Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y . |
| 2 | The outside stitches can now be removed , or I sometimes leave them as a trimming , worked in a contrasting colour . |
| 3 | Tell yourself ‘ Writing this letter will be easy and fun ’ ( not that it ‘ wo n't be difficult ’ , or you still associate it with the word ‘ difficult ’ ) . |
| 4 | Anyone else using the mark or one nearly resembling it in relation to the same class or classes infringes the mark . |
| 5 | On 18 December 1689 the anniversary of William 's first entrance into London was cele-brated with a huge procession through the City , as crowds carried effigies of James 's chief ministers through the streets to Temple Bar , where they ritualistically hanged them at a " triple galloes " set up next to a great bonfire . |
| 6 | She clung to him as he charged up the stairs and into her bedroom where he unceremoniously dumped her on the bed . |
| 7 | Her hand throbbed beneath his where he still trapped it on the table . |
| 8 | For the second lot , he may have another code which I do n't have or he just knows them by heart . |
| 9 | I am glad you like Mr. Gould : — he has been always very obliging to me — although I never knew him till lately : Mrs. G. appears an exceedingly pleasant & amiable woman . |
| 10 | although I never see her on Wednesday night . |
| 11 | Having read that I immediately repent me in dust and ashes for having committed a dreadful grammatical error . |
| 12 | So tail-waggingly , bone-snafflingly puppyish that I nearly tickled him under the ears . |
| 13 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 14 | I am sorry to say that I never heard her at her best because of circumstances . |
| 15 | ‘ You know the bad consequence of my laying myself under unnecessary obligation , and you will therefore take care that I only do it for real Friends that I can depend upon , ’ the member of parliament warned . |
| 16 | I 've got to be made to realize that I only love him for what I can get out of it . |
| 17 | Not that I really expected them to ; I could hardly expect the Umpire to side with me so soon . |
| 18 | I used to watch him sleep , wondering what bloody crimes lay in his past , and knowing that I alone protected him from a horrible death . |
| 19 | I once shocked him by admitting that I sometimes took it in my tea . |
| 20 | But she was still smiling at me , so I just tied it in a knot and left it . |
| 21 | ‘ Because of the angle I had no chance of getting it over the bar with my right foot so I simply hit it with the left and it went over . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm not brave , so I always spot it in others . ’ |
| 23 | She was born in Middlesbrough and her parents and family were from Skelton , so I always assumed it to be a North Yorkshire expression . |
| 24 | ‘ Bryan has a pedal board , but because he 's trying to concentrate on singing and leading the band he ca n't be standing there trying to switch his pedals all night , so I usually run them from the side . ’ |
| 25 | I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them . |
| 26 | ‘ You did n't say anything about your brother so I never mentioned him to Emily Grenfell . |
| 27 | After I introduced the hemp earlier the fish seemed to go off the feed so I only introduced it for four or five casts . |
| 28 | She took up the piano and , according to her headmistress Ruth Rudge , ‘ made phenomenal progress for someone who started late ’ ; and although she never made it into any of the school teams , she loved tennis . |
| 29 | Be quite good , although you maybe do it by accident sometime and be rather jerky ! |
| 30 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |