Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secret news from Dunegal of Nithsdale , using a name that only Thorfinn would recognise , that Thorfinn did not talk of at all , at least before Groa . |
| 2 | Erm David Allenby did n't talk like that . |
| 3 | According to senior Government sources , relations with the French are now so bad Mr Major and Mr Mitterrand do not talk to each other . |
| 4 | As for the Nehru , England 's first match is on 15 October , while India and Pakistan do not get under way until the 22nd . |
| 5 | Bernice did n't feel like writing any more in her diary . |
| 6 | Menna was never well in his head or heart — Tawaret did not smile on his birth , and the torture he experienced at his brother 's hands pushed him forever into a lonely land inside himself … ’ |
| 7 | Their problems intensified when wing ace Martin Offiah did n't appear for the second half after picking up a leg injury . |
| 8 | Most of all , Mahoney did n't look like the sort of man who would work in an art gallery . |
| 9 | Freud did n't go to one extreme or the other , he did n't go to the Hobbes extreme and say there is no good in us you know , we 're just anti-social egoists , although he did know that was true of the id . |
| 10 | Erm Freud 's hypothesis is that this religion left Egypt because of the persecution , Moses was one of Akhenaten 's followers who went out into the desert , erm here as I 'll explain in the lectures er some of my own research opens up a new angle on this that Freud did n't know about and why they went out into the desert , why they picked up these er Hebrew erm er immigrants who were living on the fringes of the Egyptian Empire . |
| 11 | Gorbachev did not respond until Feb. 5 , when he issued a decree declaring that Lithuania 's referendum was juridically invalid , and ordering elected Lithuanian bodies to ensure the holding of the all-union referendum . |
| 12 | Dana did not reappear for a few days , and during that time I felt I was going mad . |
| 13 | Dana did n't come to the showroom either ; she had appeared for a fitting and for a rehearsal , as she had promised , neither of which had been an outstanding success . |
| 14 | But his new picture of Marie did not take into account those disturbing scenes in her kitchen , or in the pill-box tunnels when her aggressive , violent behaviour had scared him half to death . |
| 15 | Picasso did not take to Beatrice , but her column two weeks later benefited : ‘ By the way ’ , she wrote , ‘ M. Picasso is painting a portrait of M. Max Jacob in a style , the mere rumour of which is causing all the little men to begin to say that , of course , Cubism was all very well in its way , but was never more than an experiment . |
| 16 | Lucy did not refer to that evening or to the story . |
| 17 | Lucy did n't think of herself as deep . |
| 18 | Lucy did n't look at him . |
| 19 | Corbett did not go through Edinburgh but took the same route as he had earlier followed , skirting the city , plodding his way through marsh and bog till he reached the clean , white sanctity of the Abbey . |
| 20 | Bella did n't want to be called guilty ; her instinct was always for ambiguity . |
| 21 | He and Bella did n't seem to be having very much fun without him . |
| 22 | Apparently Angell and Pownall did not approve of Brodrick 's novel lighting arrangements and recommended that the scheme be rejected . |
| 23 | The interesting thing is that while Applegarth did not return to his trade , or to the union movement , he retained his political radicalism to the end of his days : for another fifty years . |
| 24 | Nevil did not look at me , even though his eyes were pointed roughly in my direction . |
| 25 | The future was still uncertain enough for Morley to declare ‘ U2 do n't want to be cultish . |
| 26 | U2 do n't want to be cultish . |
| 27 | Edward did not go to school with other children . |
| 28 | Edward did not mind at all . |
| 29 | It was peaceful with the plop-of the gas fire and the dark sky outside through the window , for like many old people Doris did not draw her curtains till late and Linda did not feel like going back to the bustle of tea-time , but she could n't keep them waiting for their tea . |
| 30 | Barrymore did not know in which of them the mysterious man was living . |