Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [prep] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marjorie and Heather spent hours poring over cookery-books , which seemed to me a strange occupation for Oxford graduates , especially in the face of wartime rationing ; but perhaps it was a matter of the fox and the grapes , for I myself had not acquired any culinary skill . |
| 2 | I 'm sure your friend will put a good word in for you , ’ which brought from her the sharp retort : ‘ Yes , he will ! |
| 3 | Boswell had a fire in his ‘ most elegant ’ room overlooking the sea , but he did not sleep well because the sea made its wild noises , and the pillows were stuffed with the feathers of ‘ some sea-fowl , which had to me a disagreeable smell ’ . |
| 4 | It passed almost at once and gave place to what seemed to him an assumed and slightly truculent indifference , but it had been there . |
| 5 | He had even provided , as an antagonist to North , a fictional member of the NSC , ‘ Aaron Sykes ’ , whose job it was to give flesh and voice to those invisible and voiceless colleagues who had presumably tried to dissuade North from what he was doing : to appear , as the Laws appeared to Socrates , ‘ humming in his ears ’ , about the offence he would cause to country , friends and laws if he did what seemed to him the right thing . |
| 6 | What seemed to me a golden opportunity came to hand largely through Pearn 's connections with the History department in the University , to which he had now returned . |
| 7 | I went into what seemed to me a Burmese restaurant . |
| 8 | If I got a question wrong , which I did more often than not , he would repeat it in what seemed to me a contemptuous tone until I got it right . |
| 9 | One lunchtime Minton , wearing what seemed to her a hideous sweater knitted for him by his mother , sat opposite her in the school restaurant . |
| 10 | More likely is that she wrote down ( accurately ) the beginning , remembered the sound of the end , and linked them together in what seemed to her a possible sequence . |
| 11 | In other words , rats with hippocampal lesions have difficulty in refraining from punished responses because they can not remember what happened to them the last time that they did whatever it was that led to the punishment . |
| 12 | ‘ See , ’ said Renwick pointing to his balding pate , ‘ that 's what happened to me the last time I did n't stop ! ’ |
| 13 | She left a series of notes in my pigeonhole that started off plaintively : ‘ I 'm very confused by what happened between us the other night . |
| 14 | ‘ What happened between us the other day , after our picnic — ’ his deep voice was suddenly slow and compelling as he steered the boat slowly towards the busy quay at Kalkara ‘ — that seemed … special . |