Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to listen for a good hour while he burbled on about variably apertured annuity options and the like . |
| 2 | They had liked each other , got on with remarkably little rancour and he had been genuinely upset , if principally in his pride , when she had left him . |
| 3 | Like this girl Tracey that he got on with really well , I mean I , I 'd really disliked her , this girl that Claire knows . |
| 4 | If the book is still obtainable , read on from there … |
| 5 | It was the kind of tragedy that so often called for sympathy — a momentary sympathy and thrill of horror , mixed with shamefaced satisfaction that it had happened to someone else -before one passed on to less disturbing news . |
| 6 | Let me turn you to a er a little incident that happened with the erm , in the life of Jesus , it 's in Matthew chapter nine and , just gon na read I think it 's three verses there Now let's pick it up at verse twenty seven , this is in and Jesus passed on from there . |
| 7 | for it and he said well , well er basically it just got down to well if you kiss me I 'll give it to you and then , and then he decided that if I kissed him |
| 8 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 9 | It went straight across the area where Deane wellied in from about 6yds . |
| 10 | The simplistic and rigid line of interpretation laid down from above culminated in the publication in 1938 of the authorized History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( Bolsheviks ) ; Short Course . |
| 11 | Dunedin House was built by the surgeon J. S. Land in the mid 19th century , and lived in for over 50 years this century by the late Dr Cripps , Medical Officer of Health for the Holderness area . |
| 12 | Through all the Bird generations it passed down to today . |
| 13 | I do n't know what size gun it was , you know , or any details but that 's what we found out what the bang was and it , it moved on to somewhere else , they did n't fire it again . |
| 14 | From Figuration Libre painters , each portrayed in his own iconographical universe , he moved on to more natural , less intrusive backgrounds in his silkscreen-on-metal prints of Tunisian children or Berliners celebrating the fall of the Wall . |
| 15 | Having dealt with a less than happy situation Mr Vernon moved on to more pleasant matters , reminding the meeting of the Headquarters and Depot Open Days in August and of the warm reception shown to the public by those who man the lifeboat stations . |
| 16 | What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ? |
| 17 | Other symptoms were deemed to be present if they occurred on at least a quarter of the days or occasions , except that passage of mucus was taken as a symptom if it had ever occurred ( this being normal clinical practice ) . |
| 18 | It was a happy phrase which made people feel better , and it caught on at once ; and it has remained as a convenient label to cover the series of domestic reforms which the Roosevelt administration introduced between 1933 and 1938 . |
| 19 | As S. A. Pain put it , ‘ The idea caught on at once , the station was built , and received its famous name ’ . |
| 20 | It caught on over here some years later with the Seven Men of Preston setting the trend . |
| 21 | The argument ground on for almost two years , in a mood of escalating resentment and bitterness . |
| 22 | To the left , parallel to the automatic system , was a manual system ; you changed down by simply pushing the lever forward . |
| 23 | Thus , a cell resulting from the fusion of cells R and M is referred to as cell R + M. The advantage of this relatively simple system of nomenclature is evident in the so-called discal cell , a term used in at least four separate orders of insects with reference to a different cell in each case . |
| 24 | That new portable interpreter for Ken Iverson 's J notation of his APL language ( CI No 2,138 ) is yet another piece of bad news for IBM Corp 's mainframe business , because all the so-called rocket scientists at firms like Morgan Stanley & Co — for whom J developer Roger Hui works — that write the fiendishly clever software that is used in program trading of shares on Wall Street , use the APL language — on IBM mainframes , and J promises to enable the software to moved down to much cheaper RISC-based boxes . |
| 25 | Kylie Ann Minogue weighed in at just over 6lbs and was immediately established as the darling not only for the Minogues and their friends , but of mum Carol 's network of relatives who had emigrated with her from Wales to Australia . |
| 26 | Luckily this family all weighed in at over 15 grammes … and that means enough fat to see them through the winter . |
| 27 | Little Colin Patterson returned to the Jubilee Maternity Hospital with his mum Karen to celebrate his first birthday and to hand over a cheque for £675 to the neo natal unit , where he weighed in at only 2lb 14ozs . |
| 28 | Ann Marie 's cousin , Chloe Marsh , now almost two , weighed in at only two pounds after being born prematurely at the hospital . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , relapse occurred in at least half of the responders after treatment was discontinued . |
| 30 | As Godoy claimed , the Tumult of Aranjuez was the work of seduced plebeians , a revolution that seeped down from above . |