Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [subord] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The warning came yesterday as Labour dismissed the announcement by the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , of a £500 million rise in Scottish Office expenditure . |
| 2 | The distance learning materials do not always reach the students when needed , and a survey indicated that they rarely received more than one visit a year from their supervisor because of the shortage of transport . |
| 3 | On the first night Rose Lipman came backstage as usual to wish the cast good luck . |
| 4 | He made something of a jovial name for downright failure : a big , heavy man ( probably seventeen stone ) , he barely averaged more than four runs an innings and he took only eight wickets in his long but profoundly uneventful playing career . |
| 5 | The claims will also leave the country stunned today as millions count the cost of Christmas and the chances of losing their job in the New Year . |
| 6 | But I 'm very proud of you , and your mother would have been , too … you worked harder than most to get that degree , my dear , even putting your health at risk … ’ |
| 7 | The whole company ethos of keeping everything within the plant and of not talking to television or papers survived even when all seemed lost . |
| 8 | ‘ He called round as usual to collect the interest . |
| 9 | Once past this hurdle , there came the committee stage taken on the floor of the House , when detailed amendments could be moved clause by clause , and again all amendments had to be taken and this stage went on until each had been dealt with . |
| 10 | She put on her prettiest night dress , and took longer than usual to brush her hair ; she put a dab of perfume behind her ears — on her neck — between her breasts . |
| 11 | It would not be granted if the court felt it went further than necessary to meet the complaint . |
| 12 | Jahangir 's defeat will increase speculation that the man who once went more than 500 matches unbeaten , may sometime next year retire . |
| 13 | Erm er embarrassment or reticence because there are so many other people erm there , but I think you , you meant more than that did n't you and |
| 14 | The 88open offshoot will come into being in or around May , provided it does n't get itself bought outright before that happens . |
| 15 | The 88open offshoot will come into being in or around May , providing it does n't get itself bought outright before that happens . |
| 16 | His speech was delivered by means of fingerspelling ( the mode adopted by all speakers who were each limited to ten minutes ) : Before I went to America I was rather one-sided , and opposed the teaching of speech too much ; but after entering the celebrated college at Washington , I saw that not only could speech be taught with much success , but that those educated on the combined system spoke better than those educated on the so-called pure oral method . |
| 17 | So powerless was I to control the evolution that , even when I very much wanted to retrace a particular evolutionary pathway it proved all but impossible to do so . |
| 18 | She remembered exactly when this had come about . |
| 19 | The likely shape of the leadership contest emerged yesterday as Labour began an inquest on its election defeat . |
| 20 | Those who wanted more than 500 have been scaled down , as the table illustrates . |