Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pron] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fael-Inis told him very gently and very nicely , but you ca n't expect him to be other than quite dreadfully upset , can you ? |
| 2 | He said huskily , ‘ Let me , McAllister , ’ and began to unbutton her blouse , ‘ I want to stroke you , McAllister , and not your clothes , ’ and she made no effort to stop him , and when he bent his head to kiss the breasts he had fondled with his hands the cry which she gave was one of pleasure , not fear , for now it was Dr Neil loving her so carefully that the flood of pleasure was almost on her from that alone . |
| 3 | Ellen forgot herself so far as to sit down plump on the bed . |
| 4 | Travis knew it as well as she did . |
| 5 | I suppose you could say David had it so often that it be nice for him to get it . |
| 6 | Seldom before have England needed him so badly as they go into tomorrow 's third Test in Bombay already beaten 2-0 in the series by India . |
| 7 | Maggie saw him more clearly as he stepped forward . |
| 8 | Mrs Geary understood it quite well and disagreed with it often . |
| 9 | Léonie held herself straight so that no one should know her secret . |
| 10 | Not only was the CEGB pursuing it too slowly but it had underestimated the potential , he argued . |
| 11 | ‘ Faye needs someone as soon as possible now , so perhaps I 'd better square it with the hospital for you . |
| 12 | It was so much the sort of remark one could only make to a girl friend , but Rupert took it very nicely and said with only slightly forced heartiness , ‘ Jolly good , and it 's an excuse for me to have a better meal than usual , too . |
| 13 | These rolls were a speciality of Baden , and the people of Zurich liked them so much that a special train used to leave Baden early every morning so that they were in Zurich fresh and in time for breakfast . |
| 14 | Mr thank you very much if you wait there . |
| 15 | Sam did it much faster and much better . |
| 16 | Tabitha liked it well enough as it was , though she remembered better days , not so many years ago , when the jazz bands in the bodegas had been almost loud enough to drown the furious rattle of the old spice prospectors playing mah-jongg . |
| 17 | Gravellier made it as far as the door . |
| 18 | It was then that Fat Watt regarded them most sullenly as though their nearness was a threat . |
| 19 | But Duvall smacked it dismissively aside and jabbed two steel-hard fingers at the base of Jimmy 's throat with a cold and precise disdain . |
| 20 | He stayed out of the way as much as he could , and Sandy mentioned him as infrequently as possible . |
| 21 | ‘ God meeting us no longer as ‘ Thou ’ , but also disguised in the ‘ It ’ ; so in the last resort my question is how we are to find the ‘ Thou ’ in this ‘ It , ’ ( i.e. , fate ) . |
| 22 | Thérèse enclosed them once more and held on . |
| 23 | Advent signals values : that God loved us so much that he was willing to enter upon an adventure that cost him the death of his Son . |
| 24 | By canne , which could mean ‘ cane ’ in the English senses of a hollow reed or a light walking-stick , Antoine implies something rather long unless he uses the word wholly jokingly . |
| 25 | The liverpool supporters , although a tadge irritated by all these cheering Yorkshiremen took it very well and gave as good as they got when they equalised . |
| 26 | He walked swiftly beside the trolley as they wheeled it towards the Theatre lifts , and Kath told him as rapidly as she could what they had established . |
| 27 | The young man named Lawrence put her aside kindly but firmly , and took over in her place , drawing Gus 's left arm about his shoulders . |
| 28 | This opens the possibility ( and one acknowledged in conversation ) that communication could involve structured messages , perhaps even structure of the sort producing infinite generative capacity , without the creatures ever having passed the ‘ Gricean hump ’ that Bennett put them past even before occasion meaning had made its evolutionary debut . |
| 29 | Father Kleinsorge told them as cheerfully as he could , ‘ There 's a doctor at the entrance to the park . |
| 30 | ‘ Just go back to Lévy tomorrow and sell the other vase , ’ Jean-Claude told me rather conspiratorially when Félix had gone to his bucket . |