Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some man at the college had arranged it for her … she more or less admitted she 'd worked on him . ’ |
| 2 | Yeah , a and in fact in the programme I th the one that Barbara was in , I can remember the er , as it happens , I , I was out er when that programme came on and I taped it so I s I , I 've still got that particular programme , and the lady at the end er on one of her questions she 'd obviously forgotten what she was going to say er and sort of made something up and er she turned to er as they were just panning away from her , she turned to her next door neighbour and more or less said I forgot what I was going to say , you know . |
| 3 | Because at the time the big boxing promoters and the New York State Athletic Commission , which had links with the Mafia , more or less decided who fought whom . |
| 4 | The stuff was either rubbish , or twee , or so boring it made you want to puke . |
| 5 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 6 | She was having to repeat herself , and even then Lucy was picking up the wrong costume or completely mistaking what had been said . |
| 7 | Then that little fawn you shot last night wo n't feel lonely in the museum . " |
| 8 | The one , that , even while giving her a verbal warning about her work , he had handed her a very important file to work on — albeit only to ensure she had little time for anything else — must mean that he had received good reports on her ability . |
| 9 | After they had gone a complete silence that only reflected itself settled down like lead and was broken only by the sound of Moran removing his boots to go to bed early . |
| 10 | ‘ Though of course there was also that long leave he had towards the end of the war . ’ |
| 11 | Although greatly outnumbered they engaged the Scottish forces at Dupplin Moor south of Perth on 11 August 1332 and routed them . |
| 12 | The IBA 's increasing concern for programme standards and balance , plus pressure from the smaller companies that rightly felt they had more and more production potential to offer , added to the complications . |
| 13 | Talk about jumping the gun — the machines are n't even announced for another three weeks , but Hopkinton , Massachusetts-based Clearpoint Research Corp reckons that there are potential users out there that already realise they ordered too little memory for the things and want to be prepared by having add-on memory ready and waiting on site . |
| 14 | Clinton 's explanation for this brazen reversal of his campaign promises — that once elected he found the figures to be worse than he had thought — may be glibness on a heroic scale , yet the increases have the virtue of consistency with the rest of the package . |
| 15 | Although fully furnished it had an air of emptiness and desolation . |
| 16 | Fortunately , there was a small cell of opinion within the Air Ministry that passionately believed they knew the reason for the failure and , more importantly , felt that they also knew the answer . |
| 17 | Johnson wrote to Mrs Thrale that however ruined he found it , the Abbey 's ‘ fabrick was once of great extent , and stupendous magnificence ’ . |
| 18 | Before independence , Zimbabwe competed for and successfully gathered what had been Zambia 's crown of regional leadership against South AFrica . |
| 19 | He was aware of making an effort to pass this question off as casually as possible and thereby knew he had failed . |
| 20 | The Judicature Acts of 1873–75 created a single Supreme Court of Judicature , comprising courts of both law and equity and thereby fusing what had previously been two separate systems . |
| 21 | Every Member I interviewed believed that television had increased public interest in Parliament and most thought it had improved public understanding of how the Commons works , It is even more important , however , that the House should be televised so that the public can follow the actual matters being debated in Parliament . |
| 22 | The child , possessed by wonder and nameless hauntings , tried to join together the heavings and creakings and groans and gasps and little cries he had heard as he lay on the floor , his mother 's disturbed concentration now , his father 's stillness as if felled , and the sticky warmth in which he lay between them , something more than the sweat that was there before , a substance he divined as elemental , mysterious , newly decanted , that touched his flesh and his senses with profound , unattainable meaning . |
| 23 | When she looked at him closely , Jill felt sorry for him and rather wished she had n't spoken so pointedly . |
| 24 | Hyacinth felt excluded from it all , and rather wished she had waited for Carole Swan , or for Angela Cartwright , the delegation 's leader . |
| 25 | Call The Helpline ( 0442 69123/4/5 ) ’ and rather wishes they had telephones aboard these rumbling cars . |
| 26 | She needed to keep up her continuity of male companionship , and humbly thought she had nothing to offer but sex . ) |
| 27 | I looked down and suddenly realised I had forgotten to bring my own umbrella to work that morning . |
| 28 | Many of the latecomers , especially as the afternoon wore on , were furious to find the doors locked , not having heard of the noon closure and so thinking they had all day . |
| 29 | And so saying he went into the tiny village police station with its distinctive blue lamp and the lettering chiselled into the stone above the doorway which said ‘ King 's Magnum Parva Police Station ’ . |
| 30 | And so saying he threw a stick into the water . |