Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet every six months or so he found another excuse to get in touch with her . |
| 2 | Were were would you suggest that they have a lot of unresolved feelings about that , or maybe they had emotional scars because no-one was there to give them the kind of hope that might be available now ? |
| 3 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 4 | Because when you were trained in those days you only had two children or otherwise you had another nanny if you had more . |
| 5 | The newly styled firm of G. & J. Cary continued at 86 St James 's Street until 1850 , although apparently it ceased cartographic publication c .1846 . |
| 6 | Corbett could have sworn that momentarily he glimpsed another figure , shadow-like , but fled on . |
| 7 | This was the Preface to a selection of the poems , which Leavis was to handle roughly , as he felt that Eliot had no business to be praising Tennyson , any more than later he had any business to be endorsing Kipling . |
| 8 | Although originally we demanded experienced crews , many actually started their operations with PFF . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , he felt that intellectually he understood both emotions better than his friend . |
| 10 | stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that . |
| 11 | Sergeant Dixon ( stripes newly stitched ) was also enjoying himself , although initially he had serious doubts about whether he — or anyone else , for that matter — could successfully handle his assignment in the ridiculously short period of the three or four hours which Morse had asserted as ‘ ample ’ . |
| 12 | Er , and eventually they took that tune from a melody from a Haydn 's string quartet . |
| 13 | She prayed , and took up vegetarianism , more as an extra religion than as part of the war effort ; after a while she made herself go back to the hospital , and eventually she found Higher Mathematics . |
| 14 | I stood alone on the beach next to the elaborate italics of Oliver ( the others had done capitals , of course ) , and I looked up towards the camera , and Stuart shouted ‘ Cheese ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Gorgonzola ! ’ and Stu shouted ‘ Camembert ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Dolcelatte ! ’ and suddenly I had this crying fit . |
| 15 | And suddenly she felt fierce anger flare up inside her at the way he continually misjudged and denied her and seemed to reject every good and decent thing about her . |
| 16 | In Scotland , Members of Parliament from both sides of the House and local government employees and councillors stupidly said that they would continue with the revaluation , and so we had five-year revaluations until 1985 . |
| 17 | That is obviously something which we 've just got to keep topping up but it was recognised by the fathers that will there was we needed to be helped to train to sell and so we needed that training er to get us get us going so to speak , there were no natural salesmen amongst departments . |
| 18 | And so they made two provisions which make the situation rather different . |
| 19 | And so he asked this girl Jane and , and then he asked me and erm and er had I sat down and thought about it I could have said well er what I thought , you know , the correct way er but I thought well there 's correct and there 's correct and I think the right way is to write to it and to say yes thanks |
| 20 | Pitt-Rivers was well aware that excavation destroys evidence as it uncovers it , and so he kept meticulous records . |
| 21 | Then indeed , after a long time , Childebert considered what ought to be added , and he instituted from 78 to 83 , which he is known to have imposed worthily , and so he transmitted these writings to his brother Chlothar . |
| 22 | A shepherd can never be sure at what hour he 'll be done for the day , but the priest 's man leaves Upton as soon as Vespers is over , and so he did this time . |
| 23 | But I always wanted to travel , and so I made several voyages as a ship 's doctor . |
| 24 | I was lucky Nick and she was pretty Ellen , and so I ordered another bottle of the sticky white wine and we let our dreams take wings . |
| 25 | I also built myself a second house there , and so I had two homes . |
| 26 | Frustratingly , however , the IPG was unable to view these publications in advance and so it had little idea as to how useful they would be . |
| 27 | Theatre , in past centuries , might have counted as a mass medium : it was an effective way of spreading ideas , and so it suffered official censorship ( not abolished until the 1960s ) . |
| 28 | " His hair has been better since he 's been with Sarah Brightman , " confides one long-term associate , " and perhaps he developed more ofa sense of humour . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , Benelux did advance further than other proposals for economic union , such as that toyed at in 1945 and again in 1948 by France and Italy , and perhaps it offered valuable lessons that could be learnt by future attempts in the same direction . |
| 30 | If only they had some grenades of the gas or choke or knockout variety ! |