Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum an , mum and dad expected me to come up last week |
| 2 | Nobody took much notice of them or expected them to start up any form of conversation , so Charles was surprised when Eric addressed him by name . |
| 3 | Toying with that idea started a train of thought about some of the other activities probably open to super-beings , which led me to conjure up some images of myself with Sergia , the Ardakkean , minus her costume , in the Orgitunnel . |
| 4 | Aye , so you end up marking it then and er , well she did , she got me to go there second time , and he said well you ca n't you see er |
| 5 | ‘ Trying on all those clothes was fun but it made me realise how tiring shopping for clothes really is . |
| 6 | Barbara says although she had a fantastic day , she will probably stick to making her own clothes in future : ‘ Trying on all those clothes was fun but it made me realise how tiring modelling — and shopping — really are . |
| 7 | It also made me realise how fickle memory can prove . |
| 8 | And she made me feel about two inches high |
| 9 | What made me go out that night when , normally , I would have stayed in and watched television ? |
| 10 | Her response — such a lighting up of her face — made me remember how few times it was likely she had been kissed in her whole life : not as a child , by the parents who had given her away ; not by her old foster parents ; not often , I guessed , even by Beatrice and her boys . |
| 11 | And it just made me realize how fragile life is and how God has got his hand on you and erm how he protected me from erm being killed in that plane crash because it could easily have been my plane |
| 12 | ‘ Dali made me look about fifteen years older than I was : I grew into that picture ! |
| 13 | We were referred to as ‘ sinister ’ and this made me see how little impact we had made upon the establishment and how much further we needed to go . |
| 14 | Passed me test about twelve years ago . |
| 15 | We amused ourselves playing ever more card games , later and later into the night , using up our sometimes meagre supply of candles . |
| 16 | At this I quickly joined them at the bottom of a long rickety iron ladder which led into the water ballast tanks and found them hauling out several cases which had been concealed there . |
| 17 | When Sal and Kitty first set eyes on my prize , they could n't stop jumping up and down with excitement and even helped me to paint down one side , ‘ Charlie Trumper , the honest trader , founded in 1823 ’ . |
| 18 | Again he found himself wondering how much contentment there was behind any one among this sea of faces ; but the pursuit of such reflection was vain . |
| 19 | There were two clues in the problem : first , that the letters had to appear in the same order , which helped you try out possible solutions ; second , the word " descend . |
| 20 | She found herself wondering how long Matilda would rant against Guy , and another stray thought flashed through her mind . |
| 21 | Charlotte found herself resenting even this element of her relatives ' good fortune . |
| 22 | I called out that we were ready , but there was no answer , and when I returned to the bedroom I found her lying back full length on the bed , her eyes open and gazing up at the ceiling with that same vacant stare . |
| 23 | It was still tender from the soldier 's abuse , but the pain helped her fight back incipient tears . |
| 24 | Jodie Foster offered him respect , helped him laugh away other people 's pretensions . |
| 25 | As their space requirements changed they sought more open greenfield sites away from the conurbation centres ( Wood 1974 ) . |
| 26 | The initiative helped it to take on new staff , all previously unemployed , and train them in skills ranging from computing to business administration . |
| 27 | As the granite cooled it squeezed out hot fluids containing mineral ores in solution . |
| 28 | Some time later found he had only one shoe on . |
| 29 | They defined fire as a means of warmth and used it to heat their dwellings ; as a means of defence and used it to ward off wild animals ; and as a means of transforming substances and employed it for cooking and hardening the points of wooden spears . |
| 30 | The British Cabinet has been the focal point of much general argument among students of politics , but there have been very few detailed case-studies produced which show how individual decisions were made at that level . |