Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [vb past] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next fourteen days I spent all the daylight hours either on the forest road , on which no-one but myself ever set foot , or in the jungle , and only twice during that period did I get near the tigress . |
| 2 | Little for that matter did I believe that this experience was to be the start of a whole new direction in my life , the lessons of which I have attempted to set out in this book . |
| 3 | Nerves got the better of me and only when Les Cox stopped me to go for another take did I realise I 'd got my letters mixed up and had inadvertently said : ‘ Will you switch these sans off please ? |
| 4 | Fascinated , she watched as this object rose towards her , and only after several seconds did she realize that it was a screeching flight of birds , whirling on the updraught towards the freedom of the skies . |
| 5 | England winger Andy Sinton bagged a glorious hat-trick but goalkeeper Neville Southall 's deliberate handball after 19 minutes saw him receive the first red card . |
| 6 | Even indoors , where vigorous exercise was impossible , I would insist on open windows , explaining that lack of fresh air made me feel sleepy . |
| 7 | it appeared to me little short of a miracle that a hard , matter-of-fact scientist should have been able to establish a real friendship with wild , freeliving animals , and the realisation of this fact made me feel … as though man 's expulsion from the Garden of Eden had thereby lost some of its bitterness . |
| 8 | Even now the recollection seized him in the abdomen , and a kind of sick longing made him tremble . |
| 9 | Mr Brown 's respectful reception of these corkers made me wonder what he looks like . |
| 10 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
| 11 | Lady Augusta xenophobically added : ‘ … a sort of national prejudice made me attribute the grace and dignity of the scene , for what there was of either came from her , to the blood of Kirkpatrick ! ! ! ’ , a reference to Eugénie 's Scottish grandfather |
| 12 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 13 | Do you wan na piece of orange Sue did you say ? |
| 14 | But on none of those occasions did I put the case in the way that the Leader of the House put his case tonight , making it all the more necessary for us to oppose him now . |
| 15 | A short stab of icy wind made him huddle deeper into his cloak and he stirred to keep the hot blood flowing through his veins . |
| 16 | The Society of African Missionaries made him sign a document promising to be ‘ Faithful to church teaching in matters of faith and morals . ’ |
| 17 | Of course , I had no idea whether these ladies were right or wrong , but the revelation of fragments of past lives helped me come to terms with my true nature , and to understand why I had been troubled in the past . |
| 18 | I thought that this was a painting I should n't discuss with Lili , but only when I had walked to the end of the gallery to look at an innocuous picture of a group of long-haired sheep did I ask myself what Robert had been doing in Marie Claire 's bedroom . |
| 19 | This last point is certainly not irrelevant , since the commemorative scroll sent to me from the Palace names Leslie as of the Parachute Regiment ; and under this unit did he appear for the last time in the Army List . |
| 20 | I got to my feet and helped them , and Nell with teasing amusement watched me fold pink napkins into water lilies and said , ‘ Well , well , hidden depths , ’ and I answered , ‘ You should see my dishwashing , ’ which were the sort of infantile surface remarks of something we both guessed might suddenly become serious . |
| 21 | In neither case did they mean they had personally been involved . |
| 22 | Deacon had taken over the head of the formation as the leader 's R/T was not working , and calling a warning to the other pilots , he swung into the attack on one Messerschmitt from the quarter position , breaking away to attack a second similarly , though in neither case did he observe any results . |
| 23 | Their pale flesh in that wreckage made her shiver ; it stirred morbid thoughts of the fragile membrane retaining blood inside the body , the tender transitions between limb and limb , the throbbing larval transparency of scientific diagrams showing the foetal development of … infant salmon , infant monkeys , infant anything . |
| 24 | Would you believe that the sight of her in that condition made me feel differently about her ? |
| 25 | Mr in due course did you go to the flat ? |
| 26 | Only once in this period did he sleep with someone of his age , and on this occasion he chose someone who looked almost exactly like himself . |
| 27 | The reputation for energy and honesty which Truman gained from this work helped him win the nomination for the vice-presidency in the 1944 election , after more prominent candidates had cancelled each other out . |
| 28 | She had to face the handicaps of severe diabetes but , true to Greek ideals , she endured them with stoicism ; only on four occasions in 30 years did she break down under these cruel burdens . |
| 29 | Working alongside such eroticism made them feel awkward . |
| 30 | What I what I thought was , well let's have erm , Woodrow Wilson , okay , as you said at the beginning of the book , Freud admits that he did n't like Wilson , and that he felt betrayed by Wilson , like a lot of people in Central Europe did I suppose , because you know , Wilson came over erm , with fourteen points as the saviour of the world , and went away leaving with a piece of . |