Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fred apparently thinks we initiated this policy , and resents the fact that he will no longer be able to produce a certain number of high-quality meals . |
| 2 | The first was over the board 's decision to close the senior staff dining-room and require staff to eat in the staff canteen : Fred apparently thinks you initiated this policy , and resents the fact that he will no longer be able to produce a limited number of high-quality meals and thus ingratiate himself with the senior staff . |
| 3 | By tactfully praising and criticizing at the same time , he had pupils flocking into the school , eager to train , rightly believing he had special abilities in this sphere . |
| 4 | The one , that , even while giving her a verbal warning about her work , he had handed her a very important file to work on — albeit only to ensure she had little time for anything else — must mean that he had received good reports on her ability . |
| 5 | The market for British films was not sufficiently large to justify mass production of films at budgets high enough to ensure they reached real quality , and executives at Stoll did n't understand the difference between good stories and good cinema . |
| 6 | In so doing he found another character , John Higgs , who became central to his development . |
| 7 | He said the young people obviously thought they had some measure of adult approval . |
| 8 | Many of the latecomers , especially as the afternoon wore on , were furious to find the doors locked , not having heard of the noon closure and so thinking they had all day . |
| 9 | I only wish I had that opportunity when I was his age . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I only wish I had some anecdotes of my own to compete with yours . ’ |
| 11 | I can only say I took some heart in all of this from the following interchange which had taken place on 1 May between my good friend Sir Patrick McNair-Wilson ( Member of Parliament for the New Forest ) and the prime minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 12 | What she say , thanks to you lot so wondered he survived this lot . |
| 13 | Mia has since said she found true happiness with Allen . |
| 14 | I did not think you thought such things . |
| 15 | I do not think I deserved this sort of treatment . |
| 16 | He was now , in any case , extremely happy ; " I 'm the luckiest man in the world , " he told Robert Giroux , and to Joseph Chiari he said that he did not think he deserved such happiness . |
| 17 | The UN had not said he deserved political asylum . |
| 18 | When they were not meeting they wrote long letters . |
| 19 | Applying these principles to the facts of this case , the central allegations were that Savory Milln knew that £23m of the sub-underwriting was being arranged through Mr Ferriday , knew that he was personally responsible for £7.5m and that it did not believe he had sufficient funds to cover his obligations . |
| 20 | I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs . |
| 21 | ‘ They have suffered a reaction to going out of Europe , just like we did last season , but they will bounce back . ’ |
| 22 | I woke up and opened my eyes and there were fuzzy patches , just like I had eight years ago … ’ |
| 23 | And Royle is hoping to outsmart the old master , just like he did last season . |
| 24 | The USA told the Philippine government on Sept. 24 that if agreement was not reached it wanted four years to withdraw its forces from Subic Bay . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not saying we became best buddies because we never did , ’ says Penny . |
| 26 | However , the five who rejected the appeal over the beating of a seven-year-old boy in an English boarding school stressed that that did not mean they condoned corporal punishment in principle . |
| 27 | He just knew he had cheap labour . |
| 28 | Child killer Beverley Allitt has finally admitted she attacked nine children . |
| 29 | Since then I I 've like say I missed ten Fridays yeah ? |
| 30 | ‘ Tom McKeith and David Laing are good additions to the team and we 've always felt we had great strength in depth . |