Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned to watch him leave , experiencing a second shock as she recognised the man who was driving the car that arrived to collect him as one of the pair who had waylaid her in the car park . |
| 2 | I did n't suffer from morning sickness but I 've become an insomniac over the months and had the good fortune ( or so they tell me ) to have a healthy foetus that started kicking me at thirteen weeks . |
| 3 | For Small , getting out the magazine that had absorbed her for two years was the commitment , not this eccentric lurch into the unknown . |
| 4 | For those who survived , the heady talk and dreams , the vision of a global system and of revolutionaries without national allegiances , all that had inspired them before 1917 , must have seemed as remote and irrelevant as childhood . |
| 5 | Mozart wrote music so he could buy himself velvet trousers and Shakespeare got up to write a play every day because he needed to live like the rest of us , ’ he added with the disarming arrogance that had established him as one-third of pop 's most hated team . |
| 6 | At dawn on Friday , John Major came of age , shaking off the shadow of Mrs Thatcher that had dogged him for 16 months . |
| 7 | She has long thick hair and tried drying it with three different dryers . |
| 8 | They were given some money , and told to divide it into two accounts , one ‘ private ’ , one ‘ public ’ . |
| 9 | The tsar was well aware that the legislation left much to be desired and delayed publishing it until 5 March , the first day of Lent : " alarmed by the prospect of riot , " wrote an admittedly hostile contemporary , " he hesitated a long time before choosing a day for promulgating the sham freedom and eventually chose the day when it was least of all expected " . |
| 10 | The decision came after a special tribunal in Peshawar had found Gilani guilty on April 24 of the misappropriation of public funds , and had disqualified him for seven years from a seat in the National Assembly . |
| 11 | Chatichai , who had previously removed three parties from his ruling coalition and had replaced them with two new members , had been under pressure for some time from the military and the media to carry out an extensive reshuffle in order to cleanse his government of allegedly corrupt elements . |
| 12 | Gran had noticed it three evenings ago , when they were getting the breakfast things ready , and had pushed it behind one of the geraniums as if she did n't like the sight of it . |
| 13 | British merchant banks had failed to see the enormous unfulfilled potential in Habitat and tended to regard it as one of those here-today , gone-tomorrow phenomena . |