Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there 's quite a few stopped going to the club with women not being well and their legs bad and |
| 2 | Some stopped dividing after a few hours and remained generalised in form and in dense clusters . |
| 3 | The parameters by which one such unit was distinguished from another varied according to the occasion but might include skin colour , stature , style of dress , morality , intelligence , language , religion , geographical locality and mode of subsistence , but there was always a clear presumption that the different kinds of criteria physical , cultural , linguistic , regional , institutional , economic — were all coincident . |
| 4 | This included backing for the plan to construct a ‘ family ’ of PWRs . |
| 5 | This meant grappling with a panic that was like an asphyxiation . |
| 6 | And they have all this dusted icing on the outside . |
| 7 | This entailed stopping on the Works premises and calling the fire station at intervals or in the event of a fire , informing them and helping to put it out . |
| 8 | This entailed looking at the flag in the distance and then judging the yardage in between before deciding on the club . |
| 9 | He suggested two dates : the second involved travelling on the day of Edmund 's wedding . |
| 10 | Then is sometimes claimed to be necessarily anaphoric in nature , and to have no gestural deictic usage , but rather complex usages show this is not so — consider , for example , the following said pointing at a 1962 model Chevrolet ( Nunberg , 1978 : 33 ) ) : ( 55 ) I was just a kid then As an initial step towards seeing how time deixis interacts with cultural measurements of time in an absolute or non-deictic way , consider words like today , tomorrow , yesterday . |
| 11 | … for moments later the Mayor , the Parson and the Clerk , along with Jake and his gang , the jailer and the Colonel ( whose Dragoons had been dismissed ) , all came stumbling into the churchyard . |
| 12 | He says he told Hunt , when the latter came barging into the Lotus motor-home in protest , that if Hunt ‘ did n't know I was alongside him , he was like a horse with blinkers on ’ . |
| 13 | Not a bad idea therefore to chose and use three such spanking tenors as these : all were born in the last century ; all made operatic débuts in their early 20s ; all enjoyed singing to the people as well as to operatic audiences . |
| 14 | We all enjoyed working on the item devised by Edith for the reunion and look forward to learning another item this year . |
| 15 | Henry I shored up his doubtful claim by marrying a princess of the English royal line ; what Stephen has lost in warfare , Henry II recaptured owing to a series of successful marriages — those of his parents , which united a claim to all the territory of Henry I with Anjou , and his own , which added to these Aquitaine , that is to say , some title to most of southern France . |
| 16 | At 11am they said the baby was in distress and the six people in the room all began talking about the possibility of a Caesarean . |
| 17 | There was nothing political in this , and , when the Young Liberals branch had closed down , they all started coming to the YCs . |
| 18 | Many went missing during the war . |
| 19 | The FRESS system of the 1970s supported printing from a document database . |
| 20 | We all stood staring at the flower as if it were responsible for Ruthven 's death . |
| 21 | In the past they had been happy to sit and watch the match all afternoon ( even if that meant dying from the cold ! ) . |
| 22 | The emergence of International Relations as a separate field of study was closely related to the approach that first captured thinking about the subject . |
| 23 | Charged with the setting up of a central UK single professional register of nurses , midwives and health visitors , and mindful of its responsibilities for enhancing professional standards , the UKCC first began looking at the issue of mandatory refreshment for nurses and health visitors while still a shadow body in 1982 . |
| 24 | Allison acknowledges that there was a slightly strained period when he first began working with the group , but he found Charman particularly antagonistic . |
| 25 | The changes since he first began working in the service had been radical , to say the least . |
| 26 | She first began working in the winding department and then in the Dye House before her thirteen years ' as a cleaner . |
| 27 | Does the Prime Minister recall that it is now more than 12 months since he first started dithering about the election date , since when 750,000 peole have lost their jobs ? |
| 28 | It were a month after they first started playing with the machine that someone hears one of the tunes they were singing on the wireless set . ’ |
| 29 | It was in Los Angeles in 1914 that some bright car owner first started running up the main street , picking up passengers waiting for trams and charging them a ‘ jitney ’ — 5 cents . |
| 30 | It was Scotsman Alexander Graham Bell who first gave meaning to the expression ‘ If ye want me thungummy , ring me . ’ |