Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [vb past] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With that she got up , put her knitting away and said she would go with me as far as our house . |
| 2 | She heard the man in the mask sliding down slowly and knew she should try and make a run for it but her ankle was already swelling inside her Reebok . |
| 3 | She showed me his photograph once , and he was certainly a good-looking chap with his wide smile and curly hair , but she never brought him home or suggested we should meet . |
| 4 | IRISH premier Albert Reynolds looks certain to fall today , after three members of his frail coalition government resigned yesterday and affirmed they would oppose a vote of confidence . |
| 5 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |
| 6 | D'Aubigny rose , greeted us civilly and indicated we should sit with him . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , as already described , Croydon Corporation saw things rather differently and thought they would stand to lose financially . |
| 8 | However to judge by the veteran abolitionist Lushington 's intervention in the 1831 debate the powerful demand for immediatism from abolitionists in the country was still somewhat muffled in parliament ; he approved of it if understood as , measures immediately brought in now and adopted which might lead to the gradual extinction of slavery' ; Buxton had avoided completely talking of immediate emancipation . |
| 9 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 10 | When finally he did broach the subject of the ball , Isobel refused to take his invitation seriously and said he should take someone his own age . |
| 11 | I think I thought I wanted to be part of that companionship too but knew it would conclude with my entry But that did n't have to happen because he was closing the kitchen door behind him as I arrived in the passage . |