Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 So we got Rose out here and did as he said and by gaw it did the trick .
2 He said : ‘ The pilot tried to come down once and aborted it .
3 By the poetry of history the crown of the British sovereign , who ceased to rule in all but name in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 , is the only one of consequence , the papal tiara aside , still used in the rite of coronation .
4 ‘ I 'd fallen quite badly and had disc problems with my back .
5 A few minutes later , when she 'd got as far as wrapping herself in her host 's dressing-gown , Penry Vaughan knocked loudly on the door .
6 So when he had seen the sign ahead of him in the street , he 'd walked right in and sat down and demanded to be attended to .
7 I thought you 'd gone up there and got it .
8 Henry seemed to feel he 'd gone far enough and backed off .
9 The Trade Winds blew deficits and the workers got so bored striking at every available Sunny Day that they began working really really and blew the gaskets of many a Director 's heart .
10 In May 1529 , Henry decided to wait no longer and arranged for Wolsey to hear the case under his own legatine authority at a court at Blackfriars in London .
11 However , since I was very keen , I decided to go even better and invest in a macro lens .
12 ‘ Anyway , we remained friends , and when he decided to come down here and start his practice I asked if he would take me on as a pupil veterinary nurse .
13 But , once he realised that I was a bit apart from them , we started to get on well and wrote a lot together , coming up with new lyrics for ‘ Did You No Wrong ’ and beginning to find cover versions that would really establish our identity .
14 The 15th was an obvious birdie hole but Wadkins thinned his drive and , after much deliberation , decided to lay up rather than go for the carry .
15 I started working straight away and started getting arrested — I mean , not once : I was getting arrested three times a day .
16 " He summoned a meeting , where a simple plan was very simply found : since they had nothing left but their lives and their bodies , they chose to die nobly rather than to betray and abandon their king " .
17 One night he came back , ripped the bedclothes off and one of my kids managed to get out somehow and call the police .
18 After discussions between Bond , the Shrewsbury board and Burnley police , he agreed to stay away rather than run the risk of provoking incidents on the terraces .
19 He appeared to grow up instantly and became very serious .
20 They quickly learned to respond more rapidly and pressed the incorrect switch relatively infrequently ( Fig 5.1 ) .
21 Yes , like many of the others , I happen to be one of the ones who did go up there and take a look at it , erm , at the time , and I hope that the motion as er , not only to the county archivist but all the staff over there for the very hard work and diligent work of which they put in .
22 In Gardening From Which ? trials in 1985 , which was a fairly wet summer , petunia Resisto Mixed did particularly well and provided a colourful display until late September .
23 From the Canadian Arctic Porsild ( 1951 ) records catkins forming on Salix richardsonii , one of the dwarf willows , during an unseasonable warm spell in April ; the catkins were frozen solid during a subsequent three-week spell of intense cold , but resumed flowering immediately afterwards and set seed in June .
24 As soon as she realised what had happened she had jumped down guiltily and run home .
25 The work progressed well until it was discovered that the original iron braces inserted into the stonework by Scott had rusted very badly and expanded several inches , forcing the stonework upwards .
26 Cos if you g if anybody go down there now they could see where what we call the Pier Head , so ships had to go up there and turn in to the lock gate .
27 so you had to go right round and come down the mud down
28 I did n't sign on or claim money or nothing , so I had to go out there and steal to get money in my pocket and clothes on my back .
29 They took it out and sort of temporarily fixed it in so that they could get this out at the funeral and then he had to go back later and fix the window in .
30 I used to have to go back up , after the supper and give her the and I had to go back up and turn London 's Burning on then I used to have to go back up to turn it off
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