Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sheer numbers involved also ruled out this technique . |
| 2 | Mr Kumar made comments about referee Roger Wiseman , who asked not to officiate again this season after being struck on the head by a fan when trouble erupted at the end of Birmingham 's Third Division game against Stoke on Feb 29 . |
| 3 | ‘ But since we 're both going to have to stay under this roof for a couple of days , perhaps even longer , maybe we 'd better lay down some ground rules so that we can at least avoid open warfare . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ As the other dressers have vanished , you 'd better stay up this end and make yourself very visible . |
| 5 | I 'd better get out this side I think . |
| 6 | ‘ I think you 'd better find rather more time that that , ’ he returned coolly . |
| 7 | that was war time and , and there 's the petrol , there was no , well a squeeze on petrol , you know , you 'd perhaps had just enough petrol to do some jobs where you could use the horse and cart down the |
| 8 | Susan had insisted on doing all the washing up by herself ; they 'd all had too much wine and might break something , she said . |
| 9 | If I 'd not blocked or she 'd not blocked out that time in that way , what would have happened is on the thirteenth , er , of the month , erm , Red would have called me from the Health and Safety Executive would have called me and said , Ricky we 've got er , a remedial leadership weekend on the top of Snowden , and er , on that , on the last weekend of the month , and we 've got a one hour slot for you , that 's just a golden opportunity . |
| 10 | Maurice appreciated the thought , but seemed not to care greatly one way of the other . |
| 11 | ‘ He came home plastered again last night . ’ |
| 12 | He had promised , Mr Sands said , to bring some friends with him , but by four o'clock there had been no sign of them , until , suddenly , there was an immense bustle outside , and Mr Sands , rushing out , came back to announce triumphantly that Cousin James had arrived — ‘ Better late than never ’ being his unoriginal version of the truth , and the Hon. |
| 13 | She 'd never seen so much silverware , and all laid out for one person . |
| 14 | We 'd never talked about that day , and we never again came near this old air shaft ; I do n't know what he might have done since but I 'd always assumed he was like me and just tried to forget about it , pretend it never happened . |
| 15 | However , the conferences turned out to carry less political weight than had been expected . |
| 16 | An Inquiry headed by an Irish High Court Judge , Mr Justice Declan Costello , firmly placed the responsibility for this on two corporations , Total and Gulf , who deliberately decided not to carry out necessary repair work costing a mere £130,000 because they intended to sell the tanker . |
| 17 | An Inquiry headed by an Irish High Court Judge , Mr Justice Declan Costello firmly placed the responsibility for this on two corporations , Total and Gulf , ‘ who deliberately decided not to carry out necessary repair work costing a mere £130,000 because they intended to sell the tanker' ( The Observer 27.7.80 : 2 ) . |
| 18 | He exuded sympathy and concern , urged Amiss to take as much time off as he felt necessary , assured him he would be given sick pay and that his job would be secure , and only after a long argument agreed very reluctantly that he could come back on duty the following day . |
| 19 | Celltech made a loss of £1.9 million last year , much of which went on setting up new research projects . |
| 20 | Interestingly , the teachers who did not use The Machine Gunners said things like , ‘ I like other books more ’ ( for example Conrad 's War and The Ghost of Thomas Kempe ) and went on to describe very positive pupil responses to these alternative titles . |
| 21 | as if this further proposition were not strong enough , Friedman went on to claim yet another property for the natural rate : the natural unemployment rate was that unique rate at which inflationary expectations were exactly fulfilled and hence was that unique rate at which agents had no incentive to revise their expectations of inflation either upwards or downwards . |
| 22 | But , having done this , separatism went on to offer only one solution , an all-women world . |
| 23 | not only was the undergraduate teaching poor , but there was only a minimal amount of postgraduate education in this subject ; part of the reason for this was that there was a shortage of suitable qualified and experienced doctors who knew enough to take on such postgraduate teaching ; |
| 24 | At Beltsville in Maryland , a pig injected with human growth hormone grew up to display substantially less backfat ( potentially valuable from the AgriBusiness point of view ) , but it also suffered from arthritis , poor vision , lack of leg coordination and ‘ susceptibility to stress ’ . |
| 25 | The Lady Jinneth went out riding alone this afternoon , and she has not yet come back . |
| 26 | They chose instead to define only one boundary ( the lower ) of each division and to define it by a " golden spike " ( unfortunately only hypothetical ) driven into the most suitable horizon in the most appropriate section . |
| 27 | He also learned not to place too much reliance on his senses and feelings . |
| 28 | More hours did generally mean more advertising revenue for ITV , and the companies frequently pressed the government for expansion . |
| 29 | Numerically , it was an impressive record but it did not bear too much scrutiny . |
| 30 | In the example , no claim in tort would lie if the hot water bottle did not give off enough heat . |