Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government in response merely restated its previously declared position . |
| 2 | Bernice suddenly found she badly needed a drink , but her hip flask was empty . |
| 3 | One of the lawyers ' wives wanted to know the secret of Ellen 's coffee , and Ellen modestly said she just followed the percolator instructions , while the truth was that she put a cupful of cheap instant coffee powder into every percolated pot . |
| 4 | Abbe Gerard usually kept it well hidden . ’ |
| 5 | Nevertheless as a woman , a foreigner and a usurper , Catherine was never in a position to dispense with the backing of the landowning class in Russia even had she ever dreamed of doing so . |
| 6 | Their teeth and jaws can inflict such damage that an expert fisherman once told me never to put a finger in even a dead pikes ' mouth . |
| 7 | So at that point then did you almost give up hope that you would be rescued ? that you more or less were going to end in the sea at that point ? |
| 8 | In actual fact the er farmer put the planning application in to hold this market every week really refused it outright saying it 's a very sensitive area of Green belt and we did n't want two hundred er stalls there every Sunday on the car park coming out of the road and everything else . |
| 9 | BIRMINGHAM yesterday put itself forward to host the Expo world trade exhibition in 2003 . |
| 10 | As Meera is growing out her fringe , Caroline simply gave it more shape to tidy it up . |
| 11 | After asking what they would like to drink , Vitor provided cut-crystal glasses of vinho verde , but his duties as host quickly took him away to pour refills and greet other arrivals . |
| 12 | Scamp had an airtight alibi , naturally , but then again young Leakey never said who exactly had done it . |
| 13 | Mother always told you never to laugh at other people 's misfortunes . |
| 14 | Leavis always laid claim to the subtler view of controversy , but his doctrine was always easily open , as he knew , to cruder interpretations , and the fire-and-brimstone of his prose sometimes made it hard to interpret or understand in any other way . |
| 15 | Only when she had managed to stop crying and he had dried her face completely did he even attempt to answer . |
| 16 | If it is thus hardly surprising that he gave I and II Cnut his backing at a Christmas court at Winchester , it is also impossible to prove that his regime otherwise paid them much heed . |
| 17 | ‘ A little drop of rum never did anyone any harm ! ’ |