Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few minutes later Branco sent a typically fiendish Brazilian free-kick dipping and swerving past the wall and Van Breukelen , who rarely encountered anything like this in his Nottingham Forest days , punched the ball clear without knowing much about it . |
| 2 | Public and private sector schemes together covered one in eight workers in 1936 , and one in three by 1956 . |
| 3 | I only knew something of all this because the girl 's mother kept in touch with me occasionally through innocent looking postcards and just the one phone call put through to our telephone me when her husband died in 1986 . |
| 4 | This Fraxillian city apparently had none of those things , except objects that by a stretch definition could have been called buildings . |
| 5 | and it only had one over all the speaker |
| 6 | I just chucked everything in that I had , did it , in the box and we were out before seven . |
| 7 | During a mad session I finally made one after two weeks of trying and came down and a guy called Matt said ‘ Yeah you did it at last ’ . |
| 8 | I just bought one for that twenty erm that twenty four inch I 've bought , he was |
| 9 | We just had nothing in common and I could n't communicate with his dull business friends . |
| 10 | cos I just picked everything up that was in there , thinking it was mine , and . |
| 11 | A Alan at erm pub used to like , he always got summat with black bean sauce . |
| 12 | She quickly dropped one into each saucer before standing back and looking at Beth with a forlorn expression . |
| 13 | There was a Puritan austerity about him that made one doubt whether he ever enjoyed anything at all . |
| 14 | Difficult to get the old fire up for the Greater Glory of flag , Empire and Prime Minister Ian Paisley , but hearth , home and humping still meant something in this godrotten hellhole khazipit of a world . |
| 15 | Most of them broke when I peeled the real leaf off the chocolate which I 'd painted on — not quite up to Mum 's standards of patience and perfection , but who ever saw lots of perfect leaves ( not on a tree ) anyway . |
| 16 | I do n't think he ever remembered anything from one week to the next , but he smoked his pipe comfortably , looking as intelligent as he could . |
| 17 | Music played softly in the background as they stood on either side of the hearth , smiling uncertainly at one another like former lovers reunited after a long absence and wondering whether they still had anything in common . |
| 18 | How funny , he never ever said anything like that to us . |
| 19 | Maggie was numb with misery herself and Felipe hardly said anything at all . |
| 20 | Arthur Squibb the elder , his father 's first cousin , was a teller , and his elder brother Lawrence also became one in 1640 , in which year he himself acquired a reversion to a tellership . |
| 21 | The survey also showed one in five wanted former ICI boss Sir John Harvey-Jones as Premier instead of John Major . |
| 22 | Well we were at a venture park on er Sunday and I reckon I probably did something on one of the rides without realizing it . |
| 23 | So I read it and I gave a similar look back and I think I probably said something like that did n't happen or something along those lines , that 's hard to believe that had happened and passed it back to him and then that was it , we did not discuss it at the time … |
| 24 | When planning the smaller details , Debbie Weston also had lots of useful suggestions . |
| 25 | Holding up the wall near the bar , Peter Materna , an engineer in Princeton 's fusion project , was wearing his badge — which also said something about white-water rafting . |
| 26 | You probably had one like that , I 've got about twenty in the c drawer at home . |
| 27 | ‘ I really blew everything after Footloose , ’ he said . |
| 28 | We did n't mix — the Forces and the students — as we really had nothing in common , but it was a reassurance to see them going about their daily business , as an indication that one day we would all be able to revert to peacetime pursuits . |
| 29 | The letters themselves began with a private approach to Cecil by William Kirkcaldy of Grange ; then came one from five Scottish Protestants , Argyll , lord James and others , written on 19 July , and remarkable for its spelling , its rhetorical power , and its refusal to state positively what was wanted . |
| 30 | In response to the pills question , one pupil found that 50 pills weighed 1 g and then added lots of 50 pills until 250 was reached . |