Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing happened for half an hour so I asked where the nearest Young Women 's Christian Association hostel was . |
| 2 | ‘ It was just that you seemed so interested in my being one of the survivors that I got quite the wrong initial impression . ’ |
| 3 | I have seen it — Not long ago , in Moscow on quite another mission , I tiptoed up the great empty staircase and , with a diplomatic passport in my pocket , stood in the eternal dusk that shrouds old ballrooms when they are asleep — With its plump brown pillars and gilded mirrors , it was better suited to the last hours of a sinking liner than the launch of a great initiative . |
| 4 | I gathered together the various sawn-up and wrenched-apart pieces of putter and put them in a drawer . |
| 5 | I thought how the other half live ! |
| 6 | I got up , washed , dressed , and Benjamin and I went down the great sweeping wooden staircase . |
| 7 | I gave up the stiff white collars that I had worn at the advertising agency and was careful to wear plain ties ; but my suits were Burton 's at £10 a time . |
| 8 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 9 | I pushed back the rusty old gate and staggered into the garden . |
| 10 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
| 11 | Clearly some rulers and ministers were being affected in the second half of the century by the complex and often conflicting currents which made up the great intellectual movement of the Enlightenment ( see Chap . |
| 12 | In fact , although each volume was prepared under the ‘ haute direction de M. Camille Saint-Säens , the great man himself edited only the first five volumes exclusively the keyboard and chamber music and motets . |
| 13 | The Jews became the link which undermined both the English national state and the structure of society . |
| 14 | Most damningly , it was the SDLP which brought down the last Labour Government . |
| 15 | At a recent press conference in Lahore , Nawaz Sharif claimed that it was his peace mission which brought about the joint US-Soviet communique which embarrassed the Bush government on the eve of Bush 's ‘ State of the Nation ’ address . |
| 16 | Bands of predatory freebooters , ex-soldiers turned bandits , preyed on a severely impoverished peasantry which had only the lowly Jewish traders as a target for its hatred . |
| 17 | Sperber and Wilson 's ( 1986 ) principle of relevance entitles the hearer to expect adequate contextual effects for the minimum necessary processing effort.5 This means that a speaker who is asked to say what , for example , was said in a lecture would not satisfy the principle of relevance if he or she read out the entire content word for word . |
| 18 | The three women who made up the much-admired Daily Mirror Reader Service , introduced in 1944 but cut by Maxwell ( on New Year 's Eve 1985 , the same day as Pilger himself had been ‘ purged ’ , as he put it ) , would come en masse , providing an unmatchable advice forum for the paper 's buyers . |
| 19 | This point is emphasised by John Byrne in The Headhunters , who described how the carefully-chosen new chief executive , Harold Geneen , ‘ the General Patton of American Industry ’ , effectively turned ITT around . |
| 20 | She caught only the last few words : ‘ the sooner this dangerous person is apprehended the better ’ , and switched off in frustration . |
| 21 | She walked past him into the tiny hallway and picked up her bags , noticing with relief that he was n't around when she fled up the narrow wooden stairs to one of the three bedrooms , the one furthest away from his . |
| 22 | Edith was already up , and had awoken him with her cries of woe when she drew back the heavy plush curtains to discover grey skies and drizzle . |
| 23 | Her colleagues said she came down the last few hundred feet singing Flower of Scotland with her instructor . |
| 24 | Crossing the coast road , she climbed up the gradual grassy slope on the land ward side of the sea wall . |
| 25 | It shone through , not only by the dedication she demonstrated to earn her outstanding successes internationally in both lawn tennis and golf but — in a way — even more so as she faced up the cruel two-year reality of fighting a terminal illness until her recent death at the age of 45 . |
| 26 | She saw Elaine as soon as she walked up the planked wooden steps to the bar , and noticed as she drew closer that her friend was already tipsy . |
| 27 | She walked up the smooth grassy knoll to the centre , and examined the patient . |
| 28 | She walked down the long red-carpeted aisle of St Paul 's Cathedral a commoner . |
| 29 | She breathed in the cool Japanese atmosphere she had worked to create for him , looked at the slatted chairs , the pale greys , the yellows . |
| 30 | She rubbed out the twisting horizontal line and put in a short straight one . |