Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [indef pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what , of course , was not known to me , nor to Mr Smith , nor to my Rhodesian adviser who obviously knew nothing about Rhodesia , was the relationship between the tribal chiefs and the tribes : the chiefs do what the tribes tell them , not the other way round . |
| 2 | He obviously knew something about Mahoney 's blackmail racket , and figured the girl would be in on it . |
| 3 | After much ‘ mickey-taking ’ , I informed every lady that I only bought one in order to get some change for Sue to go to the toilet ( 25p a time — whatever happened to the expression ‘ spending a penny ’ ) . |
| 4 | So did one from Balfour , written from a sickbed in Carlton Gardens . |
| 5 | She had hitherto had plenty of flirtations . |
| 6 | The ‘ photograph ’ of the burial mound in his mind 's eye , still so sharp and detailed , had convinced him that therein lay something of importance . |
| 7 | Notably , he refused to say whether it would be a socialist or capitalist state , insisting that these words no longer meant anything in Poland . |
| 8 | Well perhaps it need n't where he just had plenty of porridge |
| 9 | She already had plenty of evidence about Romano de Sciorto 's legendary recklessness , did n't she ? |
| 10 | But after she moved in , the house began to grow on her and she already had plenty of ideas for improving what had originally been three farm workers ' cottages . |
| 11 | The colonists soon had plenty of land and a labour force was needed . |
| 12 | Something about the feel of his lips tugging at her nipples began to excite Sally and though she still felt nothing but discomfort from his probing finger she relaxed a little , leaning her head back into the corner provided by the bench seat and the window . |
| 13 | She could see his decision not to bother to try to explain that Brian hardly knew anybody in Northam Town Hall , and that Brian 's salary as Head of Humanities at an Adult Education College hardly rose to paying his own mortgage , let alone to buying a house for his ageing father . |
| 14 | Still with no instructions , by trial and error , I discovered how to do welts , Fisherman 's rib and even racking , but I still knew nothing about tension squares . |
| 15 | I hardly saw anyone from beginning to end . ’ |
| 16 | At the nineteenth , a big open ditch , he stood back and put in an extravagant leap : he still had plenty of gas in the tank . |
| 17 | We still had plenty of time , or so I … ’ |
| 18 | We always had plenty of vegetables , for my father grew them in the garden , and during the Second World War , had an allotment too . |
| 19 | Because of this arrangement , while I was in the Waaf I always had plenty of spending money , but there were n't a whole lot of things to spend it on . |
| 20 | He always had plenty of time for us . |
| 21 | ‘ You once said something about Elise 's frame of mind , and I did n't quite see what you were implying . |
| 22 | Oh yes , and I also found plenty of time to play football and cricket . |
| 23 | ‘ Decoupage ’ giftware , a Victorian-inspired design embodying the rich heritage of Mason 's , also received lots of attention from buyers as has a new tableware pattern , ‘ Spring Blossom ’ . |
| 24 | We also collected lots of price lists and catalogues . |
| 25 | Erm we also offered everything from sort of secretarial help and er use of photocopiers and duplicators , to the tenants ' group , through to I guess being able to perhaps suggest to them who in the council it might be that they needed to speak to , or perhaps tactically how to go about achieving their particular aims . |
| 26 | But she also saw something in Shelley 's face , and she went on more quietly , ‘ OK , OK , tell me when you want to — if you want to . |
| 27 | The set operators — that is the navigator or observer who would operate the HS set — also had plenty of preparation , and the captain would be a sort of overseer who went round each section . |
| 28 | They made realistic models of different types of cuckoo eggs ( realistic enough to fool a leading British ornithologist who unwittingly recorded one as part of a clutch he discovered ) and placed them in the nests of reed warblers to examine the response of the hosts . |
| 29 | Since 1980 , the protection of the law against the closed shop had been progressively extended so that it now covered everyone in employment . |
| 30 | Never before had anyone in Europe been given so many transplants : |