Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE BOOKS YOU ACTUALLY READ ON HOLIDAY : |
| 2 | And Lisa 's heart brimmed over as , with a look of adoration , Alexander responded with the words she never tired of hearing . |
| 3 | Though it was a thriving concern for several centuries it eventually fell into decline and finally out of existence with the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537 . |
| 4 | The cost in horses and men was heavy , and the feeding of the former a significant outlay , especially when corn prices were high : " Robert Russell , proprietor of the daily fly wagons which set out from London … to Falmouth , feels much pleasure in being able , owing to the blessings derived from the late harvest , to reduce the advances he lately made on carriage . " |
| 5 | The movie , made in 1988 , is a good pointer to what has happened to Allen : the targets he once pricked with flip but divine one-liners — the shrinks , the Life / Death / Weltschmerz question — are no longer a laughing matter as America 's greatest contemporary wit approaches the mid-September of his days . |
| 6 | And I think this is behind I made some adverse comment about the Prime Minister 's comment about the burden of the old — to be fair , I think one of the problems she probably had in mind was the fact not of the immediate peak of elderly people , but the peak in the twenty/twenties where the full impact of the erm pension scheme that we 've got will hit with a considerably older population — can we afford it ? |
| 7 | The suburbs he especially had in mind were the opulent , tree-lined jobs of Victorian England . |
| 8 | But there he was describing the feelings he then had about war : ‘ … |
| 9 | She felt intimidated ; these men were the most powerful in the land , men you only saw on television or in the press . |
| 10 | There is little doubt that the popular newspapers and the police embrace the copycat phenomenon with enthusiasm , so they may be misleading on many occasions with the supposed examples they sometimes put on display . |
| 11 | The Mesozoic ginkgos were a varied and numerous group of plants , but unlike the spruces and pines they slowly declined in variety throughout the Tertiary . |