Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keller and Bever ( 1980 ) asked right handed subjects to categorise musical intervals presented monaurally and obtained a significant REA in non-musicians for this task and a non-significant left ear advantage among musicians . |
| 2 | The election was required by law , and if anyone thought it odd that there should be such trouble over elections to a chamber that now met only to ratify decisions taken elsewhere , then they kept the notion to themselves . |
| 3 | A number of other allegations made by Higgins against Kruger were either not proceeded with or found not to constitute conduct bringing the game into disrepute . |
| 4 | Some cuts involved not filling posts left vacant by teachers discouraged by the rock-bottom pay and difficult conditions . |
| 5 | The methods used to achieve these aims involved both analysing data collected in the earlier projects ( 1985-87 ) , and investigations during the current project ( 1988 ) . |
| 6 | I said I do n't know how you dare sit there and say you have n't paid that Alice , she 's paid a fiver I says I 'd be ashamed , I said I wish mine was only that , so she phoned up to make arrangements to pay it a pound a week thirty two pound , that 's all hers is Wendy , for the year |
| 7 | Wijeratne tried unsuccessfully to persuade Gujral to advance the deadline to Feb. 4 , Sri Lanka 's national day . |
| 8 | A distraught Leonie tried unsuccessfully to contact Hugo to warn him and the first he knew of the débâcle was when he was summoned to Nicholson 's cramped stale-tobacco smelling office . |
| 9 | In fast , we found well differentiated carcinomas to contain significantly less urokinase type plasminogen activator antigen compared with poorly differentiated carcinomas ( Table II ) . |
| 10 | He described how using films covered with tiny grooves called riblets could save the world 's airlines billions . |
| 11 | Four huts of palm thatch laid over jointed poles had been constructed , and cooking and storage tents were pitched nearby . |
| 12 | The problem which Jane and Nigel experienced over finding time to meet their tutors are fundamental to such projects . |
| 13 | ‘ Frank , you 'd better tell Barclay to have one of his slabs ready . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Then you 'd better hope Adolf wins the war , ’ Devlin said . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'd better help Betty load the stuff in the car . ’ |
| 16 | I 'd better phone Katie had n't I ? |
| 17 | Perhaps you 'd better get Fiddy to say some prayers for me . |
| 18 | Oh I think you 'd better let mummy do that er |
| 19 | He 'd better warn Matron to keep a special watch on the Maternity people . |
| 20 | The irritating clarity which her dissolving mind afforded long gone events brought back memories of an archaeological expedition to classify similar megaliths on Sensuron . |
| 21 | Sponsored by Denny 's , who feature Rolf in their advertising , over 200 children from all over Northern Ireland came along to help Rolf paint a mural , join in a cartoon class and have a short guided tour of the zoo . |
| 22 | Xanthe spread out the soft folds of her skirt and looked at them as Miranda quickly splashed water into her armpits , round her neck , on her face , muttering , ‘ I wish I 'd just had time to wash my hair . ’ |
| 23 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |
| 24 | The realization that she was working for Hauser was opening new horizons for her , but she 'd not had time to work out how she could exploit the knowledge . |
| 25 | I 'd been doing press and touring and all that lot for two years without a break , I 'd not had time to change or take anything in . ’ |
| 26 | In the old days she 'd not had time to think about anything except how to keep out of trouble . |
| 27 | We were counting on her coming with us today but she 'd already made plans to meet some friends in Times Square . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Till then , you 'd best keep y'mouth shut an ’ think o' how y'gonna answer charges o' drugs runnin' , kidnappin' , unlawful imprisonment an' aggravated assault … maybe even murder ! ’ |
| 29 | I 'd always guessed Nicola had a rich fantasy life but I 'd never guessed it was quite that rich , ’ she snorted derisively . |
| 30 | AN 82-year-old man who drove off to visit friends got lost for 13 hours — and finished up just 22 miles from home . |