Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a thousand times better that England should be a Prussian colony . |
| 2 | Announcement of the England team , originally scheduled for 10.00am , had been delayed by two hours so that Gooch could give Daffy the bad news . |
| 3 | The announcement of the England 12 for Lord 's was delayed by two hours so that Gooch could give Daffy the bad news . |
| 4 | The anger was triggered by a clash between photographers and bodyguards outside a toy store that had been cleared of shoppers so that Jackson could go on a shopping spree . |
| 5 | The European Commission is having a hard enough job getting all its members to clear out the same few channels so that Europe can have a paging system which could be used in any of its countries . |
| 6 | He paused staring at her with half-closed eyes so that Emily could not read his expression . |
| 7 | But remember — raid your savings now and Santa wo n't pick up the bill . |
| 8 | But in this programme you 'll appreciate this planned months , its planned , when did I first contact you ? , oh February was n't it , right , so we thought we 'd have pictures here and Sue would be talking in front of the pictures . |
| 9 | He even put his hands in Oliver 's pockets so that Oliver would not have to empty them himself when he went to bed . |
| 10 | Then Kurt has to shell out a considerable amount of money , maybe $25,000 , for the first class plane seats so that Courtney can fly home lying down and a specially appointed ambulance to pick her up at LA airport . |
| 11 | He had stuck labels in various places so that Willie would associate an object with a word , until after a time Willie labelled them himself . |
| 12 | That should change with the decision reached two weeks ago that Sheffield will have to pay for the host broadcasting operation of television . |
| 13 | ‘ I believe he said weeks ago that Hitler would be in Buckingham Palace and he 'd be in Knowsly Hall . |
| 14 | It was four years ago and Ingrid could n't cope with Adele . |
| 15 | I put a suitcase on the bed and began to throw clothes into it , half my dresses so that Richard would n't notice when he hung his trousers up in the wardrobe , but all my underwear , since he would not look in my drawer . |
| 16 | ( In the event , at the end of 1991 prices were weak , with Algeria 's Nordine Ait Laoussine on Christmas Eve predicting worse developments still unless OPEC could see its way to reducing output . ) |
| 17 | This set Jean Powers off on a torrent of exclamations and denials so that Helen could not have got a word in had she wished to ; she stood and looked at Giles Carnaby and tried to be calm . |
| 18 | In a match made in heaven , if not the sponsors ' dreams , Faldo will play Ballesteros in the semi-finals today and Rafferty will meet Ian Woosnam . |
| 19 | Nora tried her best to get round the wartime restrictions so that Constance could be well dressed . |
| 20 | This week she spent looking after Paddock Sportsline and their other emergent horses so that Linda could earn money working as a stable girl in Ted Edgar 's stables . |
| 21 | About 10,000 people are leaving each month in this way , and the government is granting exit visas faster than America can admit them . |
| 22 | In America satellite technology , video monitors and digital data links relay sound and images from the sea-bed to museum visitors thousands of miles away and Britain may soon benefit from this new type of underwater museum . |