Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , being unused , they progressively deteriorated and caved in and the entrances filled in or became overgrown with vegetation . |
| 2 | Spelt out slightly more fully ( and at the risk of oversimplification ) , this means that a decision is open to review where it has been arrived at as a result of a mistaken view of the law , or where the decision is one that could not reasonably have been arrived at , in the sense that the person deciding must have taken into account irrelevant considerations , or failed to take into account relevant ones , or where he has failed to observe the dictates of natural justice which require him to give the parties a hearing before arriving at his decision . |
| 3 | Cells came together ( or failed to separate after cell division ) to form many-celled bodies . |
| 4 | Published diaries which record a day-to-day chronology of events may not be the most coherent of records , but they do not suffer from being over-edited , tidied up or altered to fit into hindsight . |
| 5 | Should the enemy charge the hand gunners will flee , and the attackers are either drawn onto the halberdiers or left struggling in front of the main body of the regiment ready to be charged next turn . |
| 6 | The mean rate of recurrent or continued bleeding in control groups was 37% . |
| 7 | But again there was no reply , and she decided that Bertha was either out in the garden or had gone to town . |
| 8 | I should mention that if for any reason we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 9 | I should mention that if , for any reason , we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 10 | I should mention that if , for any reason , we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 11 | It went against all biological sense to suggest that the receptors and the elaborate physiological adaptations which they set in motion had no purpose , or had evolved in response to taking opium . |
| 12 | The Act creates several offences , all of which are committed by organisation , participation or incitement in a controlled or banned procession , or controlled meeting in breach of the conditions imposed . |
| 13 | We know that if we started to challenge everything we should end up like the centipede that became paralysed through analysis of the movement of its many legs . |
| 14 | The man behind Shoom — a club that is now so legendary that if all the people who claim to have been there in its formative months really had attended , it would have been held in Wembley Stadium not in a sweaty south-east London basement — he resolutely refused to cash in on the boom that became known as acid . |
| 15 | We safeguarded ourselves by leaving one man behind to clear the rabbits that became entangled in front of the main wood . |
| 16 | A government that sought to remain in office after losing a vote of confidence in the House of Commons would find its position politically intenable : it would lack the political authority to govern . |
| 17 | The decade began with congress passing various bills that sought to cut off funding for the Vietnam War and in 1973 legislators moved on to pass the War Powers Act over president Nixon 's veto . |
| 18 | He was good at them , linking all the stories together with more gum and spit , reintroducing the characters with , ‘ You know that bad bad man who was caught naked in the bathing hut ? ’ , as in a wild soap opera , until he knew that at the end of her day spent sucking on dusty brain juice , her maddening mouth would inevitably say , ‘ Hey , Changez , husband or whatever you are , do n't you know any more about that politician geezer that got thrown into jail ? ’ |
| 19 | Feeling unutterably depressed , she wandered round the empty cottage that seemed to echo with loneliness . |
| 20 | There was a silence that seemed to last to eternity , then her pride brought her to her feet and filled her cheeks with hot , angry colour . |
| 21 | They approached what appeared to be a massive green wall , where the sun highlighted tall trunks and sent blue shadows among the tree-tops that seemed to stretch into infinity . |
| 22 | The air felt storm-charged and Jessamy 's nerve-ends responded with a prickling that seemed to warn of danger ahead . |
| 23 | In the car he had seen himself in words on a page , a helpless being pinioned by letters , manipulated by a creative intelligence that seemed set upon punishment and pain rather than any grace or redemption . |
| 24 | Photographs , ornaments jammed anyhow on to whatever might accommodate them ; furniture , chairs and tallboys that seemed to fight for space . |
| 25 | It can be done here 's the goal that United scored against Villa two weeks ago … what Brian Horton would give for two more like this tonight |
| 26 | It was a stray that came to beg for food in the garden of a town house . |
| 27 | From then on everything that happened seemed to jar . |
| 28 | As well as vetting projects , the MOI ran an Ideas Committee to notify filmmakers of issues that needed developing into film narratives . |
| 29 | Knock-out : The last minute goal that kept United from defeat . |
| 30 | He got off the Mini , he that went flying up street , she came out of the next door . |