Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked disappointed , so Toby had obviously disarmed her with his usual charm , and had probably promised some expenses , too . |
| 2 | Carole Swan has just rung me from her lovely home to tell me what happened last night in the Hotel … ’ |
| 3 | She had not asked me of my previous experiences . |
| 4 | Even if he 'd already identified me as his deadly rival , at that point it did n't have much relevance . ’ |
| 5 | I have already mentioned it to my American contacts , and received assurances … ’ |
| 6 | Poor-sighted as they were , they caught the brilliant light of the jewel , but you had mistakenly put it on your left hand , whereas Lady Eleanor always wore the ring on the right . |
| 7 | Keith Parker , manager of Harpers Sports Centre , where Joanna was a fitness consultant , said her boyfriend had often warned her about her personal safety after dark . |
| 8 | The sudden tenseness of his jaw suggested that discretion would have been the better part of valour , and so it should have been , if he had n't taunted her about her sexual uncertainty . |
| 9 | At least he had n't interrogated her in his awful ‘ Georg ’ way . |
| 10 | He would not have liked to guess her age , had never seen her in anything other than half-light , and knew nothing about her beyond the fact that she came from a village to the north which she had told him , stood in the shadow of the pyramid of Saqqara . |
| 11 | And he seemed to be pretending that he had never touched her with his hot , wet mouth , anyway . |