Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 5pm that day I went along to Anouska Hempel 's very individual and attractive showroom at 2 Pond Place , Chelsea , where I saw her really lovely couture collection , for which she derived the inspiration from Eastern Europe . |
| 2 | PS JOANNE … could you send me your fax number again if you still need the telegraph thing , the number you gave before is wrong — or I copied it down wrong . |
| 3 | This study might appear one sided with more detail about ‘ Anna Karenina ’ but I think it is inevitable and although I found it quite hard to compare such different styles , I enjoyed reading and studying both . |
| 4 | I like the self- portrait by him at 21 , although I found it quite depressing , he was only 21 and it 's absolutely fabulous ! |
| 5 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |
| 6 | I felt he maintained a distance and because of that I found him more difficult to approach than Dalglish if there was anything I needed to discuss . |
| 7 | And I have to confess that I found you as delightful then as I had in Wexford , and was intending to find out where you were going , and pursue the acquaintanceship . |
| 8 | The wide , airy nature of the streets here give the city a marvellously spacious feel , so that I found it most easy to spend some hours just strolling in the gently warm sunshine . |
| 9 | I would have sworn at that time that I loved her as much as she did me , more even , but subsequent events proved me wrong . |
| 10 | No sooner had I equipped Gillian and her Squire with a cup of Formosa Oolong than I asked her how old she was , what she did , and whether her parents were still alive . |
| 11 | He wanted to know why , so I asked him how much he knew about me . |
| 12 | She had complete confidence in the young nurse , although she found it very difficult to penetrate her reserve . |
| 13 | Lydia ignored this , although she found it quite flattering . |
| 14 | All contemporary accounts of Constanze 's character , except those originating from Leopold and Nannerl Mozart ( neither of whom ever really accepted her ) , together with the evidence of Mozart 's own letters to her , confirm that she made him as good a wife as he could have wished . |
| 15 | At least when that happened , she would stop feeling his rejection so poignantly — stop caring about the fact that she disgusted him so much that he did n't want anything to do with her except sexually , and that against his will and to the damage of his self-respect . |
| 16 | There was always something comforting about Ben : she felt that she loved him as much as she did Mrs Aggie . |
| 17 | Well , that did n't mean a thing to me , so she took me out next day to the Champs Elysée , into a very expensive shop . |
| 18 | Not just that we found him so many years ago . |
| 19 | Would that we found them totally bewildering ! |
| 20 | Rebecca 's Loud Blowsy Tart was the longest ‘ act ’ , so we dropped her off first at a wine bar near St Paul 's . |
| 21 | Not quite enough perhaps but still enough to be an admission that they got it seriously wrong in the year before . |
| 22 | It 's just that they reminded me so much of the poor child my husband killed . |
| 23 | they must before that they moved them out five or six years . |
| 24 | Alternatively , we might feel that people who took care to give different media sources exactly the same rating on an eleven-point scale were indicating quite strongly that they found them equally useful . |
| 25 | The Force knew that their meticulously erected edifices of proof would n't fall to pieces under cross-examination when he was in the witness box , although he sometimes suspected that they found him too scrupulous for complete comfort . |
| 26 | For the present , we can simply note that many of the women felt that relations between themselves and the staff were less formal than relations between the male students and the staff ; the women said that they found it quite easy to ‘ get round ’ the male staff , whereas several men complained that staff were quite unhelpful . |
| 27 | We made one together , one each in step by step so we showed 'em what to do and then if you were n't sure you asked or if he was n't doing it right so they did it together technical erm situation . |
| 28 | She had to obey her father , although it made her very sad . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , he greeted the Revolution with relief : in the Convention Parliament he was among the first to support William 's coup , although he saw it as crucial to take the opportunity to make England 's liberties more secure . |
| 30 | With dark hair cut quite short so that it revealed his classically shaped head , a deep tan finished with some light freckles , piercing blue eyes and a mouth that was generous in laughter and very straight and sober when he was absorbed in work , he had become the standard against which any other man she met was measured … and fell short . |