Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not said that he believed her , had only touched her for that fleeting moment , but she knew what she had felt . |
| 2 | Alison regarded me as though I were a dosser who 'd just importuned her for some spare change . |
| 3 | ‘ West Brom will be less apprehensive about the replay , but playing away from home has not presented us with any major phobia . |
| 4 | Rincewind glanced around quickly , in case some leakage of enchantment from the Magician 's Quarter across the river had momentarily transported them to some other place . |
| 5 | It was as if , gasping out his last breath , that battered , bitter and vindictive old man had somehow injected him with some small portion of his own bitter resolve . |
| 6 | It did n't matter in the end , as it sold to dealer David Petrovsky ( underbid by Caldwell ) for $44,000 , who has of yet not discovered it in any photographic reference . |
| 7 | Marie Claire had once commended me on this negative virtue . |
| 8 | For the English kings , on the other hand , war was an attempt to assert historic and feudal rights to Aquitaine , Normandy , and other parts of France , as well as their legal claim to the French crown , which had been unjustly denied them by successive French kings . |
| 9 | And he remembered with satisfaction , because it proved that he was not at fault , that Miriam and Louise had both approached him with some wild tale about Miss Hughes leading their brothers into debauchery and sensuality . |
| 10 | You 've probably locked them in some safe . |
| 11 | He 'd helped her through a bad patch and she 'd been grateful , but she 'd never really considered him in any other light . |
| 12 | ‘ Do you realize that I have n't seen you for three whole days , Flavia ? |
| 13 | Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen . |
| 14 | She does n't know , of course ; I 've never told her of this tiny , precise pleasure of the night . |