Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally Travis let himelf down by his arms and dropped to the ground . |
| 2 | Johnny did fight back but the old 1-iron killed him off . |
| 3 | Still , Van Basten did return late from the treatment room to score crucial goals in West Germany last summer . |
| 4 | In the end the NL did become demonstrably pro-Conservative and saw off the IML challenge , but divisions like this played their part in ensuring that the British Navy League was never as large or influential as its German counterpart . |
| 5 | Then Creggan fell silent staring into the night , as Slorne did near by . |
| 6 | Once Auntie Jean did rip through to raw feeling by mentioning the numerous virtues of her former Tory boy , but Ted retaliated by saying ( one evening during his vow of silence ) , ‘ That boy soon saw the light as far as you 're concerned , did n't he ? ’ |
| 7 | If Nevil did come back , even if he was giving away religious tracts , she 'd castrate him before the doorbell had stopped ringing . |
| 8 | Although generally working independently , Cary did collaborate notably with John Wallis , who seemingly inspired his diversification into publishing c .1783/4 , with his brother William in globe production and his brother Francis in engraving , and , most significantly , with William Smith [ q.v. ] and others in developing and publishing geological cartography . |
| 9 | If Ewen does come back , he 'll see the tent , and if he thinks that ‘ Parsons ’ is safely out of the way , then whatever his interest is in the house , he 'll no doubt show it . |
| 10 | ‘ People vary , ’ said Pooley soothingly , ‘ and I have to say that Mr Chatterton does look extremely well . ’ |
| 11 | What Brundle does do well is enthuse , but then I suppose that 's his car salesman training back home . |
| 12 | It was a phrase that Baden-Powell let slip more than once in his speeches and writings in the thickening twilight before war . |
| 13 | At the request of Henry of Trastamara , then seeking to wrest the succession of the kingdom of Castile from his half-brother , Peter , known as ‘ the Cruel ’ , French troops , under du Guesclin , recently ransomed , crossed over into Spain to help bring about the defeat of Peter . |
| 14 | The most recent edition of the Kent county council 's ’ Railing Update ’ ran the headline ’ KCC to help sort out shambles ’ . |
| 15 | But while Ireland did show up a number of flaws in the English team 's make-up , one game does n't make a tournament . |
| 16 | Peyton did move back into some degree of opposition ( now called Whig ) contact , and he was involved on the peripheries of the 1682–3 Rye House plot . |
| 17 | However , Sutherland and Cressey do go on to include a consideration of poverty , unemployment , bad housing , and the like , under the heading of ‘ social situations which are most conducive to crime ’ . |
| 18 | Ronni did smile then . |
| 19 | Post-MacBride , Yeats revived his suit and , according to Yeatsians , he and Maud did sleep together once , c 1907 . |
| 20 | Alexander did explain how to use it but … |
| 21 | But Pete did stay around , and they live together in her parents ' house with their nine-month-old baby . |
| 22 | It 's attractive , and it 's better , but Borland did miss out on some obvious improvements . |
| 23 | Thomson does push ahead at the risoluto marking in the third movement slightly more than I care for , and there are one or two idiosyncratic touches elsewhere , albeit of little importance . |
| 24 | Corinth 's north-western interests were threatened more directly by the affair of Corcyra , which is one of the two ‘ alleged reasons ’ which Thucydides does describe fully . |
| 25 | Labour will work in the United Nations , the Commonwealth , the European Community and NATO to help bring about the peaceful reunification of Cyprus , on the federal basis advocated by the sovereign government of Cyprus . |
| 26 | In 1802 William Jowett was to sail to Jamaica to help sort out his father 's affairs , having acted until then as an accountant for his uncle William at Cotes , Titford and Brookes . |
| 27 | ‘ We act as back up to the contractors and commissioning teams who call in TSDO to help sort out problems large and small , which I am happy to say we do quickly in the vast majority of cases . ’ |
| 28 | However Mr Wilson did point out to Sunday Life : ‘ I would be prepared to defend my country if it was forced into a United Ireland . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , Benelux did advance further than other proposals for economic union , such as that toyed at in 1945 and again in 1948 by France and Italy , and perhaps it offered valuable lessons that could be learnt by future attempts in the same direction . |
| 30 | The Mancs do get ludicrously self-righteous about it , like they chant only Mary-Whitehouse-approved stuff . |