Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicandra tried to think of something pleasing to say : " Maman , do you think the Little Lord Jesus heard me ? " she came out with at last . |
| 2 | Ellen planned to return to her tiny apartment in the town where she kept her precious books and where , on an old manual typewriter , she wrote what she called her ‘ five-finger exercises ’ , which she would never let anyone read . |
| 3 | As soon as the war was over , Hungary had to revert to its 1918 frontiers . |
| 4 | Almost any spirited teenager who lived in Detroit wanted to move to its bigger busier neighbour Now a lot of people would beg to differ that Chicago is more exciting ; Saunderson would most probably be one of them . |
| 5 | A delighted Mr Crosby refused to capitalise on his strong position to make a public appeal for a job which Notts County 's Neil Warnock remains favourite to fill in the summer . |
| 6 | The NDP failed to improve on its popular vote , winning just over 40 per cent , but benefited from the division of the rest of the electorate between Socred and the Liberals . |
| 7 | In the eighteenth century the Devon began to spread from its western kingdom and the well-known livestock engraver , Garrard , described it as almost the most perfect breed in Britain . |
| 8 | The Canadian frequently came to the net , so Petchey had to rely on his passing shots , but not enough of them found the mark . |
| 9 | Even though she knew she was playing with fire , knew exactly how vulnerable she was , Shannon wanted to laugh in his arrogant face . |
| 10 | Rubbing her lame leg , Shama began to speak in her slow , rolling voice . |
| 11 | In this atmosphere , newcomers like Samuel learned to function with their fellow traders . |
| 12 | Endill continued to search on his own but was becoming more and more tired . |
| 13 | As Silvia continued to inflict on her that look of pained horror , Ronni folded her arms and assumed a school-teacherish expression . |
| 14 | Mortimer began to read in his high , rather strange , voice : |
| 15 | Inspired by the challenging example of Audubon , his working experience under William Harvey , and the living birds at the Zoological Gardens , Lear decided to embark on his own publication . |
| 16 | Judge Lee refused to comment at his luxury home in Malvern , Worcs . |
| 17 | An arbitration commission of eminent constitutional lawyers from France , Italy and Germany was appointed ; they were subsequently joined by others from Belgium and Spain when Yugoslavia failed to agree on its own two appointees . |
| 18 | In 1989 T. moved to live with her paternal grandmother and a year later she went to live with her boyfriend . |
| 19 | At the 1924 Paris Olympics Liddell decided to withdraw from his chosen distance , the 100m as it would have meant competing on a Sunday . |
| 20 | This meant , he argued , that in the 1960s the members of the EEC were able to develop a large and sophisticated market with much technical innovation as a result , while Britain continued to trade in its traditional markets , still partly obsessed with its Commonwealth relationships . |
| 21 | Was it surprising that the Masai preferred to stick to their own way of doing things ? |
| 22 | About four years after his accident , Guy learned to stand on his hemiplegic leg without his toes flexing automatically , so that he could hold his balance while he lifted his other leg off the floor . |
| 23 | Fox Talbot continued to work on his own photographic process in 1839–40 and patented his positive-negative process in 1841 . |
| 24 | With Euro Disney set to open on its 5000- acre site outside Paris on 12 April ( at 9.01am precisely ) and with plans to nearly double the number of Disney attractions and hotels in the USA and Japan , the Disney big cheeses are calling this the ‘ Disney Decade ’ . |
| 25 | People throughout Europe and America began to complain against their new god who seemed to have let them down . |
| 26 | Lāla Bahādur started to play with its stringy tail — twirling it round in the air , twisting and tugging it back from the socket — trying to provoke a reaction that would jar it to life . |
| 27 | He mentions two examples of work that he implies Clark tried to claim as his own . |
| 28 | Eva Hendrix started to chatter in her persuasive voice while the uniformed chauffeur drove them into the ancient town of Freiburg . |
| 29 | Here was a character , like his Uncle Harry , who offered a way of life quite different from the one Mr Thomas hoped to provide for his six sons . |