Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Markby joined her on the further side and they both stopped to watch as their bovine companions lumbered up and stood in a row staring at them expectantly , tossing muddy heads . |
| 2 | ‘ It was the first bit of luck I 'd had since I first set eyes on you . |
| 3 | Some twenty-five years later , when I became interested in hypnosis and then in regression therapy , I began to wonder whether my earlier fascination was because I had actually lived in Tudor times . |
| 4 | The elation he 'd felt the day before at his own breathtaking adventure with the Moi girl now also seemed suddenly shameful to him , and he began to wonder if his exaggerated pride in the deed had n't been the direct cause of the danger in which he and his mother had suddenly found themselves on the plain . |
| 5 | Tricia decided to temp when her youngest child started nursery full time . |
| 6 | On Saturday the pupils could enjoy the austere pleasures of going into the small granite town of Elgin , something Richard did not enjoy but decided to do because his injured feet ruled out most alternatives . |
| 7 | I first became involved when my youngest child started attending the playgroup and I was asked to work there a few mornings a week . |
| 8 | But the garments modern Christians think of as Western ecclesiastical vestments developed from the ‘ Sunday best ’ of late Roman aristocrats , which the clergy ( always the guardians of the old tradition ) continued to wear after their barbarian congregations had put on trousers or Lederhosen . |
| 9 | The Duke of Kent had to wait until his fiftieth birthday for the Garter , the senior ranking Duke of Gloucester ( at 45 ) is still waiting . |
| 10 | But underlying all these was the fact that the power of the Polish monarchy had evaporated since its elective character ( which had existed in theory since the 1430s ) had become finally established in practice from the 1570s onwards . |
| 11 | Surely it was what he had seen as her present stupidity that had earned her his contempt , since the past was the past , and she was still reluctant to explain anything more than the absolute minimum necessary to put an end to his increasingly unbearable taunts . |
| 12 | Sometime before he became king in 1625 , James I 's son Charles had adopted as his personal religion a conservative version of Protestantism known as Arminianism ; he had done so either because he disagreed with the doctrine of predestination , or more probably because he found the austere liturgy of undiluted Calvinism distasteful . |
| 13 | Several DCSLs , commenting on Minor Project schools in general , observed that a number of committees had lapsed since their initial involvement in the project , and that those which had operated without the benefit of a committee were the weaker for it . |
| 14 | The Financial Times of March 1 reported that Gorbachev had appointed as his economic adviser Oleg Ozherelev , hitherto an official of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) and formerly dean of the economics faculty at Leningrad University . |
| 15 | He 'd chain-smoke a couple of Merits while we chatted about what had happened since our last meeting and then he 'd hand me over to the guy in the room next door for a routine polygraph . |
| 16 | Mr Gould said that the four Glasgow schools had to close because their small rolls denied pupils a broad curriculum . |
| 17 | Support for the DLP had declined since its 1986 victory under the late Errol Barrow , and the forthcoming vote was seen as a key test of confidence in the leadership of Sandiford , Barrow 's successor , whose stewardship of the DLP had been marked by factional fighting . |
| 18 | How the girl had changed since their first meeting on the ship ! |
| 19 | GRANDPARENTS welcomed a rare opportunity in Wirral yesterday to see how school life had changed since their own childhood . |
| 20 | And he advised parliament , when a House of Commons committee was enquiring into the provisional continuance of the prison hulks system in 1778 , that conditions had improved since his earlier criticisms and that he would support continued use of the hulks until transportation could be resumed . |
| 21 | The Secretary of State for Employment sought to protest when my hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield suggested to him that we were near the bottom of the league tables , saying that we should not take too much account of them . |
| 22 | Four Australian cricket-writers and one Australian team manager will never forget the day at net practice in Christchurch on the 1985–86 tour of New Zealand when , during a routine discussion with the journalists on preparation for a one-day match , he made mention of the fact that he intended to resign if his shattered team did not win the match the following Saturday . |
| 23 | The party officers and Whips were solidly behind Chamberlain , but Law drew off some of his support among tariff reformers and , urged on by Edward Goulding and Max Aitken , he refused to withdraw unless his continued candidature would allow Long to win . |