Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I was taken back home to my mother 's and tried to build up the relationship again . |
| 2 | Her grandmother sniffed and her mother promised to send in a note whenever she needed to be off PE . |
| 3 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 4 | The thugs pounced as Tony McLoughlin prepared to open up the school shortly after 7am . |
| 5 | And er quarter to eight er quarter to nine in the morning , all the commuters are running around half asleep , wish they 'd got up a bit earlier but they did n't . |
| 6 | Only they 'd blocked up the way in , like , and you could only get in through … |
| 7 | Oh we used to have phosphate and sulphur , potash , coal , granite you name it anything , general cargo we 've had , loaded everything , even dead bodies , we sent , there was one young , one young person , he got drowned up the coast there and they and he had to go back to Holland and they brought that from out the warehouse and put it on the stern of our ship , his coffin , they sent that back and they erm export er pigs to Poland , all live pigs , pedigree pigs . |
| 8 | When my injured back threatened to give up the ghost completely after 17 steady miles , I could n't have bought more encouragement and warmth from the people of Harlem and the Bronx who spotted the slogan on my T-shirt and never stopped yelling ‘ All the way , Linda , looking good Liverpool maternity hospitals , you can do it , go … ‘ |
| 9 | One night , in the privacy of their own bedroom , he decided to take up the matter again with Elizabeth . |
| 10 | Things started working out a bit better , but towards the end of ‘ 85 everything started getting too much ; the pressures , trying to pay my bills and trying to get extra money in . |
| 11 | City though , managed to pull back a goal instantly when Niall Quinn stabbed the ball home from close range . |
| 12 | Faith in the building was one of the reasons that seven members of the museum staff chose to weather out the storm there instead of at home . |
| 13 | It amazed me to think that even though the gay bar had been situated up those dark stairs for many years , the straight men downstairs managed to keep up the impetus so that no queen should pass without an insult . |
| 14 | He chose to take up the issue precisely because he thought it could not possibly lead to war , in that neither the Tsar , nor the Sultan in whose Empire Jerusalem was , would see the issue as of such importance . |
| 15 | But though the blood was pounding in her head and her vision was blurred she managed to take up the envelope again and lie down with it on her bed . |
| 16 | Erm I did give out a plea about two hours ago that I lost my umbrella at the music festival this weekend . |
| 17 | We entered the very horse show that we had to sit out the year before . |
| 18 | Perhaps the pussy had fallen down the well again , they thought . |
| 19 | I had sorted out the flat really nicely , and had some money put away . |
| 20 | A bitter debate in the Executive of the National Union on 8 February 1917 resulted in the setting up of a special sub-committee to consider the Bill ; a suggestion that MPs should be ineligible for the sub-committee because they had let down the party so badly in the Speaker 's Conference was only narrowly lost . |
| 21 | ’ And I had to come out a minute early to pay it back . |
| 22 | It made it worse when we knew Watson had picked up a shot here . |
| 23 | Once Deano/Whelan/Wallace had built up an understanding then the goals would have come a lot easier . |
| 24 | Umpire Frank Lee called him on 11 occasions for throwing in England 's only innings and , after the home side had wrapped up the game early , he was again called , in the exhibition match which followed , by the other umpire , Syd Buller , and was forced to complete his only over underarm . |
| 25 | Biff had drawn up a stool nearby and was drinking from a hip flask enjoying the spectacle . |
| 26 | They had trampled down the rye ahead of their line to make a killing ground some sixty yards deep and , judging by the sound of their musketry , the Dutch-Belgian skirmishers were fighting with a brisk energy . |
| 27 | Four times , he said , Scots had woken up the morning after an election to find a Tory government : ‘ We can not guarantee when they wake up the morning after the election in 1997 that we will have got rid of them . ’ |
| 28 | Whoever , or whatever was in the hold seemed unwilling or unable — they had battened down the hatch once more — to do battle in the open . |
| 29 | Careless talk or dark allegations about the true intent of such moderate measures as the Registry Act by slave-owners themselves in Barbados had brought on the trouble there in 1816 . |
| 30 | There was , indeed , a broad sense that the gloomy seventies had brought about a transformation not only in Britain 's external status but also in the main instrument and agents of planning and social policy , after the oil-price explosion , the IMF crisis , and the winter of discontent . |