Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in the main town , we explored twisting alleys which eventually led us to the old Frankish quarter . |
| 2 | The rebuilding of the town of Warwick after the fire presumably provided him with an initial opportunity , and he was later responsible for a further group of churches and other public buildings ; but the predominant element in his practice was the building of country houses for the midlands gentry . |
| 3 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |
| 4 | She was not there and after running frantically around the garden he eventually found her beside the old hanging tree at the bottom of the path . |
| 5 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |
| 6 | Ribble 's failure to provide the service paid for will have caused inconvenience , and distress to elderly residents of Scorton and perhaps involved them in the extra cost of missed appointments or expensive taxi fares . |
| 7 | The former England batsman also claimed that Donald was not a one-day cricketer and that Warwickshire only used him with the new ball in such games . |
| 8 | Our clothes , living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Innocent of intrigue , Meredith suddenly discovered it in the dark depths of Lucenzo Salviati 's eyes . |
| 11 | And Burrows senselessly followed him after a late challenge on Khlestov . |
| 12 | Um well we did n't know what to do with the money , so we basically gambled it on the Grand National . |
| 13 | Temple was sincere in his desire to preserve native society from too sudden change : he enjoyed its idiosyncrasies , respected its vitality , and greatly loved it as an unkempt garden in which the product of a more ordered civilization might find repose . |
| 14 | The king personally rewarded him with the Victorian Order , fourth class , but broke off relations when the disgruntled recipient of the decoration returned it the following day . |
| 15 | But then he suddenly dumped me for no apparent reason and left me broken-hearted . |
| 16 | To the distress of his family he rejected the Unitarian name in later life but not the ministerial title , though others , as he admits , ‘ only saw him as a Unitarian minister ’ . |
| 17 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 18 | She only did it as a temporary measures just |
| 19 | Progressives and reformers never captured the movies ; they merely influenced them in a particular direction , a direction that the producers would appear to be following closely whereas in fact they were really using it for their own ends . |
| 20 | ‘ The sessions not only pointed me in the right direction for obtaining information , they taught me a lot about the sort of questions I should be asking . ’ |
| 21 | It obviously recognized him as the only being that had ever showed it kindness . |
| 22 | Manager Goodman quickly spotted that Harry 's lack of inches ( he only stood 5ft 6in ) were something of a handicap when playing down the middle in Second Division football and successfully transferred him to the outside-right spot . |
| 23 | Her betrothed leapt back to his feet , his hand going to the knife at his belt , but Cranston just dismissed him with a contemptuous flicker of his eyes . |
| 24 | The Regional Health Authority tonight described it as a tragic story . |
| 25 | I think you just caught him at a bad moment . |
| 26 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 27 | This time Roman said nothing , just observed her with a brooding air of deliberation , for so long that she felt quite faint with nervous tension . |
| 28 | His forcefulness , intelligence and personality soon established him as a national leader . |
| 29 | No problem though for Tony he just hit it to the other side . |
| 30 | He pointed up the fairway and said : ‘ Just hit it at the wee stone marker . ’ |