Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so I began to have erotic daydreams . |
| 2 | ‘ When I took over the club from Connelly I agreed to give old Giuseppe there a job , ’ he explained . |
| 3 | Apparently she had had heavy thighs all her life and still can not get used to her new shape . |
| 4 | So we had to make radical changes . |
| 5 | Still , it appeared her advent had summoned a little luck into his life , for suddenly they began to discover plentiful growths of grass potatoes , forest leeks and turtle-berries , a welcome change from the stringy little rabbits and bitter roots they had eaten until then . |
| 6 | They live in the past , believing that if only they had had loving parents , or if only little sister had n't been born , or if only they had n't married so-and-so , then everything would be fine . |
| 7 | So they needed to invent negative numbers . |
| 8 | So they tended to have chronic balance of payments surpluses , which stoked up inflationary pressure by maintaining high demand for goods . |
| 9 | Cross-sectionally they had to show high scores for schizophrenic symptomatology on standard psychiatric ratings , and retrospective measurement of treatment resistance was carried out using case histories to look at past failure on different neuroleptic regimes . |
| 10 | Emily , swimming vigorously , came to assist her , and together they managed to reach shallow water , where Gwendolen promptly denied she had been in danger . |
| 11 | Apparently he tried typing old tips from pre-Corky days , but they did n't work properly . |
| 12 | ‘ He should have been the best horse I ever had , if only he 'd had decent health ! ’ from owner David Broome , this was quite some testimonial to the abilities of the brilliant grey show-jumper , Phoenix Park . |
| 13 | In his first Report to the Governors , Daniels noted that it was difficult to teach three languages , and so he had made German alternative to Latin in the Upper School , and French alternative in the Lower . |
| 14 | So he had worn scruffy jeans and a Texas University T-shirt to his Downing Street breakfast . |
| 15 | If its policy seemed more or less radical at different times it was n't necessarily changing its view of land reform , but it was keeping its final goal of socialism in sight so it had to make short term expediencies . |
| 16 | Tonight she had come full circle — from merely suspecting Luke 's motives to hearing him finally admit them . |
| 17 | Enthusiasm should not he allowed to overrule common sense : beyond the point of return , the cave continues for a further half — mile , dropping in pitches to a depth of 250 feet . |
| 18 | Already it had made great play of how it had saved certain famous churches from its own bulldozers by moving them out of the path of destruction . |
| 19 | I thought I 'd keep that , if ever I wanted to go fancy dress or something it 's ever so pretty on ! |
| 20 | But gradually I began to write occasional pieces for newspapers . |
| 21 | Off I went to resume normal existence and my first priority , since it was now nearly nine o'clock and I was due to meet Jack Mason at a quarter to ten , was breakfast . |
| 22 | And our sister paper the Sunday Mirror revealed yesterday she had given 37-year-old Bryan a room there . |
| 23 | Swazi police said yesterday they had seized illegal drugs worth more than $4.3 million , the biggest haul ever made in this tiny southern African kingdom . |
| 24 | Councillors on the social services committee said yesterday they needed to know full details of the case , but that the law required a child 's best interests be put first . |
| 25 | A MAN who successfully traced a forces pal through the columns of The Northern Echo said yesterday it had brought bad news . |
| 26 | He stepped back , pausing to think , but the more he tried to invent reasonable explanations , the more he came back to the obvious truth : someone had put out the light and locked him in . |
| 27 | A lot of the jokes tended to go straight over his head , but there was always some good stuff about the management and more than once he 'd noticed senior people leaving with red faces before it ended . |
| 28 | But our Key Person policy compensated us , which kept our backers and creditors happy , and eventually we managed to recruit new people , reorganise and get back on the rails again . ’ |
| 29 | But also he had imbibed long years of his wife 's punctuality and orderliness . |
| 30 | I said who you want back I said look terrible Rottweiler twins ? |