Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the other three cases where direct support was given , the client was not thought to need extra help ; the development officer felt however that the informal carer needed support and she therefore visited once or twice a week for that purpose . |
| 2 | Harriet 's voice rose aggressively and then the receiver was slammed down . |
| 3 | So that he could find out just what environmental factors decide where and when individuals hunt for insect food , Jens Rydell , of the University of Lund in Sweden , drove once or twice a week along a 27km route through the countryside , in the south of Sweden , starting a few hours after sunset . |
| 4 | The jets came home and then the maintenance and support staff . |
| 5 | They want to find out why the men drove there and how the truck caught fire . |
| 6 | And erm well this became more or less the policy of the union . |
| 7 | However , as the medical picture became more clear , there became more and more a sense of underlying tension , with heroic care being delivered by people possessing the knowledge that it was n't going to work . |
| 8 | In the unpublished manuscript — a cluster of unorganised memories about Christmas ( and , incidentally , like most of his private jottings , more vivid than anything he published ) — he describes what became more and more the norm . |
| 9 | Then , as Mike became more and more the lead guitarist , I played more and more bass . |
| 10 | The profit of the company is partially shared with employees and a payment made once or twice a year . |
| 11 | As long as power oscillated between two evenly-balanced parties , who shared more or less the whole of the vote , the election of a minority government did n't matter too much . |
| 12 | Richard opened slowly and then the cock was in and he could see only Martin 's glistening blond hair between his legs . |
| 13 | The defendant had placed himself in a position where his duty and interest conflicted even though both the employee and client appear to have had no intention of remaining with the plaintiff . |
| 14 | The company , which has been beset by overwhelming demand for its budget lines , says that it expects to balance supply with demand for most of its products during the current quarter — although it shipped more than twice the number of machines in fourth quarter 1992 as it did in the 1991 period , the backlog has continued into the current quarter . |
| 15 | It is possible to argue that he wrote in the proportion to which each location claimed or received his spans of time and attention — and as he spent more than twice the length of time out on the islands as he did getting there , the greater part of his book addresses the west . |
| 16 | A querulous voice told him to go and jump in the Thames so he knocked again and eventually the door swung open to reveal a tall , gaunt figure , dressed in a long robe of dyed brown fur . |
| 17 | School holidays started soon and maybe a pet would help to keep them out of mischief . |
| 18 | As we have seen , some of the earlier and more enthusiastic apologists for pluralism , such as Dahl and Plamenatz , did suggest both that the spread of pressure and interest groups covered more or less the whole of society and also that such groups competed with each other on a roughly equal basis . |
| 19 | It solved efficiently and finally the problem of how to construct a circular form upon a square one . |
| 20 | A Land Rover mechanic replaced the stabiliser unit behind the dash — the fuel gauge worked again but not the temperature gauge . |
| 21 | They then persuaded the 8 highest scorers on their questionnaires who " dreamed every night " , as well as the 8 lowest scorers , who " dreamed less than once a month " to submit to laboratory recordings and wakenings during the night . |
| 22 | Her flesh fell away and only the impression of her face was left upon the wood . |
| 23 | My constituent felt strongly that neither the amount on offer from the student loans scheme nor the money available from the postgraduate access fund would be enough to compensate for the loss of housing benefit to her undergraduate daughter or to her elder daughter , who was on the postgraduate music course . |
| 24 | They painted an enticing portrait of the bliss that lay ahead if only the peasantry would heed their call and rise up against the established order . |
| 25 | I became there and then the cricket fanatic I have remained ever since , ’ he recalled in Maurice Tate ( 1976 ) . |
| 26 | In cases where there was more than one accused , it was not unusual to discover that some evidence was admissible against one accused only and not the other accused . |
| 27 | TO PREPARE MYSELF for this latest , and biggest Grudge Match , I run through the list of my opponent 's useful weaknesses : over-caution , middle-pocket anxiety , last-six-colours angst , plus a Plutonic rage whenever snookered more than once a frame . |
| 28 | Disclose directors ' interests in the following transactions : loans , quasi-loans , credit transactions and indirect arrangements agreement to enter into such transactions any other transactions or arrangements in which a director had directly or indirectly a material interest . |
| 29 | Of the outside world , I had more or less no knowledge . |
| 30 | It backed into an empty bay , and shot forward and up the ramp again . |