Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And to tell my friends to be more careful where they discussed other people 's affairs ! |
| 2 | He had but three vessels left and despite urgent pleas from his men — now demoralized again , fretful once they realized another ship was gone — to abandon the voyage and sail back to the Guadalquivir , he pressed on north-westwards , passing through scenery of a wild grandeur and beauty he had never known before . |
| 3 | Well I mean I , I , when I joined in forty nine the , the fire uniform was n't all that much different except they had black helmets instead of yellow , and , and they had rubber boots and they did n't have the leggings we have , and so on now , but the walking-out uniform was the old army battledress died blue , that 's all it was . |
| 4 | But you 'd be wrong if you met six men who live and work on Teesside . |
| 5 | Thankful that , though her ankle was still painful if she put any weight on it , her foot was n't swollen , Luce put on a pair of yellow flat-heeled sandals and , unable to contain her impatience a moment longer , picked up the crutch and headed down the corridor . |
| 6 | But we would be even more foolish if we imagined that modernity is neutral territory : it is enemy territory — as the world , for Christians , has always been . |
| 7 | The buzz , the uninhibited , excited talking , yes , uninhibited talking , in a district where you were made to feel peculiar if you allowed any expression to cross your face in the street , died as the lights slowly faded . |
| 8 | I VISITED the top secret Battle of the Atlantic command centre in Rumford Street and was very impressed , but I feel it would be even more interesting if they had dummy figures dressed in naval and wrens ' uniforms and placed in their respective positions . |
| 9 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 10 | it 's easier because you missed some booklets out , . |
| 11 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
| 12 | How do you explain this since you measured each angle from a different side ? |
| 13 | Crying , his duet with K D Lang , stormed to No 12 while I Drove All Night has just enjoyed a long Top 10 run . |
| 14 | With a dado rail you would hang all of one type first , but we did n't do this as we needed both pieces wet so we could cut right through the overlap point with a sharp knife and remove both pieces of waste to leave a perfect butt joint . |
| 15 | Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago . |
| 16 | His grandfather , Bo Min Yaung , had fought as a guerrilla against the British when they occupied Upper Burma . |
| 17 | ‘ I wish you could have talked about this when we had more time , Adam . ’ |
| 18 | The tentative price was £8,000 and Oceanic Airways of Australia were interested as they operated 10 Monospar four-seaters . |
| 19 | The distant forest became obscured by a misty darkness which closed in round them , broken by the odd pinprick of light as they passed some hamlet or village . |
| 20 | He looked very doubtful when I asked certain questions and laughed me to scorn when I gave my verdict . |
| 21 | If my final sentence reassured him in any way he gave no sign , watching dead-faced as I injected 10 cc of Prontosil . |
| 22 | The back bends could be more versatile if they had flatter carvers , with more radius in the stem . |
| 23 | Yes but then you see , in the ol in the old days Gordon , I mean , you we you were very fortunate if you got three meals a day and i and whatever you got you were glad of and used to eat it all . |
| 24 | In contrast , at Verdun a casualty — even once picked up — could reckon himself highly fortunate if he received any treatment within twenty-four hours . |
| 25 | She wondered if you would mind very much if they came another time . |
| 26 | In my view the jugular podge would n't show up so much if he had longer hair , but he never gives that coarse mousy matting of his any Lebensraum . |
| 27 | For example , say you 'd tinkered JMP-1 presets 4 , 14 , 20 and 26 until they represented sonic perfection . |
| 28 | It might be a bit awkward if you it might be highly reactive if you dropped molten metal onto it . |
| 29 | Renewed famine , more devastating even than that of 1984-85 , threatened an estimated 8,000,000 of the population , who faced starvation in 1991 unless they received 1,500,000 tonnes of food , according to relief agency estimates [ see p. 37945 ] . |
| 30 | He got to No 10 because he had 18 months earlier forced Neville Chamberlain to readmit him to the Cabinet . |