Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet I tried and tried for over a week thinking I ought to for his sake . |
| 2 | It was illogical to accept that an accord and satisfaction fell within s 286(5) but fell outside s 287(1) , which referred to where a company releases or writes off the whole or part of the debt . |
| 3 | ‘ Lomax ! ’ she snapped , her voice sounding as if it came from inside a biscuit tin . |
| 4 | But no sound came from inside the house ant the lights , he 'd already checked were all off He eased the door right open so it would n't swing and slam . |
| 5 | Dave served in both the New Zealand and British Armies and then the enforcement branch of the New Zealand Wildlife Service . |
| 6 | It was originally a large , stout , hardy draught animal at a time when beef came mainly from plough oxen once they were no longer in prime working condition ( typical of meat production in many countries even now ) and was then developed as a triple-purpose draught , meat and milk type but it soon evolved into essentially a beef animal and in that role its influence worldwide has been immense and far-reaching . |
| 7 | then I went , I went into town a bit later on , come down Manstral Road and there was like a load of traffic there and I got to where the traffic lights are just before you get to the big turning at Manstral Road |
| 8 | Broadly , they have tended to divide into two recognisable breeds ; the ‘ big idea ’ exponents ( Porter on competitive advantage , Warren Bennis and Britain 's John Adair on leadership , Theodore Levitt on marketing , Edward de Bono on lateral thinking ) and the protean thinkers who scan the horizons of work and society ( Peter , Handy and Drucker , who thought of almost every management concept from ‘ management by objectives ’ to privatization a generation before anyone else ) . |
| 9 | Looking over his shoulder he saw at once the brass bedstead , and the sewing-machine table on top of which Stanley had said he would find the boxes of glass balls . |
| 10 | In 1908 Russell wrote of how the club movement sought to emulate the schools , ‘ the special pride of the country ’ . |
| 11 | Clearly , then , Professor Usher remains convinced that the baby had at least an 80% chance of survival , and that Leonard Arthur did prescribe the drug with the intention of causing the child 's death , especially in view of Dr Arthur 's comments on his philosophical attitude to this type of situation . |
| 12 | I 'm standing there the silly bloke , he stood near where the gas equipment was and I was standing there both hands clenched ready for him to start saying something ! |