Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the next block a man I had never seen before rushed up to me with a jug . |
| 2 | But the phenomenon of mild chronic depression in total states is probably not unrelated to parallel depressive tendencies to which I have already alluded when discussing the manic-depressive morphology of primal agriculture . |
| 3 | The charge I have often heard when working overseas that ‘ school is boring ’ is a comment on the quality of life in the classroom . |
| 4 | Father ran a butcher 's shop in which Fagg also worked until called up in nineteen thirty-nine . |
| 5 | A head like none she 'd ever seen before bobbed out of the waves , whiskered and grinning and as big as her whole body . |
| 6 | Embarrassment more acute than anything she 'd ever known before rooted her to the spot as the sounds of laughter and applause rang out all around her . |
| 7 | Suddenly he halted , and aggression such as she 'd never seen before filled him . |
| 8 | But she looked fully recovered when despatching her unranked opponent in one hour . |
| 9 | She had also wondered if seeing the places he went might make her feel closer to him , but it had n't . |
| 10 | Experience that she had once accepted as belonging only to the dream-world of the cinema screen , really existed , was to be grasped at the cost of a little determination . |
| 11 | She had once shown me , at some distance from the train in which we were travelling , a high brick wall enclosing the park of a great house : in this wall could clearly be seen a door , and through that door , Grandma told me , she had always passed when going off duty . |
| 12 | Finally , your attitude will affect how successful you are in achieving what you want and achieving the plans that you have already made whilst working through this book . |
| 13 | And see s.24(3) : [ n ] o goods shall be regarded as having continued to be stolen after they have been returned to the person from whom they were stolen or to other lawful possession or custody or after that person and any other person claiming through him have otherwise ceased as regards these goods to have any right to restitution in respect of the theft . |
| 14 | The driver objected on the ground that he was averse to needles and that he had once fainted when giving a sample of blood . |
| 15 | Her name was Gail Danski , a prim-looking chick , but not so prim when you got her into a dark corner , as he had once discovered when taking her home after a school dance . |
| 16 | He remains reasonably treated when considering his easy success at Ludlow last season , and it is interesting that trainer Tim Forster makes him his banker for the Christmas period . |