Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [conj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had heard that the lasses used to beat you up when you first got in and that the lesbians used to grab hold of you and that there was loads of violence and everything . |
| 2 | when , when the does , when the Twiggys came in and and the , the the angular woman er , of which I am not I wonder if that was the male view or what is the wo , the view that women have of themselves ? |
| 3 | And so it came about that while the Operational Staffs of the three Service Ministries were grappling with the Suez crisis of 1956 , which entailed increasing the Defence effort and calling up reservists to fill gaps in the order of battle for the contingency plan Musketeer , they were answering questions posed by the Hull Committee about the implications of halving Service manpower by April 1960 or 1961 at the very latest ! |
| 4 | The storm clouds gathered , the rain poured down and as the skies darkened , it became impossible to see the ball . |
| 5 | Lead levels from a system with lead piping are much higher in the first few pints that come from a tap that has been left turned off than after the water has run for a few minutes , as this flushes out much of the dissolved lead . |
| 6 | The finished case is thrown upon the floor ; the long narrow strip which is to form the frame of the drawer is laid upon the bright strip of ready-pasted paper , then bent together and joined by an overlapping bit of paper ; the edges of paper below are bent flat , the ready-cut bottom is dropped in and pressed down and before the fingers are withdrawn they fold over the upper edges of the paper inside the top . |
| 7 | There were , inevitably , undesirable aspects in this emphasis on preaching : congregations shopped about and when a preacher died the congregation dwindled : after Spurgeon 's death the attendance at the Tabernacle fell from over ten thousand to just over 3,500 . |
| 8 | If the start date is acceptable , LIFESPAN will display the titles of any outstanding process model task mail messages generated on or after the specified start date . |
| 9 | No book went in and where the woman put the figures in last week that was the end of it , it was in there to pick up , but it was still thirty quid out , so Pam started doing it |
| 10 | And I tell you another thing I noticed , I cut through the car park in the lane behind Shirley 's one day this week , I went through and and the back door of the old police station 's open . |
| 11 | He looked up as though the question had startled him . |
| 12 | The Broomielaw Quay was enlarged as years went by and after the arrival of steamships , created and born on this very river , the quays on the north bank were completed past Finnieston and down to Mavisbank by the 1880s . |
| 13 | Official Soviet anti-semitism , which has undoubtedly been observable since the foundation of the state of Israel in 1948 , must be measured against the rise of popular anti-semitism since political mobilisation ( including that of reactionaries ) became permitted again , not to mention the massacre of Jews on a considerable scale by local elements in the Baltic states and Ukraine , as the Germans marched in but before the systematic German killing of Jews began . |
| 14 | and she come in and she sat down and and the the hairdresser 's and here she was , I 'll be alright , I 'll be alright . |
| 15 | At last the rain held off and although the wind was a little strong I knew that I had to fly her . |
| 16 | Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both . |
| 17 | We pointed out that unless an appeal is lodged within 28 days of the sentencing he could be free in a little over two years . |
| 18 | Grenville pointed out that although no legal duty to attend school rests with the child , s/he might find her/himself the subject of ‘ welfare sanctions ’ . |
| 19 | He pointed out that although the Select Committee had regretted that the opinion of the assessors was not taken into consideration in the outcome of the competition , they would probably not have chosen Scott . |
| 20 | He also pointed out that although the new technology of agriculture is here to stay , we need to retrieve the wisdom of the past . |
| 21 | She pointed out that while the infant mortality rate was high in Burnley , where a large proportion of women worked , housing conditions were also very poor . |
| 22 | He pointed out that while the estimated number of drug users in the USA had fallen from 23,000,000 in 1985 to 14,000,000 in 1988 , evidence suggested that drug users now employed more types of drugs more frequently . |
| 23 | In this he pointed out that whilst the objectives model might be appropriate to those parts of education concerned with skills training and instruction ( acquisition of information ) , it was of no help in the area of understanding ( induction into thought systems ) . |
| 24 | Reports pointed out that though the act had been passed for women 's protection , it seemed it was being used almost exclusively to punish poor women . |
| 25 | He pointed out that when the council was barred from making further payments on the transactions , it had made a profit . |
| 26 | Peregrine Worsthorne , writing in The Sunday Telegraph , pointed out that if a foreign country had caused such havoc it would be termed ‘ the enemy ’ . |
| 27 | Einstein pointed out that if a galaxy lay between the Earth and a distant source of light , the light would be focused by the gravitational field of the galaxy . |
| 28 | As early as January 1959 Guevara emphasised the importance of agrarian reform and pointed out that if the constitutional requirements for compensation were met , the reform would be so slow as to be imperceptible . |
| 29 | Council members mostly agreed they are a hazard , and Peter pointed out that if the car that hit him on a roundabout had been fitted with them , he would n't be here now . |
| 30 | At each of these meetings , MacDonald pointed out that if the Labour Party were to refuse office after defeating the Government with the aid of the Liberals , and if Asquith were then to form a Government instead , the Liberals would sit on the Government benches . |