Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kylie and Blamey were forces to wait agonising days before the trio agreed to sit down and talk about writing a song . |
| 2 | They helped Gurder up and trotted under the rows of seats with him between them . |
| 3 | Killion stopped hopping about and gazed at her . |
| 4 | Well , in the end the inevitable happened — Illtyd got fed up and called off the engagement , and thereafter ‘ Jilted by Illtyd ’ became a byword in Hut 4 . |
| 5 | Green fields through which a road wound , not tiled like the tunnel floor but just as white ( the deep white dust of chalk hills in August ) so that the tunnel floor seemed to carry on and meander into this summer landscape . |
| 6 | They ca n't bite you , but I was given a bottle of gin and told to go out and sit on the stairs . |
| 7 | We were always rather intrigued with their eagerness and how they all seemed to pick up and wallow in the atmosphere of this period when it was very trying for the squadron commander if he was not on the evening . |
| 8 | On the day I moved in my Mother had warned me not to let him rule my life like he 'd ruled my Father 's , but it never occurred to me to disobey him and seemed natural to follow the ‘ week planner ’ he 'd written out and pinned to the notice-board in the kitchen : Monday — Washing Tuesday — Ironing Wednesday — Youth Club etc . |
| 9 | erm because I 'd phoned up and asked for them , er my secretary had phoned up and asked for a meeting with her but the response was we 're not allowed to meet with you , so we said okay , cos it 's public money and things |
| 10 | On the back of the packet was the phone number of Prior , Keen , Baldwin 's motorbike messenger service which I 'd jotted down while snooping in their postroom on Friday afternoon . |
| 11 | Two minutes later , a truly magnificent swan , as white as snow , came swooping in and landed on a branch nearby . |
| 12 | ‘ I walked out of the hospital and was going down the path and a nurse came running out and shouted at me to stop . |
| 13 | A few days later when Tess came back from looking for work , the children came running out and danced round her . |
| 14 | Not new light bulbs , the ones that she 'd taken out and put into the plastic bag . |
| 15 | At the end of Salvation Street he paused and seemed to hesitate over whether to return to the town or take the road in the direction of Moorgate and the house on stilts . |
| 16 | But he kept his anger under control and vowed to knuckle down and fight for a first-team future . |
| 17 | The alarm may go off at the wrong times and this can be very irritating but the fault can be capitalized on and the child encouraged to get up and go to the lavatory anyway . |
| 18 | Sun Microsystems Inc turned biblical for the virtual reality display it mounted at Siggraph last week : equipped with a headset , the wearer got swallowed up and landed in the belly of a fish . |
| 19 | For the first time people began to sit up and listen to the facts about a problem which used to be swept silently aside . |
| 20 | Little Billy began climbing about and peeping into the tiny windows . |
| 21 | That was a great cross by , did absolut did absolutely magnificent , he controlled the ball he turned left footed shot in and hit against the post , very very unfortunate fo for Blackburn but then I suppose Shrewsbury deserve a little bit of luck . |
| 22 | Apart from a daughter who was believed to be barren he had no other near kin living and in a state of acute depression he determined to sell up and go to the Holy Land . |
| 23 | In fact he hit it 150 yards , the ball pitched , began to spin back and rolled towards the hole , finishing 10 feet away . |
| 24 | The fortunes of the human capital theory began to decline as the growth in the economies of the advanced industrial societies began to slow down or stagnate in the mid-1970s . |
| 25 | One of the tentacles began to move up and pushed through the hole . |
| 26 | Young men began ringing up or arriving on the doorstep and announcing themselves as ‘ Wedgie ’ or ‘ Snubs ’ or ‘ Schizo ’ and saying that Conor was the best there was , and was there anything they could do ? |
| 27 | We 've got two officer 's for example who are leading on working the young people in the town , Youth Development Officer 's er we , the Local Government Unit has a policy team initiated work on the youth policy , and this arose out of erm a member seminar 's , September eighty nine , where er the members felt that really the Council was n't doing enough for young people , that we as a Council , not not to think about young in the way we deliver our services and it was felt that we needed to go out and talked to young people , which we did in the winter of that year , erm and find out what they wanted from us , and the res as a result of that , that , that policy , and that consultation exercise has now developed into a front line service where we have two people full time working with young people in the town and that 's on various things , graffiti project , the underpasses in the town we , which have got graffiti type I mean I know there not everybody 's cup of tea , but I mean they way . |
| 28 | Tom thought that once Willie had finished his final Reading Book he would n't want him to read to him any more , but Willie loved to sit back and listen to his voice and so the stories continued . |
| 29 | ‘ He decided to carry on and returned to training four weeks ago . |
| 30 | And erm Claire spoke to him first of all , and we decided to pull over and talk to this chap cos he was going on and on , and I said to her |