Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know sweetheart I have often wondered since I knew about things whether a brother or sister ever did love with such a love as ours . |
| 2 | Ing C Olivetti & Co yesterday confirmed its rumoured alliance with Mountain View , California-based personal communicator developer Eo Inc , ( CI No 2,061 ) which also has partnerships with AT&T Co in the US , and Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co and Marubeni Corp in Japan . |
| 3 | Martyn Maxey of Max & Co recently welcomed Mac as Technical Director of the salon . |
| 4 | Some of them have been got at by the plant-breeders and bear no resemblance to the species or variety originally discovered ; some remain the same , being already sufficiently beautiful or useful . |
| 5 | Those who bemoan the weakening of the governmental role of parliaments are not only failing to bear English history in mind where Parliament never had that role , they are forgetting continental history as well . |
| 6 | Since under Israeli law a minister 's dismissal or resignation only took effect 48 hours after the initial announcement was made , Shamir left just enough time to clear the Cabinet of Labour ministers before the Knesset vote . |
| 7 | A rent terrier for 1760–66 reveals that Atkinson & Hall together paid a total of £172 in rent . |
| 8 | Then it 's like a whirlwind , reaping havoc where peace once reigned . |
| 9 | Thick was the snow on field and hedge And vanished with the river 's edge , Where winter skilfully had wound A shining scarf without a sound . |
| 10 | Yet some form of coercion or compulsion still resulted from what he considered it right for him to do in certain circumstances . |
| 11 | An excess of nutrition has produced as many great fighters as hunger or poverty ever did . |
| 12 | Only where revolution still seemed the only plausible solution for the conditions of the labouring poor , or where — as in France — the tradition of insurrection and the revolutionary social republic was the dominant political tradition of the working people , was ‘ respectability ’ a relatively insignificant factor , or confined to the middle classes and those who wished to be identified with them . |
| 13 | There is cracked mud where water once rushed through the mill race on the Ver , near St Albans , Herts . |
| 14 | There was a slight hollow in the field beyond the old fortifications to the east of Thorpe Manor where water sometimes collected . |
| 15 | Men in regular employment found their real wages rising and many families moved out to the new housing estates , where evidence rapidly came to light of female depression arising primarily from physical isolation . |
| 16 | This show promises a memorable evening 's entertainment — as The Stage & Television Today said : ‘ Both amusing and poignant , Wilde Tales leaves the viewer quite dazzled . ’ |
| 17 | Chappell & Co. now appealed to the House of Lords . |
| 18 | Of the 24 shareholders Haug & Co. now held 9¾ shares having released 1¼ since 1564 ; Sir William Cecill with 2 was the second major shareholder . |
| 19 | His personal attention — ‘ rain , snow or frost never kept him in ’ — and his scrupulousness in the matter of estimates gradually secured country house clients , but his expertise as a house planner took time to develop . |
| 20 | The labour camps , temperatures of 50 degrees below zero , a lifetime condemned to stare out over thousands of miles of the bleak , barren permafrost , where blindness eventually came as a minor blessing . |
| 21 | Cable & Wireless also enjoyed a rally , leaping 9p to 653p following a 16% rise in Hong Kong Telecom 's interim figures . |
| 22 | Black & Decker also produced the same model , but with a constant speed , the BD75 . |
| 23 | In the countryside , matters were no better ; the smaller shops in the villages and towns often produced insufficient income to support a family , so that the wife or daughter often looked after it while the man pursued another occupation . |
| 24 | I had the dubious pleasure , after Second Reading , of trying to pilot the House of Lords reform Bill through the House many years ago , when we found that the divisions were on both sides of the House and any idea that one could timetable or guillotine soon went out of the window . |
| 25 | Another factor is whether or not the death of a plant or animal necessarily coincided with the point at which it ceased to exchange carbon with the environment . |
| 26 | Not a drop of gin or brandy ever touched me lips in all me born days . |
| 27 | At Steeple Claydon , on the other hand , where nine land assessments compare with only three actual freeholders , there were some fifty inhabitants all told , of whom only four drew income from land.l Either custom or convention hereabouts militated against subletting , or officials in the Buckingham hundreds ignored land that was not freehold , for far fewer owners were recorded there than in the remainder of the county . |
| 28 | In both a change of ruler or minister often had drastic repercussions , particularly on the conduct of foreign policy . |
| 29 | For some peoples , the physical universe or a basic element such as water or earth always existed , an the gods arose from it . |
| 30 | So Honey 's owner decided to get a helper to hold a bucket of oats and alfalfa chaff for Honey to eat while she herself mounted her , and this was done in such a relaxed and calm fashion that Honey also remained calm and went on eating . |