Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |
| 2 | There was about a grand in the old account — my dad 's money came by standing order — but I would n't use it , and what I regarded as my own finances were judging from the tone of the bank 's increasingly frequent letters somewhere in the deep infrared and in serious danger of vanishing from the electromagnetic spectrum altogether . |
| 3 | I watched as my dear man made his way across the tarmac to the small Doha airport . |
| 4 | I watched as my veiled friends chatted busily to each other or rose to greet some relative , touching burgah to burgah , then fluttered down again like so many birds of paradise . |
| 5 | I caught a glimpse of her , eyes red with fury , and I wondered if my last hour had come , but Bill , the man who was on guard , managed to push her back with the aid of a large plank , and she soon quietened down when we passed her babies back . ’ |
| 6 | I wondered if our own troops in distant countries behaved in this way . |
| 7 | She tensed ; very softy he blew into her ear , until she quivered as his warm breath passed through her . |
| 8 | She winced as her bad arm was stretched . |
| 9 | She served as its honorary secretary and then as chairman . |
| 10 | She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her . |
| 11 | She laughed as his warm mouth against hers told her exactly what he had in mind ! |
| 12 | She purred as his greasy fingers probed between her thighs , and she parted her legs in open invitation . |
| 13 | A friend of mine realized how much cellulite she had when her little girl spotted her sitting on the loo , bare flesh displayed . |
| 14 | ‘ I wonder what happened to men , ’ she said as her second vodka sank lower in the glass . |
| 15 | But anything which seemed to offer a challenge to what they regarded as their rightful status was certain to cause resentment . |
| 16 | My view was that people wanted what they regarded as their own pension and my aim was to ensure an expansion in provision . |
| 17 | How the hell do you think they felt when their darling Hilary was too busy to go out for her brother 's wedding ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Maggie ! ’ he whispered as his eager lips sought hers . |
| 19 | THE father of an alleged rape victim told a jury yesterday of the shock he experienced when his 22-year-old daughter roused him in the middle of the night . |
| 20 | What he overheard provided his first insight into the intimate sentiments of mature Fists who had been warriors for over seventy years — as the seven long-service studs on the craggy , crewcut forehead of each star-knight signified . |
| 21 | In an 1879 article , the eminent lawyer , journalist and essayist Walter Bagehot agreed that any attempt by women to escape what he regarded as their biological destiny was anti-evolutionary . |
| 22 | There , at Portmore , Taylor completed what he regarded as his greatest work , Ductor Dubitantium , or The Rule of Conscience in all her General Measures , Serving as a Great Instrument for the Determination of Consciences , This work is a manual of casuistry which occupies over 1300 pages of close print . |
| 23 | If Britain wished to retain some semblance of leadership in Europe or even to maintain what it regarded as its special position there vis-à-vis the United States , some new arrangement would have to be found . |
| 24 | The Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) held on Dec. 14-16 what it described as its 40th congress , and the second since the change of name from Bulgarian Communist Party in April 1990 . |
| 25 | No doubt it was very vexatious to Lanfranc , especially since he doubted whether their so-called saints deserved this title at all . |
| 26 | He winced when his wounded arm was touched . |
| 27 | It adopted as its national anthem the former anthem of South Yemen , and as its flag the horizontal stripes of red , white and black , as used formerly by North Yemen , but without the green star in the centre . |
| 28 | He worked as its honorary secretary until its demise in 1919 when , according to his own view in his Seventy Years among Savages ( 1921 ) , ‘ It ended as it began in its character of Forlorn Hope ; we had the good will of the free-lances , not of the public or the professors . ’ |
| 29 | He chose as his novel substances the class of compounds on which he had worked 20 years earlier when he was a Ph.D . |
| 30 | She smiled trustingly at him and his heart melted the way it did when his small nieces slipped their hands into his when he took them out . |