Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised that almost the instant she left me . ’ |
| 2 | The bridge humbucker has been designed to give a very hot response indeed , and I found that even the centre single coil kicked the amp quite nicely . |
| 3 | When I came back to Scotland I found that generally the standard of club rugby was lower . ’ |
| 4 | Before the war began , listening to reminiscences of those who had experienced the last war and sensing their dread , I imagined that once a war had started , no one would ever be happy again . |
| 5 | I showed that instead the symmetry would have broken everywhere at the same time , rather than just inside bubbles . |
| 6 | So , when at last I came to a small village with a large church , I decided that perhaps the priest might be the best person to tell me where these prehistoric pagans buried their dead . |
| 7 | So it was a way of getting out and I knew that eventually the council would have to rehouse me . |
| 8 | I feared that even an emergency home call might go unheeded . |
| 9 | I thought that presumably the bill was still divided proportionately between the countries . |
| 10 | No , I thought that perhaps a stroll down Unter den Linden — such memories for me there — and then I have another idea . |
| 11 | But then I thought that perhaps an accident was awaiting me or one of my relatives . |
| 12 | The body is made from a single piece of mahogany , which came as quite a surprise , because at a casual glance you 'd think it was ash . |
| 13 | Newman and his original associates ( all white and mostly women ) were hard-liners who argued that only a revolution of the working class could resolve the individual psychic crisis . |
| 14 | She entertained but fleetingly the notion of ringing the Bishop . |
| 15 | This was welcomed by the head of the Open Software Foundation in Japan , Dr Rob Morel , who ventured that possibly the Foundation was better positioned than before as a ‘ truly independent standards organisation ’ . |
| 16 | The two tests were explained in that case by the Lord Chancellor … who commented that not the law but our mode of life has changed over the years ; that what has changed is " the degree in which certain things have seemed susceptible of being put up as mere ornaments whereas at our earlier period the mere construction rendered it impossible sometimes to sever the thing which was put up from the realty . " |
| 17 | One of the girls , today , she wasn' say she was n't sure , but she was saying that she heard that perhaps the exam structure you have to incorporate all three phases of the |
| 18 | She fancied that somehow the blend of sophistication and cosiness that was Sophie would be able , if not to help ( how could she ? ) , to understand a little . |
| 19 | She implied that only a fool could allow what was known as ‘ love ’ to enter into consideration in the matter . |
| 20 | Her wings might be old and her talons blunt but strangely her illness had sharpened her mind even more and she knew that somehow a chance would come . |
| 21 | But in a short while , once he was gone from the house , she 'd have to go upstairs and read to her daughter and she knew that already the child was sensitive to her feelings : she would say , ‘ You sad , Mammy ? ’ or ‘ You vexed with me , Mammy ? ’ |
| 22 | Perhaps she did or perhaps the mine is a gathering-together of memories — of being shut in , starved of air , of light , of freedom of mind and body . |
| 23 | She gave that only a moment 's thought . |
| 24 | Giving in to the inevitable , and until she had found out the truth she had as yet no quarrel with his mother , Ellie relaxed her rigid stance . |
| 25 | She said , she said and then the thing ca came down and this get up and walk out I said go back and get them and get Joe to take them . |
| 26 | No doubt Joyce felt a certain satisfaction in this small triumph over the petty snobbery of British civil servants , who considered that only the word of a professional gentleman could be relied upon . |
| 27 | ‘ Parts of the Chambers Street building are 130 years-old and we found that virtually no maintenance had been carried out . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , in our previous study performed in 36 symptomatic patients , we showed that neither the concentration of gastric platelet activating factor output or the content of platelet activating factor in the gastric mucosa were significantly related to the inflammatory cell infiltration in the gastric mucosa . |
| 29 | We observed that sometimes a sentiment attributed to a powerful senior member of the county bureaucracy was accepted as sufficient grounds for considering a school more sympathetically ( or more critically ) than would otherwise be the case . |
| 30 | Everyone felt that even the attainment of a small portion of Palestine for the Palestinian Arabs would be a triumph . |