Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not , however , accepted either by the English or by the Pope , to whom Edward repeatedly appealed for help . |
| 2 | My heart always jumped with fright whenever I saw one of my poems in print , because I was sure it would contain one of the misprints whose steady drizzle has haunted my work all my life . |
| 3 | The only other person in the bar was an old inhabitant of Cobham and during our conversation I mentioned that my beat-grandfather once lived in Cobham but had died many years before I was born . |
| 4 | But I soon reminded myself that such trivial slips are liable to befall anyone from time to time , and my irritation soon turned to Miss Kenton for attempting to create such unwarranted fuss over the incident . |
| 5 | My father never went to bed without supper , no matter what happened . |
| 6 | My father never bothered with things like that , he looks a page three or the back ones , sport or sex , not politics . |
| 7 | My dad never talked about appearance much , only to make a clinical/medical-type comment . |
| 8 | ‘ My mother never talked about money , you see . ’ |
| 9 | My mother fortunately wrote to Eliot on 20 August 1940 , and he answered : |
| 10 | Her case only came to light because the Health Authority meeting were mistakenly sent to the media . |
| 11 | Relating that to Labour 's ‘ unprecendented mass conversion ’ to moderation in Brighton last week , Mrs Thatcher said she did not believe her opponents now stood for home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude . |
| 12 | Hortense and her sons also went into exile , for all the Bonapartes were banished from France in perpetuity , by a decree of Louis XVIII , and as a result of the hostility of the major European States Hortense had great difficulty in finding some corner of Europe where she could set up home . |
| 13 | She struggled , kicking out hopelessly , and her heart almost burst with panic . |
| 14 | If Aunt Emily had looked shocked before her eyes now dilated in horror . |
| 15 | Benny tried to concentrate on the Doctor 's words while her eyes continually strayed towards Elaine . |
| 16 | An airline is to change its flying procedures after one of its aircraft almost crashed in Oxford . |
| 17 | Besides these photographs were Pedro 's polo helmet , which now had a map of the Malvinas stamped on the front ( which Angel always wore in matches ) , and a jar of earth he 'd dug up from the Islands on the day he 'd been sent home as a prisoner of war . |
| 18 | Farmers argued that as their day already began at sunrise , they would gain nothing and would also lose an hour for their workers insisted on finishing at the same time as town dwellers . |
| 19 | Their sympathies automatically lay with Britain 's enemies , whoever they might be ; a range of people from Hitler 's Nazis , to the Kennedy tribe in America . |
| 20 | The nun who admitted them appeared to be covered from head to foot apart from her eyes , nose , and mouth , for after she had bolted the gate behind them she tucked her bare hands into her sleeves , then led the way up a gravel path , on either side of which a lawn extended as far as a further high , stone wall , its top also embedded with glass . |
| 21 | Their fleets soon arrived at Constantinople and the war promised to be the most wide-ranging since the fall of the first Napoleon . |
| 22 | Islington can not even benefit from the ‘ dowry ’ system ( money paid by a health authority to a local authority for each patient returning to the community from hospital ) because their people never went to hospital . |
| 23 | She ran to the end of the alley and was about to scale the ten-foot wire fence when the bleeper attached to her belt suddenly shrilled into life . |
| 24 | Successful cultures needed room to expand , because their success usually led to population growth which eventually was too great for the local environment to sustain . |
| 25 | As the absent soldiers who had overstayed their leave mostly came from Ireland , he felt it was n't his fault . |
| 26 | Ten per cent of its finances still came from government sources in the early sixties . |
| 27 | Her voice suddenly swooped into hysterics . |
| 28 | He was received by old Mrs Ferrar and Nicholas , to whom he spoke frankly of how he had heard of ‘ their watching and praying at night , of their altar richly decked with plate , tapestry and tapers , of their adoration and genuflections on entering therein , which might savour of superstition and popery ’ . |
| 29 | They all face the same problem : their strength traditionally lay in parish life , traditional communities , and what the sociologists call ‘ cultural embeddedness ’ . |
| 30 | As the English were forced back , their archers belatedly came into action , but showered more arrows into the backs of their own troops than into Bruce 's . |