Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before she could think or reason she levelled the gun at the face before her and felt herself pull the trigger . |
| 2 | All attempts to heal or tend him failed |
| 3 | However , they have never forgiven or forgotten what happened . |
| 4 | In fact it seems more likely that Picasso felt that the Demoiselles as he decided to accept or leave it represented a truly astonishing challenge with which he himself must come to terms ; obviously if he had been dissatisfied with the look of the painting he would not have left it as it is , and it has been argued that the stylistic discrepancies within the painting are essential to its iconography , to the message which it is intended to convey . |
| 5 | three or four times I had to speak to him last night , and you never said a word , you just pretended or said you did n't hear |
| 6 | His occasional outbursts of anger shocked those around him , but he felt an uncontrollable flame of fury whenever he saw a child being bullied or mistreated which blinded him to all else . |
| 7 | In the later part of the decade , its theories and campaigns seemed to many to be the only active and innovative part of the western feminist movement , and affirming or rejecting it occupied an enormous proportion of feminist writing and talk . |
| 8 | She had forgotten that slip she had made ; she might have known that he would pick her up on it sooner or later . |
| 9 | Now if you want that drink you 'd better tell me where the fridge is so I can get some milk . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The brief as far as I was concerned was not to imitate a dancehall record , not to try and pretend it came from Gussie 's Music Works or it was a Firehouse Crew production or something . |
| 11 | You just have to try and do what got you good results in the first place . |
| 12 | Against the Director 's advice , he 'd decided to despatch Sylvia into occupied France to try and discover what had happened to them . |
| 13 | Johnson 's reflections under the heading of ‘ Coriatachan in Sky ’ amount to only eighteen hundred words or so , yet they constitute the clearest view of him I have had so far , the best opportunity to try and assess what made him . |
| 14 | Er , can I say that it 's been a great pleasure coming er , to you and to say that erm that there 's far more to say , of course , about Canberra er , but I hope that that taster will help you to try and appreciate what went on there . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't think it would be very wise of you to try and get me sent back to London . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been writing short stories and poems for years but last year I decided to try and get something published . |
| 17 | And er when it come to a vote to try and get anything passed or changed the wee branches were solid voting for the national agreement . |
| 18 | ‘ No , ’ Carrie promised and remembered she had once said ‘ Do n't laugh ’ to him . |
| 19 | Contrary to instructions and tired of inactive waiting , they had decided to come and see what went on . |
| 20 | He had heard the commotion and roused himself from his noonday nap to come and see what had caused such an uproar . |
| 21 | Eventually she let him win and asked who told him . |
| 22 | Wexford winced and hoped she had n't seen . |
| 23 | In pure reaction from terror he broke down and wept himself into a deep , swooning sleep as soon as he was alone with his blessed candle ; but when he awoke strangely refreshed and heartened he had his wits again , and could reason about his escape . |
| 24 | But he underlined sharply too , how discouraged and disappointed he had been at the inability of his own Department of Agriculture and the Department of Economic Development to sort out their roles in the scheme of things . |
| 25 | And when he sagged and said he 'd had enough of the place and it was not what he had thought it would be , she said life never was and that if he wanted to stay in Fleet Street he would be foolish to leave without a new job to go to . |
| 26 | Although Charlie was still thin — now a flyweight — and not all that tall , once his seventeenth birthday had come and gone he noticed that the ladies on the corner of the Whitechapel Road , who were still placing white feathers on anyone wearing civilian clothes who looked as if they might be between the ages of eighteen and forty , were beginning to eye him like impatient vultures . |
| 27 | We just thought we 'd better come and explain what had been going on last night . ’ |
| 28 | Now she could only wait and see what happened . |
| 29 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 30 | Associations were formed and meetings held to get people organised and to keep them informed . |