Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [verb] [det] " 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 | You 'd better start learning that Highway Code . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Because if you do , you 'd better start undoing all these goddamned buttons while the fire 's still hot . ’ |
| 6 | She asked , ‘ What was that ? ’ as if she 'd just failed to catch some remark that Luke had made . |
| 7 | '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 . |
| 8 | But he 'd always refused to sell any of his antiques . |
| 9 | Sometimes Cleo wondered how he 'd ever managed to make such a lucrative living as a poisoner . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Big Momma woke up having relived that terrifying journey . |
| 13 | But I was also glad he 'd never asked to see any of mine . |
| 14 | As the right hon. Gentleman should have noticed , a few days ago my right hon. Friend the Minister for Social Security and Disabled People announced further steps to help all those in receipt of income support who have mortgages . |
| 15 | Bettencourt slipped a beautiful reverse pass to Feaster who raced in to slam dunk another two spectacular points midway through the second half . |
| 16 | Most of the 400,000 people who turned out to watch saw little more than a few sparks over the Scheldt . |
| 17 | Eventually , of course , the dug-outs return with the news that prices and demand had increased on other islands also and that what had erroneously been considered to be a series of relative price and demand shifts turned out to have affected all islands equally . |
| 18 | I lost the race and finished up trying to row half a dinghy with the crew cheering in the distance . |
| 19 | Again you used to drop it and whoever was what we called on had to fetch this peg back again , put it onto there , and then come and find us again . |
| 20 | shur shur shur shur shur shur shur , and this went on for a week an little teacher , Miss , she called out stop doing that ! |
| 21 | Hence the neurologists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , having recognised that various different patterns of language disorder existed , went on to attempt to define these as syndromes — for example , to define several different categories of aphasia , each category being defined as a list of the symptoms that are seen in patients belonging to that category . |
| 22 | We all went home having had little but fruit , cheese and Texas-size shrimps for three days , but it was delicious , convenient and appealing , and there was plenty of it . |
| 23 | Ramsay went off to try to recruit more men in his part of Lothian . |
| 24 | Allen went carefully to work testing each possible place . |
| 25 | He looked around hoping to find any sign of the Bookman but , as he thought , there was nothing . |
| 26 | Showing my ignorance , and then apparently my grandfather 's so into him , that he went round trying to find this book of his , his work , |
| 27 | Despite Dustin 's worries over the script-'I learned not to try to build more of a character than the text can support' — his performance is one of threads and patches , full of actorish tics and attempts at pathos . |
| 28 | She did not want to watch any more , but something made her stay , silent at the window . |
| 29 | Coun Philip Stamford Bewlay ( Con ) said he did not want to see another pub in the town centre but officers said that was not an issue the planning committee is entitled to discuss . |
| 30 | erm One of our buyers , Spain , er was not in favour of that solution because they were not a member of the tornado team and they did not want to see some kind of old boys club er running this project which was very important to them . |