Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I used ter sit at me front door when the weavver was good , an' when it was cold I used ter lay in bed till dinner-time . |
| 2 | In the miners ' dispute Lord Wilberforce became deeply enmeshed in job evaluation , the social and physical conditions in the pits and , above all , the need to produce a settlement under which the miners would go back to work . |
| 3 | Suddenly at this culmination point in the healing rite , the whole assembly became unaccountably convulsed with mirth , and the puzzled anthropologist , note-book at the ready , pushed her way forward to the front of the crowd . |
| 4 | The men and women I met often spoke of regret and loss — not a nostalgia for the past , those glazed memories that falsify the hard history of the working people by claiming that the past was better . |
| 5 | She felt suddenly dirtied by death , ashamed of the knowledge she had gained when she witnessed the cessation of breathing that marked the end of her parents ' lives , sad and sullied by the separations she had lived through . |
| 6 | Finally , in the second edition of his journal of Researches , the observation emerged fully fledged as testimony to Darwin 's theory of convergent behavioural evolution . |
| 7 | Mr. Barnes ' affidavit quoted above showed beyond question , he submitted , that the Bank of England had asked themselves the right question ( paragraph 9 ) and that they did indeed require the production of the documents reasonably for the purposes of their own domestic supervision ( paragraphs 8 , 10 and 13 ) . |
| 8 | Back in the kitchen , Carolyn gave Annie a saucer of currants to eat ( she ate them so beautifully , one by one , held painstakingly pincered between thumb and index finger , her other fingers cocked like a tea-sipping lady ) and carried on with the food . |