Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I passed the hall in a large comprehensive school , where notices proclaimed ‘ Quiet please : examination in progress ’ , the invigilator , a geography teacher , staggered out to engage me in slurred discussion of educational issues . |
| 2 | I cried all day long and although Bessie tried hard to tempt me with nice things to eat or my favourite books , I took no pleasure in eating or even in reading . |
| 3 | If we want to keep the best scientists and the best engineers in this country , we 'd better do two things : we 'd better attract them with good pay and we 'd better train them right and give them the proper facilities . |
| 4 | Looking down at the pathetic little body lying so still on the table , she said , ‘ I 'd better leave him like this for Dawn to see . |
| 5 | I think we 'd better leave it at that for the moment . |
| 6 | I 've got Mrs and I think we 'd better leave it at that . |
| 7 | " Yes , we 'd better do something about that . " |
| 8 | ‘ You 'd better mind yourself with this fellow . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'd better take me to this Wyrmberg of yours , had n't you ? ’ |
| 10 | I 'd better get mine on quick fifteen two fifteen four six pairs eight . |
| 11 | ‘ I think I 'd better provide you with toasted teacakes as well , ’ said Amiss sympathetically . |
| 12 | Or I 'd better provide you with some paper . |
| 13 | I 'd only experienced them through other people and it was something I could n't bear to think about , really , because my mother had died of it and all I could remember was a series of silences and around the silence was terror to me . |
| 14 | Sien came in to see him on visiting days , and she was keeping an eye on the studio . |
| 15 | Alison regarded me as though I were a dosser who 'd just importuned her for some spare change . |
| 16 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 17 | She 'd already got herself into all sorts of trouble listening to other people 's opinions , and she was n't going to make that mistake again . |
| 18 | Positivist criminology , on the other hand , seemed scarcely to recognise it at all . |
| 19 | Sitting in the train , with a Sunday paper which I 'd automatically bought lying unopened on my knee , I felt a sense of relief at being away from him , at being surrounded by a lot of impersonal uncaring strangers who could see nothing different about me because they 'd never seen me before last night . |
| 20 | ‘ That I 'd never seen her from that day to this , of course . |
| 21 | I 'd never done anything like that before . |
| 22 | I 'd never done anything like that before . |
| 23 | I 'd never heard anything like that before . |
| 24 | I 'd never associated her with any kind of wit , but these were joky and mocking , very amusing letters . |
| 25 | She 'd never experienced anything like this in her life before — she 'd never met a man who had made any real , lasting impression on her . |
| 26 | He 'd never known anyone for touching things like Lee . |
| 27 | Now you said that you 'd actually presented it in another way and were just , and , and had just changed it . |
| 28 | I vowed never to put myself in that position again , ’ she says . |
| 29 | Eventually , after three weeks , he stepped in to rescue her from another , unwanted admirer and love blossomed . |
| 30 | It was an exquisitely warm afternoon in Aswan-just the sort of day for which the swallows fly so far , When the Shah walked slowly down from the plane , looking drawn and exhausted , Sadat stepped forward to kiss him on both cheeks — despite advice from his officials that he should be more circumspect with the fallen King . |