Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then he got on to explain what the items were , seventy five percent of the items went next day , and ninety thousand went , I 'm sorry , and er , and twenty five percent went two day , three day , and if you divide one into the other , what it means is that two point one consignments two me , sorry , two point one items per consignment went Express , and six items per consignment , general . |
| 2 | ‘ England , of course , and the southeast , ’ and it goes on to give you the dates , the times , the places and contacts and so forth . |
| 3 | Rick points out that the Manson features a compound radius fingerboard , and goes on to say what an excellent idea this is and that it is a pity that only custom builders are able to implement this feature properly . |
| 4 | I 'd want to go on seeing you a lot , though . ’ |
| 5 | Well , now there is , as long as they 're allowed to go on calling it a Healey . |
| 6 | I was wearier , I was more tolerant , that was the only difference and that change only enabled me the better to accept what I 'd always been . |
| 7 | The question of diet generally for elderly people has already been mentioned in Chapter 3 , and all who are trying to ensure that an elderly parent ( particularly one who is living alone ) is eating sensibly know what a difficult problem this is . |
| 8 | Philosophy has effectively challenged what the theologian often persists in seeing as the ‘ proofs ’ of God 's existence which he or she must hang on to in order to have an absolutely secure and certain faith . |
| 9 | Thrill-seeking impulses led them to many momentary and immediate adventures , and it was this period of his life he referred to when he said he had never been in an orgy of more than three people , although he tried ineffectively to promote it a time or two . |
| 10 | He is well liked and sticks to his brief come what may — a tactic that has rightly earned him the nickname of the ’ Bardic steamroller ’ . |
| 11 | Even in rugby , the Afrikaners ' passion , the formation of a single non-racial administrative body is imminent ; the octogenarian rugby boss , Danie Craven , has long thought it a game for robust men of all races , and in 1988 angered Mr de Klerk by sending an emissary to contact , among others , the African National Congress — one of whose leaders is now working to dismantle the boycott . |
| 12 | He has only expressed what a lot of other people have been starting to fear for a long time , that unless the commercial manipulators in tennis are careful , they could cook the golden goose . |
| 13 | She comments , ‘ I doubt if my working life has been well organised enough to call it a career , but running various businesses has been very satisfying ’ . |
| 14 | Whereupon , Dustin , at around 3 a. m. , phoned Murray Schisgal 's room to tell him to come down to hear what the Englishmen had to say about his play . |
| 15 | Daily contact with infants in the crèche ( next to the sixth-form coffee bar ) , the elderly , the frail , the physically and mentally disabled , employed people who come to us for literacy support or computing courses , active retired people attending daytime A-level classes , members of the community using our library , students on the threshold of professional careers in music playing with non-too-gifted amateurs engaged in recreation , academically-gifted students about to enter university engaged in social work with our special-needs students , has perhaps given us an unusually clear insight into the different ways people need and want education and the different circumstances in which it enriches their lives . |
| 16 | The Government has thus done what no government before has done — it has given an inferior tribunal the power to determine the extent of its own jurisdiction . |
| 17 | ‘ I should be honoured to have your company at dinner , Miss Leonora X. Whenever you 're ready to come downstairs give me a shout and I 'll come and collect you . |
| 18 | ‘ The arrival of another SeaCat vessel in May certainly has not hit us the way some people expected . |
| 19 | If your lecturer has not given you a book list , get one of your larger colleagues to persuade him to do so . |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't you know God has not given you the spirit of fear but of love and a sound mind ? ’ |
| 21 | This need for careful definition is ignored completely when one simply asks a panel of experts to name people with political power — one has not told them the criteria that they should use for judging whether an individual has power , and neither does one know whether the individuals have used even similar criteria for ascribing power to the individuals whose names they submit . |
| 22 | The hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) has huffed and puffed , but he has not told us the Labour party 's position on a single proposal contained in the Green Paper . |
| 23 | This afternoon , he has treated the House to an extraordinary collection of half-truths and inaccuracies , but he has not told us the Labour party 's attitude to the proposals that I identified in the statement . |
| 24 | I also know that your informant there has not told you the truth . |
| 25 | Quite deliberately the storyteller has not reported what the runner told the people of the town . |
| 26 | He has not paid himself a proper wage for four months . |
| 27 | As John Fairchild noted in his book The Fashionable Savages in 1965 : ‘ She looks best wearing what no one else would ever wear , something so simple another lady would n't dare … |
| 28 | She watched , round-eyed , as several men-at-arms , pikes in hand , marched by on their way through the gate , and tried not to imagine herself a prisoner in their charge . |
| 29 | I was so grateful that somebody has finally told me the reason why I was miscarrying . ’ |
| 30 | Then he discovers the bar owner doubles up as the town sheriff and that gunman Lyle has just given him a lift . |