Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How do you explain this since you measured each angle from a different side ? |
| 2 | With a dado rail you would hang all of one type first , but we did n't do this as we needed both pieces wet so we could cut right through the overlap point with a sharp knife and remove both pieces of waste to leave a perfect butt joint . |
| 3 | ‘ I wish you could have talked about this when we had more time , Adam . ’ |
| 4 | She wondered if you would mind very much if they came another time . |
| 5 | In my view the jugular podge would n't show up so much if he had longer hair , but he never gives that coarse mousy matting of his any Lebensraum . |
| 6 | ‘ We improved in as much as we won one game , ’ said North McQuay , secretary of the Irish Bowling Association and an international selector . |
| 7 | But remember the advice of Robin Leigh-Pemberton , governor of the Bank of England : the 12-month inflation rate reflects what happened a year ago as much as what happened last month . |
| 8 | This academic study was seen as a means of extending , developing and enriching the student 's mind and , in as much as it fulfilled this function , had much to commend it . |
| 9 | The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier . |
| 10 | The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago . |
| 11 | At the time , Jean-Claude was paralysed with grief , and much as he craved professional recognition , he had no idea how to pursue it . |
| 12 | He hated pettiness as much as he did superficial quotation . |
| 13 | Yeah but you can go like that cos you got long arms . |
| 14 | Then I had a baby every year after that until I had five girls and three boys . |
| 15 | We and customs did n't know much at all till you phoned last night with the stories about the lorries and the baggage handlers at Gatwick . ’ |
| 16 | Gray also reported making three sales ‘ three times as many as I made last year ’ . |
| 17 | Between four and six episodes was Verity Lambert 's ideal length for a story , preferring the latter as it gave more opportunity for character development which , in her belief , audiences appreciated . |
| 18 | He had been Prime Minister for nearly seven years in all when he produced that judgement . |
| 19 | In Christian Aid Week 1985 we raised £2500 more than we did last year . |
| 20 | ‘ In which case it 's unlikely I would have seen any more than I did this afternoon in your garden . ’ |
| 21 | Mrs Merlin and her husband Christopher say radioactive contamination was behind their decision to sell the house , Mountain Ash , Ravenglass , six miles from Sellafield , which fetched only £35,000 — little more than it cost 11 years earlier . |
| 22 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 23 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 24 | Jaffray left them there , and battled across to the shore on his own where he summoned other help . |
| 25 | She made the decision to go out on her own because she wanted more freedom to pursue her many interests . |
| 26 | ‘ It was the same when he got that job on a building site and was sacked after a few days , although they said there was nothing wrong with his work . |
| 27 | Donna 's leader on the DTS is the same as I had 5 years ago ! |
| 28 | Just the same as he loved this woman of Samaria , and because he loved her he wanted to communicate with her , he wanted to share with her , he had something for her . |
| 29 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 30 | You could use a chronic adulter to actually write it a bit easier but er I did n't know about that when I wrote these slides many many years ago and it 's carried on since . |