Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cressey ( 1962 ) himself saw that the lack of specificity on the actual process of learning was a problem with the theory , but pointed out that Sutherland had left it open to clarification in the light of future developments in learning theory . |
| 2 | Waiting for the kettle to boil , she thought about the other night , and the more she thought about it , the more obvious it became that Donna had got it wrong . |
| 3 | Shinwell sued , claiming also that Wilson had declared him unworthy of trust and unfit to hold office in a trade union . |
| 4 | And of course we have seen that Wittgenstein wanted to show it impossible that there should be beings who behave like us but have no sensations or different sorts of experiences from ours . |
| 5 | Similarly , in the post-war period , the national dailies managed to adapt their appeal so that people continued to find them useful , and advertisers therefore went on providing the essential economic base for most of them . |
| 6 | Mum was pleased as punch when she found that Mary had bought us new clothes , but she was not so pleased when Mary told her she could n't see them until the day of the wedding and took them straight up and locked them in her trunk . |
| 7 | And she told him all that Irene had told her that morning . |
| 8 | I had n't realised that Katabatic had beaten us six times so it 's nice to reverse the placings . ’ |
| 9 | And although Gramps had left her enough money for just this purpose she 'd been hoping to live cheaply so that she could stay in Ireland for at least a month , see as much of the country as she could . |
| 10 | Some of them believed that NASA had arranged it all for precisely that reason . |
| 11 | bella was of the opinion that Randall had done them all an immense favour by dying when he did , but Louise regarded it as the greatest of all his cruelties . |
| 12 | I went to the conference armed only with a general feeling of being pissed off that men seemed to have it all their own way . |
| 13 | ‘ I never meant to challenge him , I was carving only to pass my time — ’ His voice faded out wretchedly on the disclaimer , for that , too , was spoiled and finished now that Isambard had stripped it bare . |
| 14 | ( Only later did we learn that Peking had considered it fashionable to support small countries , struggling against ‘ hegemony ’ . |
| 15 | Nick was wearing yesterday 's shirt and the damp smell round the breakfast table told Erlich that Nick had washed his one pair of socks the night before . |
| 16 | She slung the milk saucepan casually on top of the other unwashed dishes in the sink , unbothered now by the mess , aware that Rachel had seen it all last night and had said nothing . |
| 17 | The sight of Dalziel and Pascoe had disconcerted him more than he had cared to show . |
| 18 | However , profit margins are tiny where they exist at all and ICI had made it clear that it was not chasing ‘ profitless prosperity . ’ |
| 19 | It was as if Ben had outgrown them all . |
| 20 | Swan asked Amaranth if Harvey had given her any information about the new motorway . |
| 21 | He was using the cordless phone she and David had bought him last Christmas . |
| 22 | He was taller than Huy , and labour had made him sinewy ; but he was older , and his guard had dropped . |
| 23 | If Yamaha wanted to give me one of these I would n't object ! |
| 24 | Caspar and Fenella had to explain it four times , and a fifth for Flaherty , who was still recovering from his overindulgence in the matter of the mulled wine . |
| 25 | In all there were eleven names , and Duncan had absorbed them all within five minutes . |
| 26 | Although over the preceding 12 months a combination of a deep economic recession , conciliatory gestures from many of the English-speaking provinces , and the skilful diplomacy of Bourassa , had served to cool some of the enthusiasm for independence , the province was due to hold a referendum on the sovereignty issue on Oct. 26 , and Mulroney had made it clear that he was keen to have reached some form of inter-provincial agreement prior to the vote . |
| 27 | The University and Catering had done us proud . |
| 28 | The man 's tone was dismissive , and Jaq had to allow him more credit for flexibility than he would have supposed . |
| 29 | She faltered , wondering if she could speak the devastation she had felt when Rosa and Dolores had shown her that tiny baby . |
| 30 | And Bill had cooked it last night and it were really nice , I bought it last week . |