Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not once had any man ever made her so mad … or roused her to such passion , a tiny treacherous voice whispered inside her head . |
| 2 | ‘ Pork-pie ’ trilbies came into prominence ( again ) in the short-hair phase , faded & reasserted themselves in early smoothie . |
| 3 | Whether the coffin-maker produced a bespoke outer case or took one from existing stock is not known , though logic argues in favour of the latter . |
| 4 | Or rubbed it on each other , rather . |
| 5 | Having for years either aped Hollywood or presented us with cheery Cockney families braving the Blitz , a whole slew of films came along ( A Taste Of Honey , Saturday Night And Sunday Morning , etc ) that simultaneously both oddly dissected and glorified the northern working class experience of the early '60s . |
| 6 | Attendance , indeed , would not have cost Britain anything or compromised it in any way , since unlike the meeting called to consider the ECSC , participants at Messina were not required to accept the principle of supranationalism in advance . |
| 7 | And all of the family starting to watch the boy more closely as he sailed or forced himself through one limit after the other — a talent , it was beginning to seem , in every pocket . |
| 8 | The few that remained squatted out in the open or tucked themselves into tiny holes , often with their hindquarters clearly visible . |
| 9 | Alice gratefully laughed with her , feeling privileged and special in this intimacy with Pat that admitted her into important conspiracy . |
| 10 | A more fundamental difficulty with the new examination is contained in the very principle that made it at first sight so attractive — its applicability to the full ability range . |
| 11 | I scrambled up to find a rather nervous photographer who had not enjoyed the path that led him to that spot . |
| 12 | I want to take you through the thinking that led me to that conclusion , and then to concentrate on one of the keys to securing that future — the whole question of advancing the cause of children 's books . |
| 13 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 14 | It was drink that got me into this mess . |
| 15 | I know it was only the extra weight of the Cross that got me up that hill . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's over-consumption that got us into this mess in the first place , ’ says Julia Langer . |
| 17 | It 's your thinking that got you into this place ! ’ |
| 18 | However , having considered the arguments , Lord Bingham said that it was not a subject that lent itself to absolute rules . |
| 19 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 20 | In America small town-dumps have been closed , or sold by the cities that owned them to private operators . |
| 21 | I also knew the leaves of some trees , plants or grasses that provided us with instant cures for bee stings or bites from centipedes or scorpions . |
| 22 | It stood , open and scoured , to breathe the air that purified it from any hint of sour milk . |
| 23 | Nature , that framed us of four elements , |
| 24 | Camberwell did not have a major industry that distinguished it from other London districts , but it offered sufficient variety of employment to engage a majority of the workforce ; other breadwinners did not have to go far to reach central London . |
| 25 | But it was not only the international flavour of Penguin New Writing that distinguished it from other symposia of this kind ; Lehmann also had an active interest in the visual arts , and in particular promoted the neo-romantics . |
| 26 | Today we can admire the determination that drove him across dangerous seas to find the ‘ New World ’ . |
| 27 | Then the world seemed to be going round and he was falling down and someone was running from a distance , one of the Keepers , in a grey uniform and with a fat pale face that filled him with such fear that he began to cry out in Hebrew words that he had forgotten he knew . |
| 28 | She 'd had a wondrous time with another man , a time that filled her with remembered textures and sensations , that would have left her smiling now if Parr had not become so damned intrusive . |
| 29 | The IM reached for the telephone that linked him by direct line to Bacton . |
| 30 | Building on the TV success that rocketed her to overnight fame , she is set to make TWO movies and is launching a promising pop career . |