Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The YCs got punished more than anybody else and had a really hard time . |
| 2 | It was a matter of very small beginnings for everybody , and then as the pictures that they made became more and more popular , more and more acceptable , used not merely in fairgrounds or in odd corners of shops and this sort of thing , for the odd fifteen minutes or twenty minutes of movie , but entered into the music halls , became one of the acts in the music hall entertainment erm this really was the foundation of a new industry , a new industry of entertainment , a new industry of information . |
| 3 | Where goods are not durable , the mischief lies not in the fact that they ceased to perform adequately but rather that , at the date of supply , they did not have the capacity to endure . |
| 4 | The committee was at first divided over the proposal , with Betty Sinclair opposing the whole idea of protest marches , and a decision was deferred to a later meeting , which agreed to go ahead and fixed the date for 24 August . |
| 5 | A good deal has happened since that important Church meeting last June when we agreed to go ahead and purchase the building from the Church of Scotland for £1 . |
| 6 | Just as well you agreed to go quietly when Kenneth suggested it was time you went to bed ; though apparently he and Hamish practically had to carry you upstairs , and the whole way up you were muttering something vile about Lewis being thrown naked into a tub of starving Elephant Leeches . ’ |
| 7 | IN THE HOME , as in industry , it is overwhelmingly men who are the designers and repairers of machines , while women are the operators , expected to perform neatly and swiftly on typewriters , sewing machines and the rest , but not to understand how they work . |
| 8 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
| 9 | Whilst it rendered the monarch formally subordinate to Parliament in the sense that it became acknowledged that , at the end of the day , the will of Parliament was to prevail , it failed to provide adequately and efficiently for the discharge of executive government . |
| 10 | One night there was a little backdrop of a painted garden , and in front of it two new boys were doing a strip routine to the original ‘ Let's Stay Together ’ ; but then they got carried away and ended up just leaning against the wall together , leaning up against the painted flowerbeds and the little painted bridge , just kissing and making love right there , for at least forty minutes , nobody minded . |
| 11 | I had not even finished writing this before I got carried away and bought myself another Christmas present — a Synodontis angelicus . |
| 12 | Supposing one of them got carried away and hit the old boy too hard . |
| 13 | After that , Mabel got carried away and bought some china cups — on sale at bargain prices , because they had lost their matching saucers — and Florrie bought a cobweb brush with a special extending cane handle , for getting up into those awkward comers of the ceiling . |
| 14 | In order to keep the boys separate from the girls he used to draw a chalk line down the middle of our meeting room , and when we got carried away and crossed the line he would burst into a ferocious rage , pick up anything that was to hand — usually a book — and throw it at the offender , who had to duck fast in order not to be hit . |
| 15 | Julian Wood , a partner with liquidators Sterling Ford , said there are ‘ significant deficiencies ’ with losses expected to total more than £200,000 . |
| 16 | The council 's working party on grants to cultural organisations took no decision on payments expected to total more than £2 million in 1993-94 . |
| 17 | H well , back to obscurity , ’ a Tory MP muttered to his colleague yesterday as they passed a journalist who failed to leap forward and solicit their views on the party leadership . |
| 18 | Mother went to visit her relatives in Hungary , near Szeged , and got caught there when the Russians advanced . |
| 19 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 20 | Foley , of Finchley , north London , admitted driving recklessly while unfit through drink or drugs . |
| 21 | At a mass meeting today members of NALGO agreed to work normally until the results of that meeting , on April 17 , are known . |
| 22 | He is perching on the railway , six stops down the line , with a stationmaster he got to know somehow when he was on the town in Petersburg — the Dostoevsky no-home at its most stripped and strange in this novel of aimless movement . |
| 23 | I actually advised him at the meeting that he should not and could n't take that motion , and I was by Alderman in that situation , but he still deemed to go ahead and that 's p his prerogative . |
| 24 | Despite these optimistic thoughts , and his excitement , Ybreska stopped singing abruptly as he began to walk along the track . |
| 25 | I must be crazy , I thought , and tried to breathe deeply and steadily . |
| 26 | I stopped knitting again and stared . |
| 27 | But in 1981 I tried to go further and identify a set of criteria which any proposed biochemical or cellular correspondent of memory formation would have to meet if it was to be regarded as a candidate memory process . |
| 28 | He tried to go solo but was quickly apprehended and subsequently jailed . |
| 29 | He stopped climbing only when he was too exhausted to climb any higher . |
| 30 | Like Maxwell , smoothy Hunter tried to come across as everyone 's friend , especially at Christmas when , dressed as Santa , he handed gifts to children of staff . |