Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 2 | I only took it in social situations . |
| 3 | I never asked her for total commitment ( after all , if I were into monogamy would I have done such a good job of dangling that little Limnititzker tsatskeleh in front of her nose ? ) , but I would have hoped the woman would stand by me in a crisis . |
| 4 | Yet she remained tense , trying to vanquish that unease which always attended her on transatlantic flights , despite a helpful air-sickness pill . |
| 5 | Seeing the mist that deepened the dark grey of her eyes , the pale translucent cheeks , both so beautiful now in their glowing copper setting , it was all Benedict could do not to snatch her back into the heat of his embrace , and force his way to that intimate deep caress , the thought of which now fired him with passionate yearning . |
| 6 | Scots-born ( in Elgin ) , educated at Aberdeen University , qualifying as a CA , then joining Alcan Aluminium , he realised his experience and qualifications were ‘ quite narrow ’ and so headed off to Manchester Business School and an MBA which then took him into international consultancy with McKinsey . |
| 7 | She only had them in bloody September like . |
| 8 | She patiently gammed him for long minutes ; fondling his testicles with one hand , and exploring the cleft of his arse with the other . |
| 9 | An attempt was also made to take the vacuum pump body , but its weight and bulk seemed to defeat the thief , who nevertheless hid it in nearby bushes . |
| 10 | Wealthy friends who still held him in high regard as a man , raised money and set the family up in a 500 acre property which they arranged in the names of Mrs. Piper and the children . |
| 11 | Along a route taking in the castles of Niddry , Cadzow and Craignethan she rallied sympathizers who still regarded her as rightful queen . |
| 12 | Martinus , a just man , protested to Paulus , who promptly threatened him with instant imprisonment for his interference . |
| 13 | ‘ You nearly expected me in vain , ’ the Friar said . |
| 14 | ‘ And there was I imagining that underneath that hostile exterior there was a girl who really held me in high esteem . ’ |
| 15 | I knew I was n't the only victim because I had heard complaints from others ; the fruiterer who saw his apples disappear from the box in front of the shop , the grocer who unwillingly supplied him with free biscuits . |
| 16 | She then draped it with vivid red silk , secured in place with a glue gun . |
| 17 | Indeed , Mme Colet was obliged to send all her love letters to Gustave via Maxime du Camp , who then readdressed them in fresh envelopes . |
| 18 | The funds were often borrowed by speculators who then reinvested them in strong currencies in the expectation of revaluations , a hideous spiral by which central banks were providing funds to speculators who stood to make a profit from them if the currency was revalued . |
| 19 | She never wore it with ordinary patients . |
| 20 | Erm so , in principle we 've agreed that schedule , er I 'm waiting for erm Bob to sort V I out and the name erm as you may be aware erm Bob wants to call it client servicing and our view was that by and large it was n't a question of having to have loads more different screens we just needed them in different areas and they could , they 'd go to Louise to get where people were going to be and it 's mostly about the R S six thousand for commission erm on which there are only about twenty of those anyway , twenty seven so I did n't really see that as being a major issue . |
| 21 | I did n't really like the people at OUCA [ the Oxford University Conservative Association ] , they just struck me as spotty spods . ’ |
| 22 | They just picked you at random ? |
| 23 | If people genuinely wanted social change from the educational system ( and they did ) , they generally wanted it in familiar guise . |
| 24 | As a small boy , I devised my own set of cartoon animals , and they now stood me in good stead . |
| 25 | But having put him in , he rarely consulted him on general policy issues and gave hint little role even in industrial disputes , which were still the traditional concern of the Board of Trade . |
| 26 | He just saw you as cheap labour and that was the end of it . |
| 27 | I do n't know if he ever guessed my feelings but he always treated me with great kindness and understanding . |
| 28 | He was not quick to anger and confrontation ; shocks caught up with him slowly and he usually faced them in solitary depression rather than by throwing a scene . |
| 29 | The only widespread bond that clearly separated some of them from Russians was their Catholicism , but it also separated them from fellow Belorussians . |
| 30 | Thus , not only did the strike draw new resources from the mining villages , it also recreated them as different places , with altered cultural forms . |