Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [conj] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Filmer 's neck muscles slowly relaxed , and I realized that for a moment he must have suspected that the scene had been specifically aimed at him . |
| 2 | India in those days ( round about 1963 ) was much in the air and I found that as a background it decidedly fired my imagination . |
| 3 | I wandered as in a dream through the gate and across the road . |
| 4 | I forgot that for a while during the '80s but I 'm back now , ’ Starr said . |
| 5 | I walked as in a nightmare , aware of nothing but the few yards of tarmac ahead and stopping every few yards . |
| 6 | I felt that as a Minister of the Eucharist I am privileged to accompany Our Lord to my fellow pilgrims , particularly those who are sick or bereaved in one way or another . |
| 7 | ‘ I improved because of a lot of practice , ’ said Geoff . |
| 8 | ‘ I was really impressed by what I saw and as a result started learning about magic when I got back to London , ’ he recalls . |
| 9 | Gangs of men were at work trying to rescue the contents of the burning shacks , going from one to another , putting out the fires ; or so I thought till with a shock it came to me that these were no rescuers but incendiaries , that the battle I saw them waging was not with the flames but with the rain . |
| 10 | I say in interesting , if you built that in a model , people would n't believe you . |
| 11 | I remember in my young days — ’ She stopped and for a moment they sat quietly , both thinking of past Christmases when their parents and grandparents had been alive . |
| 12 | She phrased that as a question , out of respect for etiquette . |
| 13 | She knew that as a Deacon she was still an uncommon enough phenomenon in the Church to evoke curiosity . |
| 14 | She knew that in a couple of days ' time Boyd 's promotion would be announced by his company in the newspaper , underneath a studio portrait of him , and she held her head high as she swayed gracefully into the living-room . |
| 15 | In your letter you present the fact that yourself and the Deputy Director have opted for an increase based on the Grade 1 salary and presumably you saw that as a gesture of good will or a concession to our demands . |
| 16 | When her husband began to sing a little , snapping his fingers in rhythm , she smiled and for a moment looked like a young girl again ; but the barman came immediately and reminded them that singing was not permitted . |
| 17 | One RUC officer said : ‘ If you wrote that into a play or novel , people would n't believe it , but it actually happened . |
| 18 | And we found that over a period of , oh about a couple of months , the same people almost used to come round . |
| 19 | We watched that for a bit , then took the first tube of the day round to a friend 's place for a while . |
| 20 | They realised that with a car slowly sinking into the marsh there was not a minute to spare . |
| 21 | They moved as in a dance . |
| 22 | And they converted that into a school infant 's school |
| 23 | They looked like anatomies of death , they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves , they did eat dead carrions , happy where they could find them , yea , and one another soon after , insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves , and if they found a plot of water cress or shamrocks , there they flocked as to a feast for the time , yet not able long to continue therewithal , that in short space there were none almost left , and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast . |
| 24 | But he realised that for a man like Lancaster — trusting and timid — the betrayal would have been much , much worse . |
| 25 | He beamed and in a while went on , ‘ Except for the engineers , the same crew will stay with the train to Vancouver ! ’ |
| 26 | His Lordship reached that decision without enthusiasm because it seemed that as a matter of common sense , notice should be given in such circumstances before criminal proceedings were launched . |
| 27 | It seemed that in a school where he was in such a minority , his language and ethnicity had been defined as particular problems requiring the rather Draconian solution of Statementing . |
| 28 | Wexford waited patiently , for he guessed that for a moment the man was totally unable to speak . |
| 29 | It showed that by a ratio of 2 : 1 the electorate preferred to have my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister in charge of the policy than the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 30 | He discovered that as a girl she had had a passion for Stendhal , so had he , and they talked about Julien Sorel and Tolstoi and Rimbaud . |