Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb infin] [pron] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as efficient as ever , ‘ You 'd better have my phone number here just in case you need to tie up with me on anything , ’ she decided , and , giving her number , paused only long enough for Fabia to take it down and was then asking , ‘ Well ? ’ |
| 2 | But you 'd best call my brother Mr Evans . |
| 3 | When I was finished with her , I would make sure she did not give our hiding place away . |
| 4 | Anselm supported Henry , and he did not make his support conditional on Henry 's acceptance of the new papal decrees . |
| 5 | He did not make his pile opening bazaars you feel sure . |
| 6 | It goes without saying that his accomplishments did not match his campaign rhetoric — taxes were increased , the state budget more than doubled while he was in office and there were no significant reductions in the size of the state workforce yet his ‘ record in Sacramento is generally regarded as favorable ’ . |
| 7 | The first time I did not pay his passage money . |
| 8 | You are a foreigner with no settled establishment , you did not pay your hotel bill at Sècheron , and you have a horseless cabriolet that smacks of strange powers ! ’ |
| 9 | But because Mrs did that work with you yesterday you did not do your history work , so I 'm going to talk to you a bit and ask you some questions about the tiny bit we talked about to do with Roman Britain and how the Romans invaded Britain two thousand years ago . |
| 10 | Eastman Kodak put Interactive on the block at least six months ago because it did not fit its core business interests . |
| 11 | As Simon did not answer his question Hugh lay watching the sunlight on the water through the open door . |
| 12 | The European Communities ( EC ) did not abandon their peace efforts but could claim no concrete progress by the end of the month . |
| 13 | These subjects may therefore have been having the same sorts of experience as " dreamers " , but did not label their REM sleep experiences as " dreams " , but " thinking " . |
| 14 | What is , however , essential is that Posidonius was very worried about the social turbulence of his time , even if it did not affect his home island , Rhodes , as seriously as the Greek mainland . |
| 15 | For example , a group of people I studied in Madagascar changed their marriage system in response to changing economic circumstances but did not adjust their kinship terminology [ Bloch , 1975 ] . |
| 16 | Iraq , which is thought to have capacity to produce at least twice as much oil as Kuwait , did not send its oil minister to the OPEC talks — an indication that the authorities in Baghdad do not expect an early resumption of export trading . |
| 17 | Indeed , in Merton 's two only ‘ proper ’ jobs , his propensity for sudden comic interludes did not accelerate his career path . |
| 18 | In mentioning the directive er can I er pause very briefly er Mr Deputy Speaker to apologise to the house that this document was not made available at the draft stage er an unfortunate combination of human error and several failures of communications meant that the select committee was deprived of the opportunity to consider the directive at its draft stage , er I 've noticed the select committee 's report which has been put in the vote office in the usual way and acknowledge the government did not meet its scrutiny obligations with regard to this document in the normal means . |
| 19 | This did not prevent his offering Baldwin the Exchequer before he had kissed hands . |
| 20 | Even when the Senate 's own inquiry reported that his charges were ‘ a fraud and a hoax ’ it did not stop his rocket rise to influence . |
| 21 | Over 90 per cent of the women in the sample felt that tax rates did not influence their work behaviour , with the remainder being about equally divided between the other two options . |
| 22 | She had n't told him much except that she did not like her neighbour Fireman Mosse and blamed him for the death of his wife . |
| 23 | Unlike Stalin and Khruschev , Elena did not use her dilettante approach to science to promote a bogus figure like the Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko — though it must be admitted that Nicolae Ceauşescu 's interventions in agricultural practice often recalled the half-baked interference of Lysenko 's patron , Khruschev . |
| 24 | Their ancient adversaries , the spiders , never developed wings , but they did not allow their insect prey to escape totally . |
| 25 | John did not have his brother Bobby 's ease on a platform but he had more integrity and honesty and he knew he had to do it . |
| 26 | We may reasonably assume from Franco 's portly appearance throughout the " hungry years " that dolphin sandwiches and low-quality fish did not constitute his staple diet . |
| 27 | Britain ratified the Convention in 1951 but did not accept its enforcement machinery until 1966 , and its impact on English law was not apparent until the next decade , when the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg began to hand down decisions holding the United Kingdom in breach of the Convention for failures to guarantee certain basic rights to its citizens . |
| 28 | We had trouble attracting money from peopleBarry Lloyd thinks people did not understand his health problems . |
| 29 | Civilized people , in her view , did not include her aunt Evelina or cousin Tina or the idealistic vegetable gardeners . |
| 30 | With the end of the First World War , the Germans left , but did not remove their client State . |