Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not , Franca found on opening it , ventured to hang anything inside the long wardrobe which stretched the length of the big bedroom . |
| 2 | If the mixture of live action and 2-D animation achieved surprising commercial success in the late 1980s ( $78m rentals , justifying a cost of over $50m ) , the combination of live action with 3-D animation seemed to reach something of a dead end with Clash of the Titans ( 1981 ) . |
| 3 | Unfortunately THE CHARWALLAS ( UK ) were either too drunk or too gobsmacked to say anything to the pointy-chested one , only managing a mumbled ‘ Hi ’ . |
| 4 | When he moved in the house had five bedrooms , so he decided to convert one on the first floor into an en suite bathroom . |
| 5 | He found his colleague struggling with two youths , and managed to arrest one after a brief chase . |
| 6 | All those things that had once appealed to every instinct inside her for excitement failed to arouse anything but a nagging desire to look at her watch and wonder what time she could reasonably convince André that it was time to leave . |
| 7 | I mean we used to do the annual report because the R C E had to provide something to the General Manager |
| 8 | No one disputes that the Tribune Company , publisher of the Chicago Tribune among other papers , had to do something about the decade-long trickle of losses at the Daily News , America 's oldest tabloid and New York 's largest-circulation newspaper . |
| 9 | had to have one for a short while , she was quite young and I , we 'd only just moved here and I took her to the vet the used to be in Sandhurst , they said it was a bee sting , they put purple stuff on it |
| 10 | This was particularly so in connection with the sexual adventures hinted at in the title — adventures which became a sort of leitmotif , in that the author seemed to feel he had to have one in every seven or eight pages , preferably with some piquant variation . |
| 11 | ‘ Above all , the British industrial revolution was a regional phenomenon ’ ( Pollard , 1981 ) ; but often pioneering regions , four declined soon after they had made their vital contribution ( Cornwall , Shropshire , North Wales and the Derbyshire uplands ) , while two more ( Tyneside and Clydeside ) had to get something like a second wind to survive as centres of expanding metal industries and shipbuilding . |
| 12 | And he had to say something on the bloody tape did n't he ? |
| 13 | Jesus , that had to prove something about the old standards . |
| 14 | Gina , Barbara , Ronnie and Chris Jury , a friend of theirs from Hull University Drama Department days , volunteered to arrange something for the second anniversary of John 's kidnap on 17 April . |
| 15 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 16 | However , it was a year of drought , and at the stud all the mares were given daily feeds of oats and hay to keep them in good condition ; but Minyip , due to long habit , refused to eat anything but the poorest hay . |