Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The illusion had lasted long enough to make her accept his invitation to spend a few days away as a reward for all her hard work at the shop . |
| 2 | ‘ As I passed the boy I saw in the mirror the car had pulled out sharply to overtake and I just heard the bang . |
| 3 | However , the Ombudsman found that the UK and Gibraltar funds were closely linked and that , if the Department had moved swiftly enough to revoke the UK licence , the Gibraltar fund could not have continued to exist . |
| 4 | After the girl had calmed down enough to operate her scanning equipment , a number of hairline fractures had been revealed and a torn muscle . |
| 5 | The book was , apparently , the kind of tale for which all young people had been waiting and its heavy sales in the United States had amazed him ; the first hardcover edition had sold fast enough to surprise even his capable publisher . |
| 6 | When at last he came down to Egypt , Joseph showed him all the love and respect that were a father 's due , all the love and respect that Ham had failed so conspicuously to show to Noah . |
| 7 | He had played in Spain but after a car accident had come back here to recuperate . |
| 8 | Tyson 's past had come back eerily to haunt him — this time not in street violence but in the way Desiree Washington , a competitor in the Miss America Pageant accused him of the crimes that were to see the world heavyweight champion 's status reduced to that of a common criminal . |
| 9 | So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay . |