Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These craftsmen then travelled widely to execute commissions . |
| 2 | Western scientists were not allowed on the scene then , and for many months afterwards had only restricted access . |
| 3 | Businessmen simply did not become celebrities . |
| 4 | In August , when the builders still had not started work , I decided to move in September , ready or not . |
| 5 | Villa bath houses usually had carefully decorated interiors . |
| 6 | The dropping of the detailed prescription of hours a few years later did not disturb history 's dominant position among the core subjects of the liberal , grammar tradition . |
| 7 | Workers really did n't need Marx to figure out the consequences of this inequality in the distribution of power . |
| 8 | 1.4. b BEds customarily had quite extended language courses ( 13 Colleges and 8 Polytechnics had courses of 20+ hours , while only three had less ) . |
| 9 | I have read my Foucault , I am aware of the conceptual shortcomings of a timeless , essentialist homosexual identity , I might even want to take the step of putting quotations marks around the word ‘ gay ’ — but the man who queerbashed me some years ago did not put quotation marks around his fists . |
| 10 | On the day , things just did n't go Swindon 's way . |
| 11 | Carpenters since the sixteenth century , the Tyne males now sat benignly sawing wood while the women and children did intricate carvings and played with sawdust . |
| 12 | It was a remarkable discovery on Gould 's part , given that , apart from their extraordinary beaks , many of the finches simply did not resemble finches . |
| 13 | The ‘ phones just did n't stop ringing . |
| 14 | The revelation of these connections clearly did not help Emerson greatly in the ever more sophisticated world of FI and the truth of the connection , plus Emerson 's failure to succeed with a Brazilian team , affected his popularity back home to a substantial extent . |
| 15 | By 1875 fashions in England and the USA decreed that coats should be whole-coloured rather than broken and that the skin should be yellow , the muzzle dark and the tongue and tail switch black , but the revised breed standards still did not specify colours . |
| 16 | Russian-Teleut clashes also occurred over trapping rights as well as over yasak payment from subject peoples . |
| 17 | These agents obviously did not cause diarrhoea at the time of study , although their presence might represent chronic or convalescent carriage after earlier symptomatic infection . |
| 18 | Thirty-six of the forty women said ‘ yes ’ to the question ‘ Do you find you can think about other things while you 're working ? ’ , and most of the women then went on to offer examples of topics they thought about . |
| 19 | He squeaked out brief remarks then walked round shaking hands and wearing badges reading : ‘ Sorry I ca n't talk ’ and ‘ You did a good job . ’ |