Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recognized his limitations , but he made little attempt to develop another technique . |
| 2 | As Raynor ( 1969 , Chapter 2 ) argues , the ‘ middle class ’ was never homogeneous ( in particular it has never been equivalent to Marx 's ‘ bourgeoisie ’ ) , but nonetheless its degree of heterogeneity has been greatly increased over the post-war years , and the shift in the distribution of social labour analysed above has accelerated this process . |
| 3 | The term chemical substance used above refers to matter capable of preparation in sufficient quantity to show distinct chemical behaviour . |
| 4 | In the study by Holly et al 18% of female cases and 14% of controls reported ever having had anal intercourse . |
| 5 | The provisional phylogeny used here seeks to do two things . |
| 6 | The quantum theory created then has proved adequate for all that has so far followed it . |
| 7 | You 'd better start learning that Highway Code . |
| 8 | ‘ But we 've come to the conclusion that since not everybody 's ready for it , we 'd better start packaging some of our most popular strings both ways — individually in sixes , and collectively in one packet — and let players make up their own minds . |
| 9 | ‘ Because if you do , you 'd better start undoing all these goddamned buttons while the fire 's still hot . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd only gone say two weeks without it , but it takes a lot longer than that to actually sort yourself out , anyway … . |
| 11 | We happened to meet up that very night , at The Marquee where we 'd all gone to see Thin Lizzy . |
| 12 | She asked , ‘ What was that ? ’ as if she 'd just failed to catch some remark that Luke had made . |
| 13 | 'cos I 'd just learnt to play this , thought it was ever so clever , and she put her hands on me hands , and she said , no , no , you must n't play that , not while we 're in uniform . |
| 14 | ‘ And when I was born , he 'd just finished reading Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Maclean . |
| 15 | You found sometimes that other rules were n't required because that rule new rule that you 'd finally developed encompassed other classes of events . |
| 16 | Sainsbury 's went to the IPA/IPM Recruitment Industry Awards in London on April 22 to present an award and came away having received two . |
| 17 | ‘ We 'd always planned to have three children , ’ says Kathie . |
| 18 | But he 'd always refused to sell any of his antiques . |
| 19 | You 'd still got to look beautiful and have your corsets on and not look worried while you 're doing all this hacking . |
| 20 | Sometimes Cleo wondered how he 'd ever managed to make such a lucrative living as a poisoner . |
| 21 | The English boy showed the others all the implements and products I had collected for cleaning and disinfecting , telling them I had a mania for cleanliness , and I 'd once decided to wash all his clothes and he 'd had to stay indoors the whole day . |
| 22 | And he said something about he 'd once they 'd once had to work all one day and all one night a near the Regent Centre because er , something had gone wrong with the gas pipes because erm of flooding . |
| 23 | Big Momma woke up having relived that terrifying journey . |
| 24 | In fact the prospect of hosting a dinner party was so fraught with terrors that she 'd probably started to get drunk for it the night before . |
| 25 | Sitting in the train , with a Sunday paper which I 'd automatically bought lying unopened on my knee , I felt a sense of relief at being away from him , at being surrounded by a lot of impersonal uncaring strangers who could see nothing different about me because they 'd never seen me before last night . |
| 26 | The range of speakers called upon seemed consciously designed to stress Christian collaboration within the movement and equally its vitality across generations . |
| 27 | The Zimbabwean President , Mr Robert Mugabe , yesterday reiterated earlier pledges to resettle hundreds of thousands of black families , but allayed white farmers ' fears that their land would be seized with minimal compensation to mark the tenth independence anniversary . |
| 28 | The Zimbabwean President , Mr Robert Mugabe , yesterday reiterated earlier pledges to resettle hundreds of thousands of black families , but allayed white farmers ' fears that their land would be seized with minimal compensation to mark the tenth independence anniversary . |
| 29 | In return , he 'd allegedly offered to keep quiet about illegal payments the club was making to players . |
| 30 | But I was also glad he 'd never asked to see any of mine . |