Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised that almost the instant she left me . ’ |
| 2 | The bridge humbucker has been designed to give a very hot response indeed , and I found that even the centre single coil kicked the amp quite nicely . |
| 3 | When I came back to Scotland I found that generally the standard of club rugby was lower . ’ |
| 4 | Before the war began , listening to reminiscences of those who had experienced the last war and sensing their dread , I imagined that once a war had started , no one would ever be happy again . |
| 5 | I showed that instead the symmetry would have broken everywhere at the same time , rather than just inside bubbles . |
| 6 | So , when at last I came to a small village with a large church , I decided that perhaps the priest might be the best person to tell me where these prehistoric pagans buried their dead . |
| 7 | So it was a way of getting out and I knew that eventually the council would have to rehouse me . |
| 8 | I feared that even an emergency home call might go unheeded . |
| 9 | I thought that presumably the bill was still divided proportionately between the countries . |
| 10 | No , I thought that perhaps a stroll down Unter den Linden — such memories for me there — and then I have another idea . |
| 11 | But then I thought that perhaps an accident was awaiting me or one of my relatives . |
| 12 | She entertained but fleetingly the notion of ringing the Bishop . |
| 13 | One of the girls , today , she wasn' say she was n't sure , but she was saying that she heard that perhaps the exam structure you have to incorporate all three phases of the |
| 14 | She fancied that somehow the blend of sophistication and cosiness that was Sophie would be able , if not to help ( how could she ? ) , to understand a little . |
| 15 | She implied that only a fool could allow what was known as ‘ love ’ to enter into consideration in the matter . |
| 16 | Her wings might be old and her talons blunt but strangely her illness had sharpened her mind even more and she knew that somehow a chance would come . |
| 17 | But in a short while , once he was gone from the house , she 'd have to go upstairs and read to her daughter and she knew that already the child was sensitive to her feelings : she would say , ‘ You sad , Mammy ? ’ or ‘ You vexed with me , Mammy ? ’ |
| 18 | Perhaps she did or perhaps the mine is a gathering-together of memories — of being shut in , starved of air , of light , of freedom of mind and body . |
| 19 | She gave that only a moment 's thought . |
| 20 | Giving in to the inevitable , and until she had found out the truth she had as yet no quarrel with his mother , Ellie relaxed her rigid stance . |
| 21 | She said , she said and then the thing ca came down and this get up and walk out I said go back and get them and get Joe to take them . |
| 22 | ‘ Parts of the Chambers Street building are 130 years-old and we found that virtually no maintenance had been carried out . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , in our previous study performed in 36 symptomatic patients , we showed that neither the concentration of gastric platelet activating factor output or the content of platelet activating factor in the gastric mucosa were significantly related to the inflammatory cell infiltration in the gastric mucosa . |
| 24 | We observed that sometimes a sentiment attributed to a powerful senior member of the county bureaucracy was accepted as sufficient grounds for considering a school more sympathetically ( or more critically ) than would otherwise be the case . |
| 25 | When Peter Townsend and his army of researchers monitored low incomes in the sixties and seventies for their massive study , Poverty in the United Kingdom ( Penguin , 1982 ) , they found that about a quarter of the unemployed were drawing supplementary benefit . |
| 26 | The Council suggested the need for independent ‘ unified ’ research to ascertain the size and scope of the heroin problem , as they feared that otherwise a number of ‘ in-house ’ research papers would be produced which would lack coordination and the necessary overview . |
| 27 | Snip , snip , snip they went and soon the bird had a beak and a neck . |
| 28 | If the officers could tell us that why did n't they tell the controlling labour group , I 'm sure they did and then the question is why did n't you listen to them . |
| 29 | They left after about an hour , without seeing Koffigoh , who denounced their actions in a broadcast later in the day . |
| 30 | He argued that even the procurement of raw materials from abroad should be subject to government control . |