Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Restored in 1960 for the Temora Aero Club she eventually fell into disuse and was sold to Ray Windred of Dungong , New South Wales , as a basket case . |
| 2 | ‘ Passion 's prisoners , ’ she offered with acid amusement but none of the simple pleasure she usually took in alliteration . |
| 3 | Well my Lord , all we know is that erm when the report was served on the defendant it then came through court they were going to have to call Mr and then last week it was suggested er that er not only did they not agree but that they were going to try to prevent it being admitted in evidence . |
| 4 | She had thin , brittle , permed hair , and , under the blue and white checked overall she always wore for work , her legs were stringy and knotted with varicose veins . |
| 5 | Olive had been expecting so many horrors that hearing the question she almost laughed with relief . |
| 6 | He heard the Direktor calling them back to work again , and he crossed to Ingrid who was nervously studying her score , her lips moving as yet again she went over the part she already knew in minute detail . |
| 7 | ‘ Playing with D'Arcy has been a real education because up until she joined the band I always thought about rock in male terms . |
| 8 | As the toga increased in social importance it also gained in size , though it clearly remained a difficult garment to wear . |
| 9 | I went round to their place again and we had toast and tea with real cow 's milk , not the Handy Brand condensed milk we always had at home . |
| 10 | When I came out on top I immediately looked to starboard for the Pole Star and was rather shocked to find that it was oil the portside and we were obviously heading east , but by careful use of the engines was able to turn through 180° and the navigator gave me a heading after taking a sight from the astro compass . |
| 11 | Wittek suggests that Bayezid I was aware of the criticisms of himself on religious grounds and that he sought investiture as Sultan of Rum , a title he already possessed in fact , from the Abbasid caliph in Cairo because he felt the need for a religious sanction for his regime . |
| 12 | When Dauberval defined what he meant by dances of character he undoubtedly had in mind some easily recognised characters of the commedia dell'arte , whose actors regularly played such roles as the absent-minded doctor or scientist , miser , termagant wife or widow and various clowns such as the sad Pierrot or zany clown . |
| 13 | By the time I left , I 'd beaten him down to about twice the price he probably had in mind . |
| 14 | One good example I recently reviewed in Angler 's Mail was the Toray hook length monofilament from Normark . |
| 15 | After the game I immediately went to hospital , where I was detained overnight . |
| 16 | At six o'clock the next morning she finally fell in front of the door of the workhouse , and the people there took her in . |
| 17 | This is that there was no insolvency , but the testator had given the object he later left under trust as a pledge to a creditor to secure a loan . |
| 18 | By stimulating demand in the world economy it both added to inflation and , on the positive side , helped European industrial output to continue growing even after post-war reconstruction was achieved . |
| 19 | Forever on the move , meeting new faces , constantly in demand socially whenever she was off duty , Liza Tremayne found that there were longer and longer periods between the days when she still suffered black despair over the thought that she would never again see the man she so resembled in character and who had given her , had she known it , more love than he had ever bestowed upon any other woman . |
| 20 | This releases the space they formerly occupied for bedding plants and other summer flowerers . |
| 21 | six times I have returned to that country , demanding the past from the present , flogging my emotions , requiring of them , still , that freshness they once owed to novelty , and from year to year finding in my ageing desires rewards ever less vivid … |
| 22 | Then from his bike he almost fell with fright , |
| 23 | It was in a little book I once got for Christmas called Ghosts and Other Weird Creatures . |
| 24 | But Sally and Peter are nothing if not resourceful , and with the aid of some good friends in the building and design world they soon set to work to transform this town house into a haven of beauty and calm . |
| 25 | To quote the memoirs : ‘ … on Sunday the 4th August 1793 , after having finished the morning duty he always performed in person , of visiting , prescribing for , and superintending the dressing of the wounds of the horses in the infirmary , he sat down to continue his treatise on the outward conformation of the horse , a work he intended for publication : in a short time he informed Mrs. Vial that he felt himself extremely ill complaining of cold to a degree of shivering , attended with a violent headach [ sic ] , and great thirst . |
| 26 | Over the years , the solicitor has slowly lost the prestige he formerly held as family counsellor and preserver of the family property . |
| 27 | with Argyll 's management and substantial experience in the food and drink markets , both nationally and internationally , we can restore Distillers to the pre-eminent position it once occupied at home and abroad , and that we have the opportunity to build Distillers and Argyll into Scotland 's greatest company … based in Edinburgh and directed from there . |
| 28 | The one time I ever cried in school was when he blamed me with a severity that seemed to hurt him … . |
| 29 | Ken and I both went to music lessons and the first interest I ever had in music was the teacher at the school . |
| 30 | The extremism I once heard in soul has been evened out . |