Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Alice or Bert filled it with hot water and it leaked causing injury , would either of them have an action ? |
| 2 | Where Ann wrote it for last year , for my ri |
| 3 | At last she reached Broom House and rushed into the surgery , where Helen greeted her with evident relief . |
| 4 | Where Barrie tortured himself with Victorian fears about his own adult sexuality , Spielberg flagellates himself for Sixties selfishness and Eighties careerism ( Spielberg himself is one of the baby-boom generation , and divorced ) . |
| 5 | They did not stay long , because her drowsiness began to increase , and a short time later they left to go in search of Women 's Surgical , where Stella greeted them with pleased surprise . |
| 6 | It was in the boot-and-brushing room that Nicandra found her at last — after a search through the larders , the dairy , and the empty laundry , its warm steam now subsided into a vaporous chill . |
| 7 | And that Ivor switched it for another , less valuable guinea ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It was to have children that Allah put her on this earth . |
| 9 | The trouble with Cabinet was not that Harold ran it through little cabals , but that there was no focal point of decision-making at all . |
| 10 | His report , an Essay on Convict Discipline ( 1838 ) , was so condemnatory of official policy that Franklin dismissed him in 1838 . |
| 11 | Born in St Petersburg , Iacovleff was associated with Bakst and Diaghilev before moving to Paris where such was his repute that Sargent described him as one of the greatest living draftsmen . |
| 12 | Nobody dared to claim that Dukakis represented anything in particular or that he could reliably arouse anything more than a snore , but that was not the point . |
| 13 | The only difference was that Francis did it with more charm . |
| 14 | Merlin was soon known for his fantastic mechanical automata , and it is not inconceivable that Tylney met him at one of the many masquerades then all the rage in London . |
| 15 | The absence of Neil Lenham ( how many times have I written that , I wonder ? ) handed Keith Greenfield a more regular opportunity to open , one this Brighton beau has grabbed enthusiastically , twice registering 55-overs bests , narrowly missing a Sunday best and forming such a productive partnership with Jamie Hall that Smith found himself at first drop for the initial one-dayers . |
| 16 | Good religion could be good politics , good politics could require good religion , and there can be no question that Cnut threw himself into certain aspects of his role with zest . |
| 17 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 18 | And Lisa hated herself for that . |
| 19 | It was a statement of fact rather than the opening shot in an argument and Trent accepted it as such . |
| 20 | They were gradually weaned off the drugs and Valnet treated them with internal doses of essential oils instead . |
| 21 | She was nineteen , the age Maria had been when she had first felt the power of Luke 's attraction , and Maria regarded her with ironic envy , wishing she could have reacted as insouciantly , her awe and admiration as impersonal as Penny 's , Luke confined to some remote pedestal along with other out-of-reach heroes , contact undreamed-of . |
| 22 | Pollensa and Alcudia were in the north of the island and Fernando owned nothing in that region . |
| 23 | It was already deep in debt , after repeated maladministration and corruption amongst its earlier inmates , and Wolsey seized it in 1525 . |
| 24 | She had five children , and her own independent income , and Creevey married her in 1802 . |
| 25 | Fairbrother was shuffling reluctantly out of the stone doorway as he returned , and Richard greeted him with sarcastic cheerfulness . |
| 26 | The notices were poor and Ken cocooned himself in one of those invisible cloaks that he believed protected him from any contact with the outside world . |
| 27 | ‘ Ice ? ’ he enquired , as he reached for a glass and Shiona seated herself in one of the armchairs . |
| 28 | In particular , the powerful Beni-Gomez family schemed continually against Rodrigo until Alfonso banished him in 1081 . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 30 | Sweden more than doubled its crop area between 1840 and 1880 , Italy and Denmark expanded it by more than half , Russia , Germany and Hungary by about a third . |