Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no in those days if you had children er young children at any rate you , you , you never expected to go out to work at all . |
| 2 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after tests , it has been revealed . |
| 3 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after vital tests , it has been revealed . |
| 4 | But instead of returning to the trees and swinging happily ever after , the orangs got caught up in web of conservation politics . |
| 5 | As part of the deal Mr de Ferranti agreed to stand down in favour of Sir Derek and to allow James Guerin , International Signal 's founder , to come on to the board as deputy chairman . |
| 6 | Instead of carrying on and making the downwind landing without incident , he flew on to give himself room to land and then tried to turn around into wind for the landing . |
| 7 | All media , apart from government-controlled radio and television , have been totally silenced , and Haïtians caught tuning in to Voice of America broadcasts are arrested and beaten . |
| 8 | Mhm , when I started in here er I just got put up to work beside one of the women , she just showed me , |
| 9 | By the time I was 22 , I 'd run up nearly £4,000 in debt , and was beginning to fall behind with the payments because I rested sending money off to pay for clothes I 'd fallen out of love with . |
| 10 | Little did Jean realise it , as she prepared to set off to church at Caterham , Surrey , for the funeral of her lifetime partner and soulmate , but the first clue to his free-spending secret life had plopped through the letterbox that very morning . |
| 11 | As the sun begins to rise she glances out of the window and recalls how she chose this film from all the offers which came pouring in after success on the small screen and on record . |
| 12 | In 1906 the Liberals came romping back to power on an electoral landslide caused , above all , by their success in branding the Tories as the party of bread taxes . |
| 13 | Referee John Pearson was not impressed either but he waved play on and instead was intent on punishing a Leicester offside as they came piling round in search of the loose ball . |
| 14 | He 'd pulled out in front of Gooch 's speeding car but was told he was not to blame for what followed . |
| 15 | ‘ I told her you 'd gone out to dinner with Ricky . |
| 16 | ‘ I came last night , but they told me that you 'd gone out to dinner with friends . |
| 17 | That he 'd noticed she 'd got a decent figure was to be expected , she supposed , seeing that the lace cotton blouse and culottes she had worn that time she 'd gone out to dinner with Travis had touched her contours comfortably . |
| 18 | But it 'd flashed up like neon in my head once or twice since then : Warning . |
| 19 | At the election he stood as the architect 's architect , pledged to stand up for quality of design . |
| 20 | And the 25-year-old defender , who moved to Boundary Park along with Neil Pointon in the deal that took Rick Holden to Maine Road admitted : ‘ I grew up with Manchester City but in the end I hated getting out of bed in the morning to go to work . ’ |
| 21 | he got called out in front of the school |
| 22 | What should have been a routine exercise in extending the Government 's borrowing power to $3.1 thousand billion became bogged down in wrangling over legislative initiatives lawmakers wanted to attach to the bill . |
| 23 | It 's got nothing to do with the fact that he got bent out of shape at an early age and has been shaping laughs out of the kinks ever since . |
| 24 | After spending a day settling in to their hotel rooms and enjoying a display by the Orange County Police Department , the children began to bubble over with excitement at the thought of visiting Disney 's Magic Kingdom . |
| 25 | Cindy 's voice began to wobble out of control in a way which was familiar to Matt from many late-night sessions with his sisters . |
| 26 | He began to run about in front of her , to turn , to perform grotesque dance movements that were not without some grace . |
| 27 | From this point , Witney knuckled down in search of the equaliser and began to get back on top of the game , and eventually on sixty nine minutes reduced the arrears . |
| 28 | The description by Jill Tweedie of the organic sheep farmer I was travelling to meet bounced from the page : ‘ This once respectable female stripped off and began sitting around in front of cameras with her legs apart and her hands in unmentionable places . ’ |
| 29 | With a career in speech therapy behind her , Liz decided to go on to study for a post-graduate degree in Marine Archaeology at St Andrews University , where her husband David is Professor of Chemistry . |
| 30 | Erm they began the union just before I left Bellany and of course it was cried down and erm they had meetings and the lot , and then all the miners were on strike at the time , and er my father and brother were both miners and er my brother was very friendly with Mr and Mr next door and er anyway er we decided to come out on strike for Bellany 's union and of course erm they , the , one , I think it was Mr said Joey he said er did you know we 're out on strike here and my brother said it seemed to be catching does n't it he did n't say he could n't say I worked there you see but erm it , it caused an upset but still up to a point the unions were good because we 're all badly underpaid for what we did , and the hours we worked they would n't tolerate it nowadays , but erm I forget er I joined the union and if you did n't you were a blackleg you know you , they wanted you to join the union from then I 've been in the union all , until I finished work but erm they , they got us our rises and er as I say the , the money was n't er very good and then the union did fight for the rises and they 'd got to pay it or lose all the er employees but erm I was , I was satisfied with without it , I 've been satisfied with my life you know I 've had , there 's been humorous there 's been sad but erm I 'm still able to get around and that 's the main thing . |