Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 I knew that I would probably lose the case if I did , and lose everything , but for my own personal esteem I needed to actually make that stand . ’
2 As Bourn did not boast an anemometer we had to quickly learn wind speed by other means , such as how much or how little the trees were bending in the wind and whether the distant windsock was at full stretch or hanging limply from its staff .
3 This was a peripatetic Diogenes of the masses though , and fined for obstruction he had to constantly seek new pitches : ‘ His barrel was sandwiched between a fasting girl and a flea circus .
4 In the event we agreed to only save seventy nine thousand pounds .
5 Not that Both would ever admit to bowling a straight one the ball he produced to finally get rid of was a gem and it turned the match away from India .
6 She watched him for as long as she could bear to , anger warring with a sense of duty , then abruptly she marched into the house , and with gritted teeth and a distinctly martyred feeling she began to resentfully sort out a bag to take with her to Soufrière .
7 Fay : ‘ Mr Potts , he was ever such a laugh : but when he got in a temper he used to really shout and nobody took any notice . ’
8 Now Dr Winfield — and I have ratified this — made 127 sorties ; he could not have enjoyed his period at the Institute very much because he never seemed to he there , But he would come on a station with some project he wanted to fully research and he believed the only way to fully research these things was to " try them out on the dog " .
9 Left back Ray Daniel 's cross was expertly controlled by Alan McCloughlin and he fed Walsh , who had all the time he needed to coolly slot in the ball .
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