Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As their space requirements changed they sought more open greenfield sites away from the conurbation centres ( Wood 1974 ) . |
| 2 | Some time later found he had only one shoe on . |
| 3 | He wore a sailor 's short sword by his side , and I noticed he had only three fingers on his left hand . |
| 4 | Watching him refill her glass , she noticed he had unusually long fingernails for a man . |
| 5 | I said I never realized she 'd only that bit . |
| 6 | Professor Dabs 's study of cases of female prisoners , convicted of violent crimes , in America , showed they had unusually high levels of the male sex hormone testosterone . |
| 7 | On average these people claimed they spent about six hours a week on such work , and this was equivalent to about 400,000 full-time workers . |
| 8 | Shortly before his fifteenth birthday he began boxing professionally as ‘ Kid ’ Lewis at the Judaean Club , Whitechapel , where he had nearly fifty contests , and when Premierland opened he boxed there thirty-five times in 1912 . |
| 9 | When Roeder began he found very little material and much that was written erroneously , even in the Dictionary of National Biography . |
| 10 | As she told a close friend : ‘ I knew I had only one chance to get it right . |
| 11 | I mean I spoke to Jane the other Sunday and I , I said to her you know , just be honest , I said I do n't care what you said , but just be honest and tell me how much you think I weigh , cos she does n't know how much I weigh and she thought I weighed about ten stone , I said well stick thirteen pounds on top of that , then you 'll be right , she could n't believe that I , that I weighed that much , so obviously it does n't look that bad and people at work , well they 've noticed that I 've lost weight , but they do n't say how much they think I weigh , so I do n't want come to them to sort of , have a , have a g have a guess of my weight . |
| 12 | With Alain around she felt she needed as much camouflage as possible . |
| 13 | I knew she had this little vanity that she did n't like people to see her with her spectacles on . |
| 14 | He thought she had too much power for a woman . |
| 15 | It was with a certain sense of foreboding — as if we had seen an omen — that we descended from this mountain fastness to the domain of the Bugis , where we knew we had just two months left to find a prahu to carry us eastwards before the monsoon set in … |
| 16 | I never knew we had so many relatives and friends . |
| 17 | Andrew 's job as a Royal Navy helicopter pilot , based in Somerset , meant they spent just 100 days together in their first year and it was a parting that Fergie felt particularly keenly . |
| 18 | He wrote Paddy , published in Cyril Connelly 's Horizon about 1946 , and let them all have it , which meant he 'd even less chance of getting a job after that . |
| 19 | He knew he had very little time before the performance began . |
| 20 | Ace thought of it as some sort of insect , although she knew it had too many legs . |
| 21 | In fact , ‘ Damnation Derek ’ is a Christian who believes in ‘ Witnessing ’ and it is this simple , even commendable desire to tell others about God and all things Christian that has earned him his nickname ( 'Damnation' is n't his real name — in case you thought he had very unloving parents ! ) and which has made him a Playground Health Hazard . |
| 22 | ‘ He did , once , but he threw them out of his house ; he thought he wasted too much time telling his two youngest sons bed-time stories . ’ |
| 23 | When first formed it had only 12 members ; it now has 30,000 . |
| 24 | Even Daley Thompson , who insisted he had very little interference from teachers , said they helped him in a non-involved way : ‘ They were all right ; they left me alone and let me get on with what suited me . |
| 25 | He got he had really interesting ones like erm old people speaking , erm what else ? |
| 26 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 27 | Timesense said she had maybe three hours to reach the Narrow Room . |
| 28 | Who said we had too many defenders ! : - ) All these ‘ injuries ’ are nt serious and should all be ok for saturday . |
| 29 | And it was no comfort having old ladies telling me how they wished they had naturally curly hair . |
| 30 | Endill found it funny but someone sitting next to him said it became very annoying year after year . |