Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Alison regarded me as though I were a dosser who 'd just importuned her for some spare change . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ That I 'd never seen her from that day to this , of course . |
| 5 | I 'd never associated her with any kind of wit , but these were joky and mocking , very amusing letters . |
| 6 | Now you said that you 'd actually presented it in another way and were just , and , and had just changed it . |
| 7 | It was true she 'd avoided him , had gladly left him to Merry , but it had n't occurred to her that he might be aware of that . |
| 8 | It was five long years since any man — this man — had intimately touched her like this ; five years in which she 'd held at bay these deep torrents of emotion , which would not now be denied . |
| 9 | Despite their common backgrounds , shared interests , and childhood ties , Gould 's pre-eminence had swiftly distinguished him beyond social association with his former colleague . |
| 10 | He had not said that he believed her , had only touched her for that fleeting moment , but she knew what she had felt . |
| 11 | The Viennese modernists , Klimt , von Hofmannsthal , Hoffmann , Moser , had only joined them in this acceptance . |
| 12 | And seeing Nicole had only reminded her of that fact . |
| 13 | Tony 's GP had prescribed the medication for his sleeping difficulties , but he had only taken it on two occasions , finding the tablets to be of little help . |
| 14 | In line with his overall political goal of proving that Labour was ‘ fit to govern ’ , Macdonald abandoned the visions of democratic diplomacy which had so excited him in 1917 and proceeded to adjust to the reality of a balance of power mediated through the League , helping to resolve the Ruhr crisis by lending his support to the rescheduling , rather than the abolition , of German reparations payments . |
| 15 | Later , she could hardly remember what the issues were that had so roused them to mutual abuse . |
| 16 | The morning 's adventure had apparently left him in hot water with the lady of the moment . |
| 17 | Parke , aged 17 , had already showed us with two wins in the previous two days that he has great ability . |
| 18 | He was alone at the centre of driving lines of grey and wet , and only a will that had already taken him across wide seas and a wider continent drove him forward . |
| 19 | ‘ ALMIGHTY Allah has vindicated us , ’ Nawaz Sharif told the crowds waiting outside Pakistan 's Supreme Court on May 26th : the court had just reinstated him as prime minister . |
| 20 | It was as if , gasping out his last breath , that battered , bitter and vindictive old man had somehow injected him with some small portion of his own bitter resolve . |
| 21 | Constance had also fought her mother all the way when she was young and her personality was still forming , and then had somehow abandoned her in later life , when the need to fight had gone . |
| 22 | Rincewind glanced around quickly , in case some leakage of enchantment from the Magician 's Quarter across the river had momentarily transported them to some other place . |
| 23 | Papa had always protected her from such things . |
| 24 | I had been four years at an evangelical theological college but no one had ever put it like that to me . |
| 25 | Moreover , this particular photograph had been brought to the lab only that day , and no one had ever coupled it with any sort of training . |
| 26 | Back in the hall he pushed the thermostat up to seventy-five degrees ; he doubted if his mother had ever set it above sixty . |
| 27 | He had once questioned her on this point , saying that a man of his age preferred younger women to be seen out with . |
| 28 | In court his wife Christine admitted a lesbian relationship and said her husband had once caught her with another woman . |
| 29 | Marie Claire had once commended me on this negative virtue . |
| 30 | All understanding is guided by the Holy Spirit , whose manifold activity is emphasized ( whereas the first draft had practically restricted it to biblical inspiration ) . |