Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye so of course As I say er i i we were more or less grew up with it . |
| 2 | Orwell 's socialism would reflect the democratic virtues characteristic of the English working class — ‘ the genuinely popular culture … that goes on beneath the surface , unofficially and more or less frowned on by the authorities . ’ |
| 3 | Maybe there was no death , but an accident affecting the personality , someone changed beyond recognition , or just drifted out of touch . |
| 4 | He found that most of them relied for information on their nearest educated contacts , the priests and the Nepmen , or else fell back on rumour , which still loomed large in their news lives . |
| 5 | … I mean a completely different development arising from computer logic but as unimaginable to us now as a Shakespearean character would have been to an oral-epic culture , and a different way of thinking about and rendering … all worldly phenomena , as revolutionary as the scientific spirit that slowly emerged out of the Renaissance and the Gutenberg galaxy . |
| 6 | But nobody today would assume that necessarily went along with be better personal health or wellbeing because we know it does n't . |
| 7 | It still did n't hit me that within hours we would have a baby : I vaguely felt I was immersed in some surreal soap-dream that constantly receded back into itself . |
| 8 | I think this is rightly so , but there is an advantage to knowing to being slightly more explicit about how you 're doing it , and I think that if a lot of the evaluation that already went on in schools became a little bit more explicit and a little bit more open , it would be much easier for people outside the schools to realize the extent at which schools were themselves already engaging in evaluation . |
| 9 | And can the virtue that thus went out of the spiritual reality called England ever be restored ? |
| 10 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 11 | And at that moment , the two people that usually took over from us came round the corner , poked their heads round and said ‘ Oh hello , fancy seeing you here , we just thought we 'd pop round to say goodbye . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ This maritime centre was known to be the cradle of all the cultures and kingdoms that gradually grew down to the southern tip of India and eastwards to Java and other distant lands . ’ |
| 13 | Truth was , I more than once looked back over my shoulder to see if anything was following me . |
| 14 | ‘ There are more fish in the sea than ever came out of it , as my nurse used to say ! ’ |
| 15 | They ran a fleet of slow , chain-driven lorries , a type that quickly went out of fashion in the ‘ twenties . |
| 16 | He has also concussed two linesmen and shot a dog that once ran on to the pitch at Leech . |
| 17 | It is as if , for these youngsters , the space they share on the North Bank is a way of magically retrieving the sense of group solidarity and identification that once went along with living in a traditional working-class neighbourhood . |
| 18 | For all the pay rises in the world , the finest thing that ever came out of the pit was a bath . |
| 19 | Apparently convinced that I was behind the ABC and NBC stories and the media follow-up around the world , they blew my cover in a television broadcast that also went out around the world . |
| 20 | ‘ No , not this time ; it was a bomb that supposedly went off without any warning — lots of gory casualties . ’ |
| 21 | Although now swallowed up in the borough of Rochdale , Middleton people forever affirm their loyalty to Manchester , a city to which they naturally belong . |
| 22 | The creature that now stared down at me looked like a machine , lathe-turned . |
| 23 | It was Rodrigo 's actions that now stood out in the notice of the people : it was El Cid 's name they called in the streets . |
| 24 | Well we went every day on about the mail so it was a passenger service that really started off in nineteen fifty five but we bought maybe in nineteen fifty three or fifty four . |
| 25 | Her body was lifted from the coffin and carried through the dusk across the open fields that then came up to the hospital , to Ferry Beach . |
| 26 | Why could n't she let him in to that private part of herself that sometimes cried out for — what ? |
| 27 | She took the first one and began to skim through it , reading the cold , scientific sentences — sentences that occasionally broke out of the narrow straight-jacket of accepted reporting , unable to conceal the excitement of the men who had written them . |
| 28 | Most of his news-making troubles began in 1986 when he and Madonna embarked on a movie that never lived up to all the hype and publicity that surrounded it , Shanghai Surprise . |
| 29 | Enemies of the Queen went into the Tower through the river gate , and mostly came out without their heads . |
| 30 | Along with the bruises , I was left with the problem of what to do in the Grand Final , and eventually came up with the idea of a prop stool which would collapse at the touch of a button and jump up again on its own . |