Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] [art] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt like I 'd been kicked by a camel but I still needed food , so I polished off the eclair , belched with all the decorum I could , and started eyeing up a Danish pastry . |
| 2 | ‘ It came on fine the night I was there . |
| 3 | Benjamin acted with all the authority he could muster : displaying Wolsey 's warrants and issuing orders in such harsh tones that everyone we met was soon running about as if the great Cardinal himself had arrived . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sure ! ’ he replied in such a way it made Maggie giggle again . |
| 5 | So what happened to all the muck we grew up with ? |
| 6 | ‘ They reckoned it was haunted and no one would buy it , and in the end it got in such a state they got the council to pull it down . |
| 7 | Yet when Lukowiak looked for such a correlation he could not find it ; it seemed as if control of the strength of the reflex was not vested in any single cell of the abdominal ganglion , but was instead a property of the interactions between the ensemble of cells as a system . |
| 8 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
| 9 | As he threw it into the sea , watching the water swallow up his past month 's work , he thought of all the walking he was soon to do . |
| 10 | It would be interesting to know what she did with all the money he left her . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You really are incredible , ’ she said with all the venom she could muster . |
| 12 | Yes , yes , oh yes I 've well you know the fires on that I had in all the winter I 'm going to get on that today . |
| 13 | She pinched herself , but might as well have been pinching the padded plastic of the bed on which she sat for all the sensation she felt . |
| 14 | Here she sat amidst all the beauty she had created — miserable as hell . |