Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and his wife decided not to put off having the second child they had planned , despite the financial uncertainty . |
| 2 | The Jordanian foreign minister , Kamel Abu Jaber , speaking after talks with Syrian leaders in Damascus , called for the return of all the deported Palestinians , but in Cairo , the Lebanese prime minister , Rafik al-Hariri , did not rule out resuming the peace negotiations before the issue of the deportees was resolved . |
| 3 | DEMOS advocated a new Yugoslav confederation in which Slovenia would enjoy virtually full sovereignty and economic independence , but did not rule out holding a referendum on secession if the Yugoslav federal authorities would not accept its plans for a new Slovene constitution , a separate currency , and withdrawal of all Slovene conscripts from the Yugoslav People 's Army . |
| 4 | In an interview last week on the French radio station France Inter 's RadioCom program , Alcatel Alsthom NV president Pierre Suard indicated he did not rule out taking a stake in France Telecom if the latter is privatised by the next administration : ‘ I do n't think the question has been posed today , but when it is , I can tell you that we will study it very seriously , ’ Suard said — ‘ It is essential that France Telecom has a structure that enables it to extend itself beyond France and I think that can come from a new shareholder ; there is industrial logic in the ‘ world 's number one manufacturer of telecommunications equipment ’ owning a stake in a telecommunications operator , ’ he added — ‘ It is the Anglo-Saxon logic ; AT&T is constructed on that basis , but up to now , it has not been European logic , ’ he said . |
| 5 | However , he informed a parliament committee meeting on Jan. 9 that the central government was " working on a comprehensive action plan for revamping the administration in Punjab " , and did not rule out amending the Constitution to provide for more autonomy as long as all other political parties co-operated in the matter . |
| 6 | Bernard told Apricot that to believe in ghosts was to insult God : the souls of the dead went to heaven , purgatory or hell , depending , but did not hang around afflicting the living . |
| 7 | For people did not keep on wearing the same garments , not for eleven , twelve years . |
| 8 | We did n't sit around discussing the past with each other . |
| 9 | She gripped his hand as tightly as she could , feeling a terrific wrench on her shoulders as he tried to haul her in , steadying himself against the door to ensure that he did n't end up suffering the same fate as his companion . |
| 10 | As he intensified the party 's efforts to lure floating voters away from the Liberal Democrats , the Labour leader made clear he had not ruled out holding a referendum on constitutional change . |
| 11 | It was as though a stream had been damned in the heart of the forest and had gradually widened out making the centre of the great bowl they were trying to cross into a swamp . |
| 12 | He had almost given up testing the limits . |