Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The danger , as Andrei Gavrilov hints at elsewhere in this issue , is that the large emigration of musicians to the West that has taken place since restrictions were relaxed may mean that Russian musical life will lose those very qualities that not only made it technically of such high standing but that also gave it its unique flavour . |
| 2 | And as the all-too-solid original took a single step out from the doorway he dropped the loop of wire over its head and , like a man straining to start an outboard motor , suddenly hauled it tight for all he was worth . |
| 3 | My probation officer outside told me she 'd try to bring her up , but then she said it was too far and she could n't get the funds , so I only saw her twice in eight months . |
| 4 | He was so starry-eyed when he finally made it bedwards with true love Michelle Pfeiffer , he would n't have noticed if she 'd been wearing Dr Martens . |
| 5 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 6 | Rentokil aims to raise pre-tax profits and earnings per share by at least 20 per cent a year — and easily did it again in 1992 . |
| 7 | He had paid it no attention , for the light still reached it only by reflected glimpses ; but Isambard had lived with it on close terms for fifteen years , and knew it line for line and feature for feature . |
| 8 | Bill Dodd , club captain in the 1930s , was one of those players who always gave his all for ninety minutes . |
| 9 | There were tears on her cheeks and he carefully eased them away with gentle fingers . |
| 10 | People in those worlds probably treated them rather like national papers , too . |
| 11 | We also wrote it especially for this chapter . |
| 12 | His voracious and informed interest in the arts , not only ballet but plays , books , music , painting , also set him apart from most of the other students . |
| 13 | And I think that this kind of contradiction really struck me even as this fifteen year old . |
| 14 | When the clerk returned he saw the letter , glanced at the door , in an attempt to see who had left it , then slotted it neatly into one of the pigeon holes behind him . |
| 15 | Now , for pride , she would not crop it , she would not so much mark the occasion , but instead wore it always inside some sort of covering , hidden away . |
| 16 | ‘ A lot of things brought it on , but I guess Elise Burgin 's mother being killed in a car accident definitely catapulted me further into that stage , ’ said Pam , who saw tennis in a different perspective after her life-long friend 's mother died in the spring of 1989 . |