Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animals must now be slaughtered or sent back to Czechoslovakia , which he feels is a completely impractical and rather cynical suggestion . |
| 2 | It was quite coincidental that June , by her search for a new life in California , drew him towards what would be the hub of the rest of his life and it was touch and go whether he stayed or went back to Neptune . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd far rather you waited until it 's light , or went down for Bob . ’ |
| 4 | The definition ‘ Bangladeshi ’ refers to infants whose mothers were born in Bangladesh , and the few mothers who were born or grew up in Britain . |
| 5 | In the afternoons he sometimes helped with games , or stood in for Bill Muggeridge in the gym , if Bill wanted to go home and check up on his wife ( which he quite often did ) . |
| 6 | At Leeds , for example , the grid of streets between the present railway station and the significantly named The Headrow , though now much mutilated by modern development , is still that laid out by Maurice de Paynel in the early thirteenth century . |
| 7 | The tensions and conflicts that arose out of Italy 's struggle for unification were paralleled in the art of the nineteenth-century by the antagonism between Romanticism and Realism . |
| 8 | At first they talked easily about David 's chances of demobilisation , and the kind of law he would practise when he eventually got back to London , and his prospects of fighting a reasonably safe seat at the next General Election , but inevitably that led on to Julia 's plans . |
| 9 | But there was hardly any left , only the long empty expanse from the last container to the door in the super-structure that led down to Nell . |
| 10 | Both the food and the surroundings more than lived up to Luke 's predictions . |
| 11 | She could see them standing on the ridge of hill that rose up behind Tara 's eastern boundaries , sending out the strong magic of the Samhailt to their creatures , so that the woods and the streams and the hillsides thrummed and quivered with the Mindsong . |
| 12 | But in you see travellers and that came up to Stromness and the Kirkwall Hotel . |
| 13 | Well that came up in Anne in Anne Bronte 's book as well did n't he ? |
| 14 | I mean his little friend that came around on Sunday , Mat |
| 15 | Of the reports on problem children that came through to Bloomsbury House , in at least fifty per cent of the cases education , or the lack of it , was a contributory factor . |
| 16 | Boldly , Tommaso went on , light dancing in his pale eyes , ‘ That 's some good that came out of America , at least : the assassin from New Jersey , here 's to him ! ’ |
| 17 | The generation that came out of Egypt and took the part of God 's bride at the wedding at Sinai ( for that is what it was , as the prophet Hosea realized ) do indeed die in the desert , as God said they would . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I played in the unofficial Tests against all the rebel sides that came out to South Africa in the 1980s and that gave me a good idea of what to expect . |
| 19 | I was delighted to get the seven that came back with Charley , and look forward to the couple from Nigel . |
| 20 | The shot that came back off Shilton 's bar in the last minute in Chorzow — a couple of inches lower , and England might have been on their way out of the World Cup — was a symbolic warning . |
| 21 | She , she 'd met him , she 'd come home from abroad in September you know from Korea dancing , that was er that came in on Sunday |
| 22 | That order that came in on Friday . ’ |
| 23 | On both sides of the Atlantic , friends of the smooth-talking Texan still remark on the flood of calls that poured in to Wyatt from the Duchess . |
| 24 | It was Vietnam wrongs and civil rights more than scandals that rained down on Lyndon Johnson ‘ like a Longhorn steer pissing on a rock ’ , as less delicate Texans were wont to put it . |
| 25 | Anchor Ford , which has 18 dealerships and is part of the nationwide Reg Varney group , was among the 61 dealers that signed up with Ford Credit last year . |
| 26 | Even the expressions of support and sympathy that flooded in for Rudolf Hess from all around the world were ruthlessly destroyed by the British censors . |
| 27 | Precisely who first devised the conical form of the sail on the special stunters that followed out of California and Hawaii is not recorded.The camber of the sail was natural anyway , the Radcliffe bridle had established the bridle points , but the new designers ( Tony Cyphert and Don Tabor are often credited ) added the rear cross-spar and this permitted the trihedron bridle which also absorbed the strain on glass fibre spars . |
| 28 | Doyle could understand the feelings that bubbled up in Ned Turner , the grudge , the anger , the frustration . |
| 29 | If students in the 1990s have difficulty in distinguishing all the political parties and coalitions that sprang up in Petrograd after the February Revolution , how could a peasant in 1917 be expected to assimilate them in the place of the Tsar , who at least represented a more easily understood form of political authority ? |
| 30 | Remember the riot that broke out at Leeds towards the end of the 1970-71 season when Ray Tinkler allowed a West Bromwich goal to stand , ruling that Colin Suggett , standing offside when the attack crossed the halfway line , had not been interfering with play . |