Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] [det] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They helped me in many ways but there was something sick in my mind . |
| 2 | We regarded ourselves as more hostages than prisoners . |
| 3 | Of course we knew we were going to marry , we promised ourselves to each other when she was only sixteen . |
| 4 | In France , Bernard found himself with more time than he had ever been used to in his working life ; after his hour-long morning telephone call to John James the day stretched ahead . |
| 5 | He helped himself to another brandy and waved the bottle before Herr Nordern 's eyes . |
| 6 | Importantly for Nicholson , this quirk in the social order was all that was needed to give him the kick-start he required , and it also provided him with more money than he had ever earned before . |
| 7 | Further , and in acknowledgment of his work as joint secretary of the Tutorial Classes Committee and for his duties in connection with the annual Cambridge Summer School Pateman also received a substantial honorarium which provided him with some security as his salary as District Secretary was not infrequently in arrears . |
| 8 | This provided her with some seeds and a loan to buy a goat . |
| 9 | Subsequent parliamentary enquiries into improper electoral practices involved him in some censure and this enabled Disraeli , who never liked him , to make fresh arrangements for the management of the party in opposition . |
| 10 | Lucie , who had been calling to him all the while , unheard above the din , caught him in both arms and ran with him , up the steps and through the chapel door which Izzie was holding open . |
| 11 | This led to the development officer having to assume such a role herself , and occasionally this involved her in more work than she felt she could easily provide . |
| 12 | They might have mislaid the formula for operating over five days — December 1986 is the last time England beat anyone of any consequence when asked to bat and bowl for longer than 55 overs — but there is no getting away from their ability to play the negative stuff as well as anyone else . |
| 13 | ‘ I approached it with some trepidation but the satisfaction of passing was immense , ’ he said . |
| 14 | They described themselves to each other as being virtuous even , and certainly industrious . |
| 15 | Thank goodness we had tutors who helped us to some extent and who seemed quite accustomed to listening to tales of woe . |
| 16 | My Dad ( who smoked ! ) caught us on that occasion and my punishment was being forced to smoke a whole cigarette ( which I did n't want ) in front of my friends who were called into the front room especially to witness the humiliation . |
| 17 | I saw an excellent physiotherapist and a chiropractor who subjected me to some tests and found that the ratio between my hamstrings and my quadriceps was n't good enough . |
| 18 | George MacKerracher was a character in himself , and although I always suspected that he made up most of his stories , he told them with such sincerity and verve that they were quite believable . |
| 19 | Well he , he appreciated at the previous table show on the sixth of October and that was a case when it was always you know , because Danny only told me on that night that he could come . |
| 20 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 21 | It was there she told me about this sister and showed me her hand . |
| 22 | Some candidates for overseas study told me in all honesty that the acquisition of consumer durables , the modern-day trappings of success , was the main motivation for their efforts , although they also hoped to help the ‘ motherland ’ in the process . |
| 23 | In 1330 , however , Edward III successfully rid himself of that control and Mortimer was himself executed . |
| 24 | ‘ I played him in many positions and he 's never let us down . |
| 25 | ( President Assad told him on that occasion that Saddam Hussein was like a chain-smoker : ‘ He can not help lighting another one before he has finished the first . |
| 26 | She cooked his favourite meals , kept the house neat and clean , obeyed him in all things and gave herself to him willingly and frequently . |
| 27 | But to hear now that That Woman was living in the Dower House , the very woman on whose account his mother had been incarcerated there , filled him with such distress that he could barely find the strength to be civil . |
| 28 | Then the world seemed to be going round and he was falling down and someone was running from a distance , one of the Keepers , in a grey uniform and with a fat pale face that filled him with such fear that he began to cry out in Hebrew words that he had forgotten he knew . |
| 29 | On another day I provoked him in some way and he slapped my cheek . |
| 30 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |