 | Any weaknesses were determinedly removed , settings were constantly corrected , refinements were built in , until the day came for handing over to the RNLI — Wednesday 15 May 1991 . |
| 6 | The paper started by zeroing in on the inner London boroughs . |
| 7 | ‘ The cast insisted on coming on behind me and , in tears , they sang the final song . ’ |
| 8 | Those who were influenced by this belief refrained from setting out on a journey or from starting a major task on that day of the week . |
| 9 | It was done in fact by a brilliant military er tactic er and indeed the Americans succeeded in throwing the North Koreans back over the Yalob the river Yalob So up to that point limited force had been used to achieve a political objective , the objective was to s s to erm contain communism wherever communism looked like spilling over into other countries , non-communist countries . |
| 10 | The worst part lay in facing up to the fact that some of the things he 'd said were true , much as she might try to deny it . |
| 11 | I only hit him when the situation looked like getting out of hand . ’ |