Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [conj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were at the toast and marmalade stage when Mrs. Mackintosh came in to say that Sir Bryan was wanted on the telephone . |
| 2 | Tommie flew as cannoneer but not one German fighter came out to play and Roundtrip Jack landed with a disappointed crew only to learn from the Group Armament Officer that the new B-17G with a chin turret would soon be arriving and further plans for their 20mm conversion had been scrapped . |
| 3 | ‘ I think you gave me one too , ’ I said , then , very gingerly , I straightened up and twisted round to see that Murder Cay was far behind us and well out of machine-gun range . |
| 4 | The work at Holy Cross became further integrated when Robert Slater became the chaplain of Rangoon cathedral . |
| 5 | GRAHAM TAYLOR yesterday vowed not to quit as England manager — but admitted he feels as hounded on the back pages as the Royal Family are on the front . |
| 6 | The sun took its toll in August when I went to Britford Sheep Fair with my Uncle Arthur , a civil servant who used to have the whole month for holiday and returned home to learn that Ron Stanley , a schoolmate who lived in The Friary , had died from sunstroke . |
| 7 | She went on to explain that General Francis was a widower , and semi-invalid . |
| 8 | While such statements could be interpreted as being passive rather than negative in terms of the advancement of building surveying , the Report went on to state that building surveyors ‘ have been less ebullient [ than quantity surveyors ] in recent years — partly because they are less numerous and their work less homogeneous or well defined ; but , to a large extent because they have made a less prolonged and concerted effort to develop their skills and explore the horizons of opportunity , although there has of late been a welcome resurgence in this respect ’ . |
| 9 | From rings she went on to study and catalogue collections of cameos and other jewels from antiquity to the present . |
| 10 | However he went on to find that Miss T. was lulled into a sense of false security by hospital staff and that she was misinformed as to the availability and effectiveness of alternative procedures . |
| 11 | He got up , put the plates of food in the range oven to keep them hot , then went down to see if Mrs Beavis could help . |
| 12 | Its origins were as a ‘ nannying ’ organisation formed rapidly to ensure that UK companies were aware of the opportunities presented by North Sea developments . |
| 13 | The following night a recce. party went out to see if Capt. Warr had arrived . |
| 14 | Ba pe blamed ‘ Those damned Communists ’ , but Saw firmly believed that Aung San was responsible and stored up a grudge against him . |
| 15 | Once , Swan looked round to see if Little Billy was all right . |
| 16 | That particular luxury did not appear until M. Georges Nagelmackers had copied Mr Pullman and introduced them in 1883 , and even then they were for the rich who could afford to travel on the ‘ Orient Express ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , ’ Corbett continued , ‘ the King did not arrive but Patrick Seton , the body-squire did . |
| 18 | But the fact was that the world did not change as de Gaulle had predicted . |
| 19 | No , I did not mean that Dan Quayle is about to leap to his feet to make a key-note speech , or that Clive James is considering a follow-up television interview with Mrs Reagan . |
| 20 | In Hong Kong , expectations of violence in the camps did not materialise but aid workers believed the initial passivity would probably not last . |
| 21 | ‘ You did not deduce that Heather Mallender came here . |
| 22 | He did not budge as Mr Gubb raised the cane above his shoulder and fixed his eyes on the boy 's fingers with the concentration of a golfer addressing his ball . |
| 23 | It always seems odd , looking back on a turning-point in life , that bells did not ring and warning hooters go . |
| 24 | Despite what many people claim , however , Freud did not say that dream interpretation shows that all dreams have a sexual content . |
| 25 | Only , as Lewis tells us in Surprised by Joy , ‘ when we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God , and when we reached the zoo I did . ’ |
| 26 | On the whole , correspondents did not believe that church musicians receive as much encouragement as they deserve . |
| 27 | He did not believe that council reform should be at the top of the list of problems to be dealt with in Scotland . |
| 28 | In this at least he agreed with Madison and the other American constitutionalists , who also did not believe that majority decisions were necessarily right . |
| 29 | In 1970 , Labour identification was not necessarily tied to support for the party 's ‘ traditional ’ concerns , or at least the concerns of the left-wing : only 39 per cent of Labour identifiers were in favour of nationalising more industries ; only 40 per cent did not believe that trade unions had too much power ; and although 60 per cent were in favour of spending more on social services this represented a marked decline from the 89 per cent recorded in 1964 ( Crewe et al . , |
| 30 | ( 1977 ) , 50 per cent of Labour identifiers supported more nationalisation of industry , 61 per cent were in favour of spending more on social services , and 44 per cent did not believe that trade unions had too much power . |