Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been the word " social " that created for her this image , a word judiciously expunged from later versions of the verse . |
| 2 | Something that occurred to me this week . |
| 3 | A bleak thought that occurred to him one night , crossing the Hungerford Bridge on the way back from a check of Cardboard City . |
| 4 | ‘ Now I open tonight 's reading from the master 's great Oliver Twist , the famous scene chosen by Dickens for his own readings and which led to his early death , from the violent emotion that swept over him each time he read this passage . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He came over and trained with us last week and he was looking fit . |
| 6 | It is said that he constructed a tank and poured into it molten gold so that it became one vast molten block . |
| 7 | And he dight himself full gallantly and well , and took with him many knights , both his own and of his kindred and of his friends , and he took also many new arms , and came to Valencia to the King with two hundred of his peers in arms , in festival guise ; and the King went out to meet him , and received him right well , and did him honour ; and at this were all the Counts displeased . |
| 8 | Rodrigo set out upon the road , and took with him twenty knights . |
| 9 | ‘ I remember when Jason first came and auditioned for me one day after school in his school uniform , very hot and perspiring , and a typical teenage schoolboy who had just run to the audition . |
| 10 | For various reasons they were wrong ; but illusion of continuity was easily available because they had at least some of their kinsmen at close quarters , met them and socialized with them each day . |
| 11 | Next day I lunched with Hugh [ Lygon ] and drank with him all afternoon and sallied out with him fighting drunk at tea-time when we drank at the New Reform until dinner . |
| 12 | In the same way that he now helped his wife to dress , and waited upon her all day long , Wilson sought out people to keep her company . |
| 13 | ‘ The only reason I so much as spoke to you last night , ’ he said through his teeth , ‘ was because of my grandmother . ’ |