Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [conj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they got to go down and get another one . |
| 2 | After that , Mabel got carried away and bought some china cups — on sale at bargain prices , because they had lost their matching saucers — and Florrie bought a cobweb brush with a special extending cane handle , for getting up into those awkward comers of the ceiling . |
| 3 | It was in this feverish atmosphere of gunsmoke and ( if one was lucky ) subsistence rations that Bukharin tried to peer ahead and formulate some theoretical propositions regarding the transition to socialism . |
| 4 | The client , who generally accepted the traditional process , also accepted the form of contract for what it was : a formal document encapsulating the procedures which seemed to work well and produced few disputes . |
| 5 | Suddenly , she seemed to wake up and put some sting into her shots . |
| 6 | One of his sons , Noel , a retired university lecturer , decided to sort out and study all the documents , including the stories which had been confided to him by his father , to whom he was very close . |
| 7 | And I mean a great thrill he was to us , he cried come here and see this and here was among all his little moles , he had a white one a pure white mole . |
| 8 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 9 | The Psychopomps had checked in and done some minimal damage two nights back . |
| 10 | But then I had to go out and buy another one … ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The trouble with using a Hasselblad is that you black out after each shot , and in the first session I 'd cut off the arms in one or two shots , so I had to go back and re-shoot those . |
| 12 | He therefore had to work quickly and collect some information to take back to Burnell in London . |
| 13 | The Regional Chairman 's Committee continued to meet regularly and considered those aspects of RIBA policy which were of particular interest to the regions . |
| 14 | Most pregnant mothers are told to relax and put their feet up at some point every day — and many of them had done so while watching these television programmes . |
| 15 | She launched into a brief account of her visit to Puddephat 's rooms , leaving vague what she had done there and making much of the fright she had got when the fire bell went off . |
| 16 | But she had risen early and found that staying put with nothing to do was growing more and more irksome . |
| 17 | In the week since she had left he had slept poorly and spent much of the night pacing around the house . |
| 18 | She felt raw — not physically , except where she had scoured her skin in the bath , but inside , in her soul , as if he had reached in and desecrated some sacred part of her . |
| 19 | After three miles Nathan had to turn round and ride all the way home again . |
| 20 | They had quarrelled all the time and his mum had slammed out and left all the washing-up in the sink which he and Gary had to do when they ran out of plates . |
| 21 | The brown muddy plain had sparse vegetation , most of which appeared to have been burnt away in a centuries old holocaust which had dried out and cracked most of the mud . |
| 22 | When Liz told me that she thought your boss wanted to marry you I knew I had to step in and stop that nonsense once and for all , ’ he grated , his strong arms tightening possessively about her . |
| 23 | As it was , however , the US was slowly , and not too slowly , getting itself into a position where its responsibilities tended to supplant rather than complement those of the French : and this was something which at least had to be offset against all the delays that would ensue in European rearmament . |
| 24 | Alan Webb says he 's always been interested in boats and when he took it up started going to marinas and out to sea but after a while he wanted to go faster and have more fun |
| 25 | I wanted to go home and do that , and in fact do the things I wan na to do at weekends . |
| 26 | However , if I actually wanted to come along and learn some English — I did ‘ O ’ level English , I enjoyed it immensely , but then I did science in the sixth for and went on to a science career — can I come and study English at your school ? |
| 27 | Then offers started to come in from other amp and electronics companies , asking me if I wanted to branch off and do some design work for them , which I could see the advantages of — plus I wanted to have a life ! |
| 28 | Politics constantly tended to take over and remould such pre-political elements for its own purposes . |