Example sentences of "[adv] [indef pn] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At six o'clock everyone assembled for dinner and Mr Priddy signalled that the first course could be taken in , a heavy tureen of mock turtle soup which was to be served from a side table . |
| 2 | The Santa Cruz Operation was taking a bullish attitude towards the launch of Destiny last week , pointing out that it was a technology , not a product announcement , and saying that it would be a long time before the package would support the large range of peripherals in the SCO catalogue : SCO also claimed to offer pretty much everything offered by Destiny , including DOS/Windows emulation and Motif — which SCO ships , not just supports — claiming its distribution network was mature and widespread , and said it was more interested in the networked and multi-user system market than the PC and Mac replacement that USL is interested in . |
| 3 | So everybody went to sleep ? |
| 4 | This identity was usually something fashioned at school , or in college . |
| 5 | But once one got into Teacher Training College one paid no attention to the course . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's because he 's so strong , there is always something left in reserve no matter how tired he looks . ’ |
| 7 | It 's got a steel bolt with two steel rollers in there , so that if , even somebody tried to hacksaw their way through that it will just slide along as soon as . |
| 8 | Then nothing happened worth reporting . |
| 9 | Then something clicked into place in his mind . |
| 10 | The audience nodded , and Liz from the doorway nodded , for she had to admit that for the moment at least everything looked under control : pretty parsley-sprigged snacks awaited distribution , bottles of wine stood in attentive ranks , glasses were lined up , wiped and polished , piles of white napkins lay neatly folded in readiness . |
| 11 | The ideal of ‘ each woman in her own house ’ is certainly one fostered by advertising , and thus it may be , in part , a stereotyped response to the boredom of housework . |