Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comfortable and friendly , it is a broader , homelier version of the ‘ Queen Anne ’ style , which had been conceived over thirty years earlier by the great Richard Norman Shaw , and which eventually became so settled and familiar in suburban streets throughout England . |
| 2 | The only note of criticism which can be sounded in relation to the admirable job of careful conversion which created much needed and characterful dwellings within the shell of a disused church at St James Court emerges from the preservation-conscious atmosphere of the present day . |
| 3 | Such a material might be produced by rolling or by the type of lateral crystallization found with the " shish-kebab " structure formed in stirred polymer solutions , Walpole ( 1969 ) gives formulae for the elastic constants of arrays of disc-like inclusions while the author ( 1976 ) has calculated the longitudinal elastic properties of the two-dimensional " lamellar stack " model ( Figure 4.7 ) , which has applications to the morphologies found in drawn and rolled polymers as well as to laminates made of two polymers co-extruded into multilayer sheets . |
| 4 | The overall picture of output controls fitted the findings of the early studies which stressed the importance of ‘ external factors ’ but the incident recounted above suggested that this was not the whole story . |
| 5 | She glared at Hank as he stood by the front door ready to open it for the paper 's representatives , and tried not to scream while these gentlemen put on their boots again . |
| 6 | As time went on she settled into a bust , challenging job which she found both demanding and stressful . |
| 7 | In the following example ( 5 ) , the speaker does not directly assert that one property ( being brave ) follows from another property ( being an Englishman ) , but the form of expression used conventionally implicates that such a relation does hold . |
| 8 | The Allocations Office maintains a register of approved board lodgings and self-catering bedsits , all of which are inspected before inclusion in the register and visited subsequently to ensure that correct standards are being maintained . |
| 9 | He was 17 years old when he suddenly became generally exhausted and tired of studying . |
| 10 | In particular , there was a striking morphological appearance in five infected livers in which the hepatocytes became progressively enlarged and distorted as they accumulated huge amounts of hepatitis B surface and core antigens ( HBsAg , HBcAg ) . |
| 11 | This caused much grumbling and many heads were knocked together just to remind everybody who was boss . |
| 12 | Yeah , cos we 've got to do your inhaler as well and we 'd better wipe that all that muck off your face , all that tomato sauce |
| 13 | Woil looked around him and seemed suddenly confused and unsure of himself . |
| 14 | I came in knowing that that was going to happen , so erm yo I think also I had the the freedom that I had chosen to live there , and I think that made erm the difference . |
| 15 | Prior to the mid 1960s , pollution issues received only limited and sporadic attention from a public whose interest was largely restricted to rather isolated localized pollution issues and the occasional air pollution episode . |
| 16 | She made coq au vin on his birthday , painstakingly following a recipe ( a thing she 'd not done since basic cookery lessons at school ) and he was so pleased he bought her a Cordon Bleu cookbook . |
| 17 | The bedroom seemed already known and safe . |
| 18 | They attended some of the London Stop The Clause meetings in order to gain information and strengthen communication — unfortunately , they often came away frustrated and unsuccessful because of internal difficulties within the London campaign . |
| 19 | He 'd already registered as available for action , back home in Arkansas , but after a year in England , he wrote a letter to his local officer training corps explaining that he did n't want to fight after all . |
| 20 | I 'd always imagined that one day I 'd be able to turn to the guy beside me at the Giants Stadium and say ‘ That 's my kid playing down there ’ . |
| 21 | He 'd always assumed that this was a piece of official terminology until one day he 'd asked what it meant , and found out that it stood for Another Fucking Drunk . |
| 22 | Pushing aside the imposed conventions , the restraints and inhibitions she 'd always accepted as right and proper , necessary even , she pressed herself against him . |
| 23 | But sometimes he seemed unnaturally flushed and lively — and it was not with drink . |
| 24 | But Mount Kenya is over 17,000ft ( 5100m ) and we 'd also learnt that many walkers and climbers fail to reach the top simply because of altitude sickness . |
| 25 | THAT night Maggie had a dream she had not had for over two years and woke up sweating and anxious , her own cries still ringing in her mind . |
| 26 | We enjoyed their music and shared their worship and we came back changed and enriched and I commend number twenty seven to everyone 's attention . |
| 27 | Four hours later we came out to find that three inches of rain had fallen , creeks had burst their banks , cars had been swept away , and people were injured and homeless . |
| 28 | Nevertheless it all sounded pretty convincing , so much so that you came out wondering whether that persistent zit on your face was n't the result of bad diet , but actually something implanted by alien beings , determined for their own mysterious purposes to make you suffer the social embarrassment of a bad complexion . |
| 29 | Fresh doubts were raised here : the mare was bathed in sweat and seemed uncharacteristically agitated and disinclined for the job in hand . |
| 30 | He 's keeping himself so busy , he 'd quite forgotten that this weekend is the 6th anniversary of the accident . |