Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes right thought for ages and he thought right what do I really need ? |
| 2 | In order to overcome the problems of a mechanism becoming inadvertently disassembled by component changes , the development of an automated associative procedure was considered . |
| 3 | Lugar also served as county surveyor for Essex from 1812 to 1816 , and became a freeman of Colchester in 1812 . |
| 4 | Cook also referred to Diplock 's ‘ evident distaste for trade unions ’ and said it was well known that ‘ taps ’ were frequently placed on trade unionists involved in trade disputes . |
| 5 | I learnt this lesson some years ago when the soldier to whom I referred earlier came to Christ . |
| 6 | There could be few better ways of becoming tolerably wellinformed about Matteo Ricci , Hugo Grotius , Matthew Wren , Prince Rupert or Rapin de Thoyras ( among others ) than to turn to this collection . |
| 7 | ‘ I used ter sit at me front door when the weavver was good , an' when it was cold I used ter lay in bed till dinner-time . |
| 8 | During the twenty-nine years between 1660 and 1689 , many thousands of nonconformists chose to disregard the Code and participate in secret ‘ conventicles ’ ; many hundreds of them who were caught subsequently languished for years in gaol . |
| 9 | By the time of this conference on 21 May , the immediate future of one of the six formations listed above had in fact already been determined . |
| 10 | Why did he always feel so intimidated by Viola Machin ? |
| 11 | Half a mile away smoke still rose from Dangerfield 's machine , where he had crash-landed on fire after stopping a burst of tracer in the wing . |
| 12 | Jem still lived at home — was that why Lucy had no lovers ? |
| 13 | The proportion severely disabled also differed with gender , women living alone being considerably more likely to be disabled than men living alone , at all ages . |
| 14 | He and his Thai counterpart Anand Panyarachun signed on Feb. 19 a friendship and co-operation treaty ; Khamtay also met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand and an agreement was concluded under which Thailand would help to develop tourism in Laos . |
| 15 | All this sounded remarkably easy to accomplish , as invasion plans invariably did on paper . |
| 16 | Certainly , he can not possibly have felt seriously menaced by rumours of a mystical or spiritual figure — a prophet or a teacher of the kind in which the Holy Land at the time abounded . |
| 17 | Some , encouraged by the EOC have offered Women into Accounting , Women into Management and Women into Public Life courses , aimed at women trying to break into areas of employment and influence usually monopolised by men . |
| 18 | In the miners ' dispute Lord Wilberforce became deeply enmeshed in job evaluation , the social and physical conditions in the pits and , above all , the need to produce a settlement under which the miners would go back to work . |
| 19 | By the way I just wanted to say I went out and got totally plastered on Saturday night , came home and watched those goals from Match Of The Day about six times . |
| 20 | Operating costs also fell to 23% from 25% of turnover due to ‘ effective working capital management ’ , or careful attention to inventory levels and debtor activity . |
| 21 | Operating costs also fell to 23% from 25% of turnover due to ‘ effective working capital management ’ , or careful attention to inventory levels and debtor activity . |
| 22 | Two styles of pole floats immediately came to hand , the series X and the series S. Both floats had correctly shaped bodies — reversed pear — and at First glance appear quite similar . |
| 23 | Suddenly at this culmination point in the healing rite , the whole assembly became unaccountably convulsed with mirth , and the puzzled anthropologist , note-book at the ready , pushed her way forward to the front of the crowd . |
| 24 | Baudrillard goes even further than this by suggesting that the whole of contemporary life is dedicated to consumption and communication in a way which has become wholly disconnected from meaning and content . |
| 25 | Lab work , for example , was a matter of getting the ‘ right ’ answer ; failure to do so resulted in loss of marks . |
| 26 | We have become so habituated to market relations that it can seem merely banal to observe that types of work which make a loss will , within market production , be reduced or discontinued , while types which make a profit will be expanded . |
| 27 | And she got herself ready for bed and you know just went to bed by herself . |
| 28 | The prejudices had built up over centuries but had become more accentuated since independence in 1948 . |
| 29 | Graphite mining also expanded in Kurunagala and Kagalla . |
| 30 | Staff in such hospitals have become increasingly demoralized by criticism and standards have easily declined as a result . |