Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know George and Steven got on well and George would have been delighted to have seen this happy day . |
| 2 | KEVIN KEEGAN 'S Geordie dream lived on yesterday as Newcastle won their ninth successive match and opened up a five-point lead at the top of the First Division . |
| 3 | Joseph Hanway in 1766 observed that the " mass of people " lived on less than £5 a year , and considered that when provision prices were " moderate " , husbandmen supported a family of three or four children on 1s to 1s 6d ( 5-7½p ) a day . |
| 4 | Despite the spread of private pensions , 75 per cent of pensioners lived on less than £3,500 a year . |
| 5 | Cranston gazed quizzically back and Athelstan grinned . |
| 6 | Leonora , afraid he 'd been about to order her to bed , assented so rapturously that Penry eyed her in amusement as he crossed to the stairs . |
| 7 | And he says : ‘ I got in only because Ian was hurt , but I have to put sentiment aside and think of Kevin Campbell . ’ |
| 8 | No problem arose so far as NHS general practitioners were concerned , except a very powerful dispute about the level of the compensation of junior doctors ; but with the consultants it was another story . |
| 9 | Effie , spared the final agonising pangs of the actual moments of birth , recovered so slowly that McAllister feared that she had overdone the chloroform . |
| 10 | They moved on again and Timothy Gedge went with them , swinging his carrier-bag . |
| 11 | Such changes occurred most commonly when women were initially booked to deliver at general practitioner hospitals : 40% of them were delivered at a consultant unit . |
| 12 | It is hardly surprising that real wages rose less rapidly than productivity and hence that profitability and competitiveness improved . |
| 13 | The fingers moved so fast that Dougal found it hard to follow what was happening . |
| 14 | Major problems arise when variceal bleeding is not adequately controlled by these procedures , which in the English series occurred in less than 10% of patients . |
| 15 | These fly-by-night ‘ bosses ’ changed so frequently that workers would lose track of who was actually employing them . |
| 16 | Any slight increase in delivery time occurred not necessarily when demand was greatest , but at periods of reduced staffing . |
| 17 | On Monday the figure rose once more when Frenchman Michel Bou passed away surrounded by the hi-tech machinery of Glasgow Southern General hospital 's neurological unit . |
| 18 | Rohmer had hold of the filing cabinet with Jimmy now , and Cardiff and Barbara moved quickly aside as Duvall reached the landing again , looking vacantly at the wrestling match with the cabinet . |
| 19 | Soon the Malthusian spectre rose up again as populations soared . |
| 20 | Gregory should have added a second but he headed tamely over after Gary Thompson had stormed down the right . |
| 21 | Furthermore , the jobs themselves left little time and energy for sociability outside the home because they involved both overtime and shift-work . |
| 22 | In the ninth century , members of this magnate stratum , this " imperial aristocacy " , could still move about the Carolingian world ; and they moved nearly always as individuals , no doubt with retinues , but not ( an exceptional case apart ) concerting action with groups of kinsmen . |
| 23 | Many of the residents moved out shortly after Mrs Hill announced her intention to sell , and in fact there were only four of us left when the new landlord took possession . |
| 24 | One man who booked a Rolls Royce and two Mercedes with the company last July said : ‘ We booked it and paid a £120 deposit and then found out later that things were not right . |
| 25 | He does not wish to be named but said : ‘ We booked it and paid a £120 deposit and then found out later that things were not right . |
| 26 | Even that surprised me until I found out afterwards that George had known about it all along ; I suppose they did n't want to risk him bringing it up first . |
| 27 | She had few friends to whom he objected as strongly as Bridget . |
| 28 | I I mentioned earlier on that bonuses are paid at proof stage . |
| 29 | You e mentioned earlier on that people received er food parcels ? |
| 30 | It is unlikely that such action would be taken unless the offending bonfire(s) occurred very frequently and witnesses were produced to that effect ’ . |