Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I still feel somewhat gobsmacked by the way he appointed me . |
| 2 | Set above an aquiline nose , they only hinted at the sensuality which was clearly evident in the curved line of his mouth and his hard , determined chin . |
| 3 | On other occasions a wind suddenly blew from a direction which made recording trains on the climb from Shepton Mallet impossible , or a sudden rain storm blew up at an inopportune moment . |
| 4 | You know he only went to he only went for a pee you know what I mean that cramming five pound and ten pound deals at him , and he 's going , No you can , you know . |
| 5 | He only knew of the life he had led in the baby-farming house , one of seventeen young children . |
| 6 | I suddenly thought of a way I could help Herbert . |
| 7 | He suddenly thought of the hat she had lost , searched for it , and found it among some leaves on the ground . |
| 8 | It 's no good just using simple words to describe each step in that argument , if the whole argument gets so convoluted by the time you finish the listener thought , ‘ Well , I understood the bits , but I did n't understand the whole . ’ |
| 9 | This was a fraction of the damage it eventually suffered from the acquisition it made instead , Crocker National . |
| 10 | Well you just got into the way you lifted them and you just look my elbows are . |
| 11 | These somewhat standard indictments nevertheless came from a scholar who had grown up in the York school under Archbishop Ecgberht and gained maturity in the household of Archbishop Aethelberht as master of the school until he joined the court of Charlemagne in the early 780s . |
| 12 | When that finally came to a crisis I was within four days of complete paralysis . |
| 13 | After seeing Mr Stephens disappear around the corner , she examined the small room minutely , the books on the shelf — reading out all their titles aloud — the three prints on the wall , " The Education of the Young Raleigh " , " Derwentwater at Dawn " and " The Drunkard 's Children " — drew her boots appreciatively over the mat , picked up the jug of pencils and finally came to the oven which was next to the sink . |
| 14 | Wasteland , half-hidden behind hoardings , came into view and Tony soon arrived at the site which had held the theatre . |
| 15 | Even that proved not enough to save her ; less than a year after her father 's passing , she finally succumbed to the illness which had beset her for so long , and was laid to rest at St John 's . |
| 16 | Somehow I just knew in the end we would get back to the subject of money ! |
| 17 | But if you just looked at the work he 's been churning out lately , without knowing anything about his business activities , you 'd wonder what had happened to him . |
| 18 | He 's certainly saying I find a pattern here because he 's using it , as his pattern to understand and I only just said at the beginning what the , makes the Jews Jewish , what gave them their national character and their , their ethnic identity . |
| 19 | Ooh just stayed on the green he 's not pleased with it . |
| 20 | The oars dipped unhurriedly in the calm water , and when the boat eventually arrived at the shore there was a further infuriating delay before the procession formed up and began making its way round the harbour to Ballingolin . |
| 21 | When I eventually arrived at the hospital I was feeling in the best of spirits and apparently shook the sisters by asking them to bring on the dancing girls . ’ |
| 22 | I once read about a boxer who did that . |
| 23 | It 's , it 's like the one aunty Lynne had and I , I bought for aunty Lynne , years ago , that I still got in the cupboard you know . |
| 24 | The county council highways and transportation committee yesterday agreed to the scheme which excludes all traffic , including cyclists , between 10.30am and 4pm . |
| 25 | MISS Whiplash yesterday announced in a letter she was returning to Britain to stand as Corrective Party candidate in the Newbury by-election . |
| 26 | But Mesopotamia and Egypt still lived in a world which had been built in the second millennium upon the power of monarchy — the divinely protected monarchy of Mesopotamia and the divine monarchy of Egypt . |
| 27 | Preferably swathed in a scarf which can double as a belt , a bikini top — or even as a scarf . |
| 28 | She wrenched her face away from his , her breathing fast and shallow as she stared up at him , her pupils still dilated from the passion he 'd stirred in her . |
| 29 | Once Frank Connor had left the certainties of life in County Limerick , he always seemed like an actor who had wandered into the wrong play . |
| 30 | I once heard of a woman who complained that all the attractive men in London were gay . |