Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dundee started the day at the foot of the Premier League but looked the superior side as the Glasgow club failed to deal with even the simplest cross into the box . |
| 2 | Fenella began to speak at exactly the same moment that Pumlumon began to intone the Draoicht Suan . |
| 3 | but that was before the sound of constant splashing started to emanate from alongside the closing hole . |
| 4 | Even more amazing is how they managed to arrive at just the right place , and at just the right day and hour required , when not even Charles himself knew where he and his men would be . |
| 5 | Many employers ‘ contracted out ’ of the Graduated Pension Scheme and agreed to pay at least the same amount as their employees would have received from the State under the graduated scheme , from their own occupational scheme . |
| 6 | These were also powerfully promoted by domestic service at a time when even the meanest clerk expected to employ at least a resident maid-of-all-work . |
| 7 | Joan , who is 70 and lives in Formby , filled in her last number at 10.05pm but had to wait till 9am the next day to check if she had won . |
| 8 | Milling and baking continued to account for over a third of these totals and grocery products , particularly the enlarged fruit juice business , made strong gains in both sales and profit , along with the United States branch after rationalisation and the tomato products acquisition . |
| 9 | Milling and baking continued to account for over a third of these totals and grocery products , particularly the enlarged fruit juice business , made strong gains in both sales and profit , along with the United States branch after rationalisation and the tomato products acquisition . |
| 10 | That was an essential b eventually that was taken away , but the building trade still believed if a building firm wanted men , they had to have at least a thirty two hour guarantee , which is at present still in operation . |
| 11 | The fact that ‘ official ’ criminals were overwhelmingly from the working class and were seen to be responding to the same forces that promoted socialist consciousness tended to favour at least a positive , if not heroic view of their activities . |
| 12 | As many as 35 per cent took jobs which they regarded as " stop-gap " or in which they intended to stay for only a short period . |