Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Albrow ( 1986 ) has questioned what he calls the ‘ myth of the heroic struggle ’ in sociology , but it seems clear that many disciplines had to fight hard to gain entry and become established , especially where they appeared to threaten the hegemony of existing disciplines , as English and modern languages did with classics , the social sciences with history , and now perhaps computing with mathematics . |
| 2 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 3 | well we went on a course , for a week up Newcastle and of course er erm we had to be there for nine o'clock so we had to catch the bus , at the latest half past eight so you 're up at you 're up at seven and you get showered and what have you cos there 's a shower in the be bedroom get yourself all ready so you 're down by about erm half seven , quarter to eight , like so you tend to think quarter of an hour to the erm bus stop which is right outside the door of the hotel we were getting so and we use the bus rather than take the car in daily , cos it 's easier so I and er and of course I sat down and had a breakfast and I thoroughly enjo , I did n't have any cereals you know , I says well er and I had a little bit of orange orange juice , but it was this erm made up orange juice |
| 4 | I just heard that Katie here was in so I came to see when she 'd be back on duty , that 's all . |
| 5 | He realised suddenly that he had to go to the bathroom . |
| 6 | Leaving the clinic she realised suddenly that she wanted to go to her garden . |
| 7 | The producers liked the idea so much that they decided to make a two part series full of dancing , celebrations , cookery and food . |
| 8 | It turned out to be a cutting from the Guardian , and contained much that she wanted to know . |
| 9 | I was the only sane one , so although I hated to ask , I took the plunge . |
| 10 | It was enough that she had to work with him . |
| 11 | Pennett was offered a one-season trial on Johnson 's recommendation , and says : ‘ It has so far gone better than I dared to hope . |
| 12 | The truth was that Harry understood Minter better than he cared to admit . |
| 13 | Had n't she always concentrated all her energies on having a good time , even though she knew deep down that she wanted to do more with her life ? |
| 14 | Firstly , nobody , but nobody would want to levy charges until it was a last resort , but if the alternative to levying those charges were perhaps that we had to cut the staffing levels in those adult training centres , then you get a different answer to the question , and I had a meeting about four weeks ago with the heads of some of our centres who 've been asking parents and carers that question . |
| 15 | His successor , Alexander I , was known as ‘ the Fierce ’ , and there were legends of his suppressing an uprising by rebels from Moray so brutally that nobody survived to explain the reasons for their disaffection . |
| 16 | Max made us nail everything so that nobody had to put reverb on anything to cover up a mistake . |
| 17 | This was well below our own dead slow speed so that we had to keep stopping , or steam in wide circles to hold our position astern . |
| 18 | But in the 1950s the first wave of modern consumerism transformed people 's lifestyles so that they came to expect it to be right and natural that they should have consumer durables ( and increasingly non-durable goods ) . |
| 19 | So that they began to hint that I could n't be so very friendly if I was afraid to take them round to meet him . |
| 20 | As the tide rose , the wind shredded the clouds above them and pushed a mighty swell across the water , so that they began to roll as they had once rolled at sea . |
| 21 | Middy snuggled up closer to him , his shadow a small lump on Lowell 's shadow on the ancient walls , so that they seemed to merge like a grotesque pregnancy . |
| 22 | Corridors that sloped down more and more steeply , so that they had to sit and shuffle down the last few metres . |
| 23 | The steps led downwards , there were crumbling stone walls , so that they had to clutch at narrow ropes sunk into the wall at intervals . |
| 24 | He used to pop out and use a pay phone , ringing publishers at awkward times like lunch time so that they had to ring him back . |
| 25 | At night , as they huddled round their fires , the people would murmur about the evil spirit who kicked holes in their kilns so that they had to buy their bricks from Dai Huang . |
| 26 | And dear old Sambo had provided more amusement by purloining the turkey , so that they had to eat the bread-sauce and chestnut stuffing without their raison d'être ! |
| 27 | Several times they fell painfully on jagged rocks , so that they learned to move exceedingly slowly , edging forward and feeling for a foothold , and all the time they could not know whether they were not wandering in aimless circles and approaching no nearer to the security of the forest . |
| 28 | As the blood began once more to course through George 's legs , his muscles went into spasms of cramp , so that they needed to pause every few yards . |
| 29 | It was the introduction of pulsation into their forms so that they appeared to swell and contract rhythmically . |
| 30 | These men were taste-makers , whose judgements were important ; but the time available to them for writing was limited by the demands of negotiation and administration , so that they tended to write essays more than books , catalogue entries rather than articles . |