Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [conj] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It read as if having to play auntie instead of Schumann first gave her the idea of coming over — Here 's our hunter home from the hill . ’ |
| 2 | The ship leaped and juddered as if trying to turn to inside out . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought you should be busy , ’ she muttered as if trying to justify herself . |
| 4 | As the days passed Creggan got used to Slorne 's silence and grew to like it and he would perch at his stance and think about the land in the South where the two of them came from and try to imagine what it was like . |
| 5 | The further away from a time-piece you were , the more it not only seemed to but did drag . |
| 6 | Moreover , system investments have created economies of scale where few existed before and have begun to make it more possible to derive benefit from global ‘ scope ’ . |
| 7 | But er when I as soon as I was fourteen I walked to and started working next day . |
| 8 | If you 've been gossiping about someone , go to those you gossiped to and try to restore the person 's reputation . |
| 9 | The reunification of Russia coincided with and helped to sustain a century of relative prosperity which lasted into the 1560s . |
| 10 | After this calamity , several new groups appeared , of which the most important were the clymeniid ammonoids , quite different from anything that went before and destined to play a major role in the world of stratigraphical palaeontology . |
| 11 | Ranulf hesitated as if intending to pick it up . |
| 12 | In the morning , I dressed as if to go shopping , leaving my case and the new clothes in the wardrobe , the perfume on the dresser . ’ |
| 13 | It was , therefore , this aspect that Bukharin dealt with when coming to criticise Preobrazhensky 's book . |
| 14 | As the only Farangs there , we were drawn by friendly hands to the best viewing spot , and beamed at and invited to climb the ladder . |
| 15 | He paused as if to draw breathe , and bawled : " What 's the matter with your eye ? " |
| 16 | On an afterthought , she said ‘ Thank you very much , children , ’ and then paused as if trying to come to a decision . |
| 17 | Sometimes in the night he cried out in a hoarse voice and moaned as if struggling to escape the grip of a bad dream . |
| 18 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
| 19 | An even bigger shock was in store when the organisers set to and began breaking out a peg for everyone . |
| 20 | She immediately set to and tried to establish some order . |