Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And onto ou round Australia and that and I mentioned I started in New Foundland , yes . |
| 2 | McLeish found himself shocked by this piece of feminine sharpness and must have registered something because his sergeant blushed . |
| 3 | These phrases do , however , have the ring of truth in an aesthetic sense — or rather there was an aesthetic process involved which had to some extent its own story . |
| 4 | However , our experience was that the very week that our new church planting team began to meet , with such rosy hopes , a violent row between two families occurred which resulted in one couple leaving the team and the church . |
| 5 | It was the speed at which the decline occurred which led to wild suggestions that Britain was on the verge of a race suicide . |
| 6 | An inquest into Beverley 's death found she died of natural causes but had slipped through the net of caring representatives like her GP and social worker . |
| 7 | On this view industry found itself subordinated to older sections of the upper class both economically and culturally . |
| 8 | Perhaps those artists mentioned who worked in several ways — like Hartley or Guston or Morris — will be shown in a manner that suggests some of the aesthetic connective tissue that is otherwise ignored , but if they are represented only by their signature work a great deal will be missing . |
| 9 | When the music stopped they looked at each other for a long moment , then reluctantly drew apart . |
| 10 | The two men found they agreed on many points about today 's press . |
| 11 | A great cultural movement like the twelfth-century Renaissance can not be explained in simple terms : the influences and the inspiration which created it flowed through many channels , some of them deep beneath the ground . |
| 12 | Unfortunately they were again delayed by rough terrain , and when they got to the road they found it choked with German armour heading for the front . |
| 13 | The anger obsessed her , but later she turned it on herself and found it mixed with shamed bewilderment . |
| 14 | Through no fault of their own , through deformity or genetic accident , they found themselves marginalized by Indian society , turned into something half-way between a talisman and an object of ridicule . |
| 15 | In this particular interview irony was continuously deployed against almost any remark other boys made which hinted at any involvement with the text . |
| 16 | And when she woke she turned with such longing to where he had lain and called his name and thought she would do anything for him , anything at all he wanted , because she loved him , she loved him , she loved him . |
| 17 | A post mortem revealed she died from natural causes and the coroner ruled there was no need for an inquest . |
| 18 | As her father had so often complained , to engage with this task was to enter a labyrinth , and it seemed that whichever way she turned she came to this impasse . |
| 19 | The new state comprised the historic provinces of Bohemia and Moravia together with Slovakia which , until 1918 , had been part of Hungary , together with Ruthenia and a northern fringe of the Hungarian plain which , though it was Magyar-speaking , the new state claimed it needed on economic grounds . |
| 20 | Neither do you 'ave to pay a hundred quid like I 'eard it cost at one time . ’ |
| 21 | In the silence that followed I reached for another scone . |
| 22 | Not only will the German and French teachers themselves benefit , in their increased command of English and knowledge of British life and institutions ( as large numbers of British teachers of German benefited who worked in German schools during the seventies , when Germany had a teacher shortage ) but they will bring their great asset of native-speaker fluency and intimate knowledge and experience of the foreign country to foreign language classrooms that are increasingly practical and communicative . |
| 23 | When the magazine folded she specialised in dried flowers which had the virtue of not being able to shriek back . |
| 24 | When we first drank claret we heard it called by that name , we were eating such and such a dinner etc . |
| 25 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 26 | While they talked she glanced at three photographs framed on a shelf . |
| 27 | The slam of the door and its subsequent splitting as the axe hit it merged into one sound . |
| 28 | She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep . |
| 29 | They thought I meant for five seconds but I made them practise holding their tone for twenty or thirty seconds . |
| 30 | I thought I 'd post some information about the match last night , mainly for our overseas friends . |