Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Studies of social mobility , of schools , of work , of leisure , of youth culture , even of the family , either ignored women or saw them only through male eyes . |
| 2 | It it might be a help to him to have little local groups that helped him out with these things . |
| 3 | It had to be Travis , and that spurred her on to reckless speed , putting too much weight on her much tried ankle , until it could only do one thing — collapse under her . |
| 4 | She knew what that could mean , when the labourer was as young and inexperienced as he , and she looked him over again carefully for the signs of his servitude , ignoring the forbidding stare that warned her off from probing . |
| 5 | Although he bought Jenny a £2,000 diamond engagement ring and happily re-settled in his Brentford mansion , his scoring prowess deserted him after a vicious tackle by Stoke 's notorious Chris Kamara left McAvennie with a broken leg , an injury that kept him out of first team football for months . |
| 6 | Likeably laid-back and a philosophic kind of personality , Hastings currently has a crucial priority — recovery from back damage that kept him out of that Second Australian Test . |
| 7 | But Reid 's fury was outweighed by his concern over Paul Lake , who was carried off after seven minutes with what appeared to be a recurrence of the knee injury that kept him out for two years . |
| 8 | Another Harlequin , Everton Davis , has been seeking a second opinion on the knee injury that forced him out of last month 's England training session . |
| 9 | with this film it will be , you know , compulsory , you wo n't be able to make that choice , erm and the other one , the other thing that struck me just from one of the particular extracts of , of people standing on top of this cliff , erm is , is the way that the importance of , in something like a film where it 's , you know , it 's done for good , you know the importance of having an actual creative writer |
| 10 | Something that struck me personally at this period was that he had a most strange and cultivated sense of humour . |
| 11 | What if the rain increased and they were trapped underground by a flood that washed them away down one of those awful little squeezes ? |
| 12 | But he put up no defence ; he simply raised his hands and laid them lightly on Gentle 's shoulders . |
| 13 | It was long since Adam had thought of him so , and he gathered the warmth of their recollection to him as gratefully as if he had salved one bleached and solitary bone of the beloved right hand out of the Severn , and laid it back in holy ground . |
| 14 | We noted the omission of any mention of meat and asked her particularly about this , as there have been so many debates among anthropologists in recent years as to the origins of hunting and meat-eating . |
| 15 | ‘ I cut a picture of a model in a swimsuit out of Vogue and posted it back to one man . |
| 16 | The candlelight had taken his cheap suit and made it over in some priceless fabric . |
| 17 | But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave . |
| 18 | Hopefully , er I thought we , we played very very well at Port Vale last week and passed it around with three men in the middle of the park . |
| 19 | Any way that was it and you st and you f forked them all round and you after it was er up you was put up to do the tramping round and round and you Every forkful you took it and saw that it was laid down and tramped it round like this , round and round and round and then the next one , till it was up . |
| 20 | He released her hands , and pinned her instead with one hard leg as he drew down the straps of her swimsuit , uncovering her full high breasts to his view . |
| 21 | He came through the door and he backed Cati against the rough wall of the hideout and rammed his pelvis against her stomach and pinned her down with one hand flat against her chest and with the other drew his belt through the loops of his soldier 's jacket and slashed her across the face with the buckle doubled against the leather . |
| 22 | First time I went to Norwich alone , he come up to school and got me out at half past nine in the morning . |
| 23 | His score was later duplicated by Carl Watts ( Hawkstone ) , who notched five birdies and got it back in 31 . |
| 24 | about five grand at one stage and got it down to three and half , and then he got to six hundred and eighty and they went to court |
| 25 | Half a dozen guards hurtled through it , spread out and flung themselves down on one knee . |
| 26 | and caught them out with some incisive breaks . |
| 27 | And then inside building we completely demolished inside , just sort of left the retaining walls and built it up from fourteen feet below the ground to five storeys , high , itself . |
| 28 | Hands gripped her shoulders and moved her gently to one side . |
| 29 | Badoglio lost no time in advancing on the capital , Addis Ababa — from which the Emperor , Haile Selassie , had already fled to Britain — and entered it triumphantly on 5 May 1936 . |
| 30 | She took one of my mother 's gingham breakfast napkins from a drawer and wrung it out in cold water . |