Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ And to tell my friends to be more careful where they discussed other people 's affairs ! |
2 | It became clear that we needed more time and more study before we could support both Conrad 's ( 1979 ) and Meadow 's ( 1980 ) conclusions that deaf children need the early support of speech-based signing . |
3 | The Church Commissioners , however , had always been reluctant to vest urban churches in the Redundant Churches Fund and made it absolutely clear that they considered All Souls would impose an impossible burden on the resources of the Fund . |
4 | Through the haze of Bell 's which had been the weekend , it had become clear that he had little alternative . |
5 | Nothing is known of his early life , but it is clear that he acquired practical experience of chemistry and engineering . |
6 | Remembering my conversations with him at the end of 1975 and the beginning of 1976 , it was clear that he wanted fresh fields to conquer , that he thought he had more than proved himself as a racing driver and that he thought he could , with no great difficulty , follow a Bruce McLaren , for instance , and make his own way in cars of his own . |
7 | It seems clear that she found some difficulty in arriving at an assessment of her feelings in relation to me . |
8 | Iris winced at this unnecessarily blunt reference to Eddie 's sexuality , having already made it clear that she held similar views to Sybil 's . |
9 | It seemed all wrong that I had horizontal loops across the face of the work . |
10 | He had but three vessels left and despite urgent pleas from his men — now demoralized again , fretful once they realized another ship was gone — to abandon the voyage and sail back to the Guadalquivir , he pressed on north-westwards , passing through scenery of a wild grandeur and beauty he had never known before . |
11 | He waited with roused senses for what would come next ; and what came was so transparent that he had hard work not to laugh , and set out without more ado to take every advantage of a stratagem that would not have fooled a child in arms . |
12 | Well I mean I , I , when I joined in forty nine the , the fire uniform was n't all that much different except they had black helmets instead of yellow , and , and they had rubber boots and they did n't have the leggings we have , and so on now , but the walking-out uniform was the old army battledress died blue , that 's all it was . |
13 | The Six took pains to make it clear that their intention was not to form an exclusive club : Christian Pineau , the French prime minister , was particularly insistent that they hoped other countries , especially Britain , would feel able to join in the initiative . |
14 | But you 'd be wrong if you met six men who live and work on Teesside . |
15 | Her eyes were nearer black than brown and she wore woollen knee stockings ; from a distance she could have been mistaken for a child , of either sex . |
16 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
17 | Thankful that , though her ankle was still painful if she put any weight on it , her foot was n't swollen , Luce put on a pair of yellow flat-heeled sandals and , unable to contain her impatience a moment longer , picked up the crutch and headed down the corridor . |
18 | The morning was damp and I licked some dew from the lawn . |
19 | I was never popular and I had few friends , but such friendships as I made were mostly lasting . |
20 | But we would be even more foolish if we imagined that modernity is neutral territory : it is enemy territory — as the world , for Christians , has always been . |
21 | There was a charming and I thought authentic baroque quality to the musicians ' solos . |
22 | During this period her message became increasingly apocalyptic and she disrupted public meetings and religious gatherings , acquiring a following of several women and arousing the antagonism of the Quaker leaders , who tried unsuccessfully to restrain her . |
23 | High dose corticosteroids were unhelpful and he underwent ileal resection with a 12 month remission . |
24 | The buzz , the uninhibited , excited talking , yes , uninhibited talking , in a district where you were made to feel peculiar if you allowed any expression to cross your face in the street , died as the lights slowly faded . |
25 | I VISITED the top secret Battle of the Atlantic command centre in Rumford Street and was very impressed , but I feel it would be even more interesting if they had dummy figures dressed in naval and wrens ' uniforms and placed in their respective positions . |
26 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
27 | One of my favourite presidents , Theodore Roosevelt , president from the early part of the twentieth century and known as the damned cowboy erm you might be interested to know how people become president erm Theodore Roosevelt was an arch imperialist and got very excited about the er war with Spain er America had a s little brief war with Spain at the end of the nineteenth century erm over the possession of Cuba , and erm in eighteen ninety eight , and this aroused great patriotic feelings in all red blooded Americans and especially in Theodore Roosevelt and er er Roosevelt formed his own company of cavalry called the Rough Riders and erm Roosevelt wore glasses and was asthmatic but he had this group called the Rough Riders , sort of early kind of Clint Eastwood stuff , and erm anyway he g he was engaged in the war with Spain er and there was one wonderful moment in the war Spain in which the Spaniards were at the top of a hill called the San Juan hill er and er Teddy , as he was known , of course he gave his name to the teddy bear , did you know that did you ? |
28 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
29 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
30 | Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago . |