Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt that the atmosphere between them was suddenly much easier although he said nothing for a moment but kept on looking at her as if he were turning something over in his mind . |
| 2 | Yeah , I go to Mrs , erm can we fish , sharing lists I ga , you know , I think it 'll be easier if we did it in twos , and Becky goes why ? |
| 3 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 4 | His lectures were above all popular because he packed them with information . |
| 5 | I mention this because it brought me into favoured touch with the Commanding Officer for Wales , and through him I was able to gain admittance for Richard to Exeter College , Oxford , for six months prior to his joining the Royal Air Force , a privilege granted to very few cadets . |
| 6 | You told me you had a bit of a chat with Angy before you asked her about the ring . ’ |
| 7 | He suggested that in the meantime we should visit the Arussi mountains ; this would enable us to assess our men and , if necessary , change some before we committed ourselves to the Danakil country . |
| 8 | Not now you 'ave n't … even if you 'ad some before they dumped you in the Mersey , which I suppose you did 'ave … at some time or other like … . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ When we dragged Cpl Edwards out of his seat the back of his head had been blown off — but I still thought he would be OK when we got him to hospital . |
| 10 | Even so , in her darkest moments , wrong as she knew it to be , Constance could not stop herself thinking , If only it had been Mummy . |
| 11 | She was very calm when she rang me from the hospital asking for her mourning clothes . |
| 12 | His arms closed around her instantly , fiercely possessive as he pulled her against him . |
| 13 | " Or were you expecting this when you took us into the wood ? " |
| 14 | We could find no cause for this when I regressed him to an earlier period in this life and so I went on to regress him to what appeared to be a previous life . |
| 15 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |
| 16 | ‘ I was doubtful when you told me about sharing your house with two young vets , but now I think you were right . |
| 17 | Well she go Hilda got a baby boy about eighteen month old when I knew her like you know , and er she lived by I think it was I think it was you know and er what happened to her I be I think she had to go in a home or er you see and er baby boy was adopted like , the baby boy that 's about all I know about her that 's about all . |
| 18 | A vet who checked family records discovered he was 17 to 18 years old when he examined him at the Halewood RSPCA shelter yesterday evening . |
| 19 | The flat seemed cold and empty when she let herself in several hours later , and discovering a message from Kelly on the answering-machine brought no respite from the depression which had settled over her like a heavy black cloud . |
| 20 | I thought this was odd so I mentioned it to my bank , who were seriously unimpressed . |
| 21 | They felt he was bored so they took him to training classes and Tricia said he 's an absolute natural . |
| 22 | We both talk of love but those two were smarter than we took them for . |
| 23 | ‘ Not really , because it got so much bigger than we wanted it to straight away . |
| 24 | Research would be impossible if we restricted ourselves to this species . |
| 25 | It was dangerous because it left her at his mercy and as far as she knew he had none . |
| 26 | Miss Rantzen , 52 , won the damages from The People newspaper in December 1991 after it accused her of keeping quiet about an alleged sex pervert . |
| 27 | Well it sounded so simple when he said it over the telephone about two months ago . |
| 28 | As my car moved through the area announcing ‘ Meet shadow chancellor John Smith as he explains Labour 's policy on fiscal and monetary reform , ’ I noticed that the town was not as crowded as I remembered it from only that morning . |
| 29 | This was indeed fortunate as it prevented him from revealing the fossilization of his mind by repeating much of what he had written in 1986 . |
| 30 | He 's a thief , done time probably and well , ’ the waitress was looking more uneasy and going redder as she talked herself into more trouble , ‘ anyway here he is , ’ and she scuttled off . |