Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv] [det] [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 | 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. |
| 11 | She 'd never seen so much silverware , and all laid out for one person . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ; |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | The Lady Jinneth went out riding alone this afternoon , and she has not yet come back . |
| 18 | He also learned not to place too much reliance on his senses and feelings . |
| 19 | Numerically , it was an impressive record but it did not bear too much scrutiny . |
| 20 | In the example , no claim in tort would lie if the hot water bottle did not give off enough heat . |
| 21 | Alice bought a hot water bottle from a retailer which did not give off any heat . |
| 22 | One with a job during the day , who enjoyed looking after her small domain , and who did not demand too much attention from her landlady . |
| 23 | He was not right after the race and did not appear again all season but I like the way he has been stretching out and he could win here before making his mark in middle distance Group company . |
| 24 | Naturally I did not do quite that sort of thing again . ’ |
| 25 | However they did not eat significantly more chocolate or feel greater cravings than eaters who made no secret of their habit . |
| 26 | Our meeting with the ACPO representative did not bring about any change in this position , and we had to admit that we shared their concern for road safety . |
| 27 | I did not sleep well that night : it had been a great day and the call of the wild kept me nervous and excited . |
| 28 | She did not sleep well that night . |
| 29 | He did not sleep well that night . |
| 30 | Fabia did not sleep well that night and , though Ven returned quietly in the early hours of Tuesday morning , she was awake , and heard him coming in . |