Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But having put him in , he rarely consulted him on general policy issues and gave hint little role even in industrial disputes , which were still the traditional concern of the Board of Trade . |
| 2 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 3 | Captaining Jamaica for the second successive season , he not only led them to Red Stripe Cup triumph ( their third in five years ) , but , with the ball , he broke the tournament record with 36 wickets at 11.30 . |
| 4 | In a few moments she had finished it all while Tom All Alone watched her with obvious delight . |
| 5 | At a very early stage the apostle Paul was confronted by opposed parties , the one contending that the freedom of the Spirit so emancipated them from social convention that they could act as they pleased , especially in sexual indulgence , the other with more plausibility holding that the life of the Spirit required renunciation of marriage . |
| 6 | He did n't react , just watched her with deep concern . |
| 7 | Amanullah 's pursuit of his two most cherished objectives , to modernize his country in the shortest possible time and to make it independent of Britain , soon brought him into headlong conflict with Humphrys , whose previous eighteen years in India , mostly among the tribes across the frontier from Afghanistan , had not prepared him to deal with a ruler of such independence of mind . |
| 8 | He just saw you as cheap labour and that was the end of it . |
| 9 | If people genuinely wanted social change from the educational system ( and they did ) , they generally wanted it in familiar guise . |
| 10 | Cos in those days , some of the homes just pushed them into domestic service and that kind of thing . |
| 11 | I pointed out that the ground was once part of Tip Farm and that on rainy days Bob Crudge still used it for artificial insemination . |
| 12 | Along a route taking in the castles of Niddry , Cadzow and Craignethan she rallied sympathizers who still regarded her as rightful queen . |
| 13 | He was not quick to anger and confrontation ; shocks caught up with him slowly and he usually faced them in solitary depression rather than by throwing a scene . |
| 14 | Martinus , a just man , protested to Paulus , who promptly threatened him with instant imprisonment for his interference . |
| 15 | I do n't know if he ever guessed my feelings but he always treated me with great kindness and understanding . |
| 16 | Lydia sat down on the turf which , in its dry springiness , promptly reminded her of pubic hair . |
| 17 | I wanted to on the report you know so always had it with easy reference but |
| 18 | Now we had moved on to bigger and better things , this predictability still stood us in good stead . |
| 19 | Wealthy friends who still held him in high regard as a man , raised money and set the family up in a 500 acre property which they arranged in the names of Mrs. Piper and the children . |
| 20 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow also asked me about competitive tendering and the tendering process . |
| 21 | Just as the first Venetians found that the water-logged islands of their lagoon , far from merely affording them protection from their enemies on land , also provided them with ideal access to the sea and with it immense possibilities of wealth and naval power , so it emerged in the course of human social evolution that the psychological mechanisms which had been necessary in socializing man also proved serviceable for many other enterprises and in time produced the great flowering of human culture which we see around us today . |
| 22 | Obliquely flattering his readers by introducing them to boys near their own age involved in surprising and exciting events , he also invited them to wishful thinking , if not to identification , by emphasising the youth of his heroes and underplaying the responsibility and enforced maturity belonging to midshipmen in the early and mid-teens in reality . |
| 23 | He also told her in great detail what kind of a woman Gina was . |
| 24 | [ One of the other Assistant Solicitors in the department also joined us from private practice ; another came from the Bar . ] |
| 25 | peters also introduced him to small-boat cruising and they made many cruises between Marblehead and the Canadian border . |
| 26 | Seeing the mist that deepened the dark grey of her eyes , the pale translucent cheeks , both so beautiful now in their glowing copper setting , it was all Benedict could do not to snatch her back into the heat of his embrace , and force his way to that intimate deep caress , the thought of which now fired him with passionate yearning . |
| 27 | The reminder , so sharp and painful , in the sudden appearance of that man now threw her into aching grief . |
| 28 | ‘ And there was I imagining that underneath that hostile exterior there was a girl who really held me in high esteem . ’ |
| 29 | As a small boy , I devised my own set of cartoon animals , and they now stood me in good stead . |
| 30 | This initially led him to ceremonial magick and London 's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ( 1898 ) , members of which included W. B. Yeats , Arthur Machen [ qq.v. ] , and its leader , S. L. Mathers ; and to yoga with the former Golden Dawn member Allan Bennett , later Bhikku Anada Metteya , who brought Theravada ( Hinayana ) Buddhism to Great Britain . |