Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Alice or Bert filled it with hot water and it leaked causing injury , would either of them have an action ? |
| 2 | Where Ann wrote it for last year , for my ri |
| 3 | At last she reached Broom House and rushed into the surgery , where Helen greeted her with evident relief . |
| 4 | Have we been expelled from an arcadia of fun where nature provided us with innocent automata , lowing and braying machines for our amusement ? |
| 5 | They did not stay long , because her drowsiness began to increase , and a short time later they left to go in search of Women 's Surgical , where Stella greeted them with pleased surprise . |
| 6 | It was in the boot-and-brushing room that Nicandra found her at last — after a search through the larders , the dairy , and the empty laundry , its warm steam now subsided into a vaporous chill . |
| 7 | And that Ivor switched it for another , less valuable guinea ? ’ |
| 8 | Only 13% ( 26 ) spoke to their spouse about it , and fewer than 10% mentioned it to another family member or friend . |
| 9 | ‘ It was to have children that Allah put her on this earth . |
| 10 | The trouble with Cabinet was not that Harold ran it through little cabals , but that there was no focal point of decision-making at all . |
| 11 | His report , an Essay on Convict Discipline ( 1838 ) , was so condemnatory of official policy that Franklin dismissed him in 1838 . |
| 12 | He liked to think that people put him above that kind of thing . |
| 13 | Born in St Petersburg , Iacovleff was associated with Bakst and Diaghilev before moving to Paris where such was his repute that Sargent described him as one of the greatest living draftsmen . |
| 14 | Female danger/power also rested on the fact that women occupied structurally marginal positions ( i.e. neither fully inside nor outside the system , not wholly nature nor culture ) and on the fact that society placed them in interstructural roles ( as wives and daughters ) with respect to alliance-making and linking disparate power groups . |
| 15 | The only difference was that Francis did it with more charm . |
| 16 | Merlin was soon known for his fantastic mechanical automata , and it is not inconceivable that Tylney met him at one of the many masquerades then all the rage in London . |
| 17 | Even Frank Sinatra said that Darin would be his successor — he had the same tremendous phrasing — although death cheated him of that . |
| 18 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 19 | It was a statement of fact rather than the opening shot in an argument and Trent accepted it as such . |
| 20 | They were gradually weaned off the drugs and Valnet treated them with internal doses of essential oils instead . |
| 21 | She was nineteen , the age Maria had been when she had first felt the power of Luke 's attraction , and Maria regarded her with ironic envy , wishing she could have reacted as insouciantly , her awe and admiration as impersonal as Penny 's , Luke confined to some remote pedestal along with other out-of-reach heroes , contact undreamed-of . |
| 22 | It was already deep in debt , after repeated maladministration and corruption amongst its earlier inmates , and Wolsey seized it in 1525 . |
| 23 | She had five children , and her own independent income , and Creevey married her in 1802 . |
| 24 | Fairbrother was shuffling reluctantly out of the stone doorway as he returned , and Richard greeted him with sarcastic cheerfulness . |
| 25 | Although his groups , ‘ Tiddlers ’ , ‘ Ritz ’ , and ‘ Boys ’ , reflected increasing involvement in delinquent activities , they served the same function of enabling young people to achieve the sort of reputations and images denied them in mainstream society . |
| 26 | In particular , the powerful Beni-Gomez family schemed continually against Rodrigo until Alfonso banished him in 1081 . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 28 | Sweden more than doubled its crop area between 1840 and 1880 , Italy and Denmark expanded it by more than half , Russia , Germany and Hungary by about a third . |
| 29 | Her hard work and determination set her in good stead for the confrontation she had had with the Johnson representative , Albert Buller . |
| 30 | A PENSIONER has told how positive thinking and determination pulled him through two strokes . |