Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [conj] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After dinner they had got lost , because Betty had fallen asleep and failed to note the few signposts and correlate them with the route on the map . |
| 2 | As the dust spun slowly down through the sunlight on to Miss Harker 's silent form , he waited patiently at her elbow like a wizened monkey whose master , the organ-grinder , has fallen asleep and forgotten to start the music . |
| 3 | This may be a perfectly sensible decision based on the fact that one partner snores , or one sleeps poorly and wants to read or listen to the radio without disturbing the other . |
| 4 | But once outside , Dana and I became quarrelsome and started to fight with one another , releasing heaven knows what accumulated stores of fury and resentment . |
| 5 | The horse under me got upset and started bucking , and there were suddenly sheep everywhere , but he calmly rounded them up , put them in a corner and sat watching them . ’ |
| 6 | The court was told the woman became pregnant and had to have an abortion . |
| 7 | As news of it spread , more people became interested and wanted to take part . |
| 8 | I am not sure about the precise details , but I do believe than when Great-Grandfather Tallentire became old and decided to retire he refused to allow his sons to carry on the licence . |
| 9 | At the start of the session the tutor 's notes make clear that directing extends beyond enforcing the conditions of attendance : |
| 10 | Alternatively , rub the surface with lemon , which helps to keep it smelling fresh and reduces staining . |
| 11 | Spain stood very much where she had done when Philip II came to the throne , except that the Netherlands had broken free and had set up an empire based much more on trade than on overseas settlements . |
| 12 | The pins are designed to give way under pressure , allowing damaged engines to fall free and avoid wrecking the aircraft . |
| 13 | Does he pick up the idea quickly or , if he does not , does he stay calm and keep trying until he does ? |
| 14 | In most postwar elections , more men have voted Labour than have voted Conservative , whereas more women have voted Conservative than have voted Labour . |
| 15 | When the pressure difference between top and bottom reaches 5–8 lbf/in 2 ( 34.5–51.2 kPa ) it shows that the bed is becoming clogged and requires cleansing . |
| 16 | It incorporates a separate fly sheet which can be removed during the day to increase light and help keep the dome cool but he refitted in seconds when night falls . |
| 17 | Two days after he returned from the city , Athelstan rose early and went to examine his small garden . |
| 18 | This prevents any stitches becoming snagged and broken causing the filling to shift from its proper place . |
| 19 | Hitcham , furthermore , which contained only seven taxpayers , was so insignificant a place it was surveyed jointly with Dorney , and we can readily imagine the constable becoming confused and forgetting to insert the name of the juvenile lord of the smaller township ; anyone subsequently checking the certificate could be forgiven for failing to realise that the first line referred to the lord of Dorney only . |
| 20 | Charles rose late and managed to beat one of the Swedes into the bathroom . |
| 21 | Donald Findlay , QC , defending , said that Sommerville bitterly regretted his folly at becoming involved and had expressed genuine sorrow , regret and shock at what had happened . |
| 22 | The same approach holds good when planning to use drama as part of a topic . |
| 23 | ‘ Elements ’ are precise descriptions of what people need to be able to do to be considered competent and have associated with them ‘ performance criteria ’ , which are the key indicators used to judge the individual 's level of performance . |
| 24 | You feel it most keenly when you 're walking alone and keep looking behind you , sure that something 's there . |
| 25 | Wells employed two different ways of thinking about the future , which he once labelled undirected and directed thinking . |
| 26 | In most postwar elections , more men have voted Labour than have voted Conservative , whereas more women have voted Conservative than have voted Labour . |
| 27 | Svend Larsen had told him that the farm was becoming vacant and had offered to negotiate for it on the Colonel 's behalf , the islanders not wanting incomers to buy up farms for weekend occupation only . |
| 28 | The second stage is an awareness of , not only the situation we find difficult or are afraid of , but also of the fact that we are becoming anxious and beginning to panic . |
| 29 | The authors have shown that the traditional diagnostic curettage is becoming obsolete but have failed to identify the reason . |
| 30 | But what would happen if and when the universe stopped expanding and began to contract ? |