Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stopped when she got quite close and crouched down , putting her hand out to me . |
| 2 | Leith 's mutiny ebbed when she thought how ill and distraught Travis was making himself over his love , and the seed of an idea of appealing to Travis to save her job withered before it was half born . |
| 3 | The most obvious manifestation of this came when he remained almost immobile in the centre of the ring while Biggs picked him off with jabs from long range . |
| 4 | The crux came when she became doubly incontinent and her mind had got to the point where she had forgotten how her body functioned . |
| 5 | It set off packed from top to bottom with Sheffield area anglers , fishing rods and maggots and dropped you off on the canal at Clayworth where George lived until he died about ten years ago . |
| 6 | ‘ I asked if you felt morally comfortable with this assignment , Caroline . ’ |
| 7 | Erm just because I got ten , if you got ten , you passed if you got under ten you 're a drip that 's what said . |
| 8 | Determined to be utterly independent of Bart , he slowly worked his way up , starting as a groom and finally getting his own yard , buying ponies cheap off the race track , or from other players who could n't get a tune out of them , making them , and selling them on , which he detested because he got so fond of them . |
| 9 | So angry was Ian Paisley at the affront to Carson 's memory that he increased his tirade of abuse against O'Neill , produced Carson 's son to contest the Westminster elections in March ( promising four Protestant Unionists in all ) and only withdrew when he realised how devoid of constituency organisation he then was . |
| 10 | It showed as they rattled up 18 unanswered points in the last 10 minutes — including a 50th test try for Campese — to inflict the Boks ' heaviest-ever defeat , and give their retiring skipper a rousing send off . |
| 11 | Anyway , I knew what she was going through since I had been obliged to have all my top teeth out just before the storms started because they ached so much . |
| 12 | ‘ We started because we had so many enquiries about holiday courses , and it has been a tremendous success , ’ says Angela Payne , deputy director of the college . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , yes — I 'd love to , ’ she accepted impulsively , then blushed as she realised how eager she must have sounded . |
| 14 | As the war continued and the death toll at sea mounted , Wilson 's patriotism , his sense of outrage at the methods by the German government to break the Allied blockade and the strength of his anti-German sentiments grew until they became almost pathological . |
| 15 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |
| 16 | Louisa hardly knew whether she felt more relieved or cheated , for the act of summoning all the courage and then being able to employ it only against her own anxiety had depleted her to no useful purpose . |
| 17 | I knew before I started out that , weatherwise , the end of March is not the time to plan a journey to the Islands and my misgiving proved to be well founded as on Tuesday 23 March I found myself in the lounge at Dalcross Airport , Inverness watching gale force winds sweep snow across the runways . |
| 18 | Big , burly Ernest von Witzendorff sat at the foot of the conning-tower and laughed when he remembered how tough it had been in 1944 when Allied planes with radar covered the Atlantic . |
| 19 | She shivered as she felt so many sightless eyes boring into her . |
| 20 | The last thing he did before he fell fast asleep was to slip Sandy 's diary inside his pillow . |
| 21 | The notices go up , inviting applications which no longer refer to ‘ the poor ’ ; and if you read these , you assume it to be some quaint custom , as I did before I heard how much was involved . |
| 22 | Her headache seemed to be getting worse and worse , and Raffaella 's command of English slipped as she grew increasingly excited . |
| 23 | Now what you did when you worked out seventy eight per cent , you say seventy eight over a hundred , and you put it in your calculator , and you did seventy eight divided by a hundred , and that gave you nought point seven eight . |
| 24 | He had forgotten all about Gina , as he usually did when he chatted up pretty girls . |
| 25 | The bridesmaids carried a loop of ribbon and a rose matching their dresses , and Claudia smiled as she saw how effective it all looked . |
| 26 | She cried when she saw how thin and old I looked . |
| 27 | In a talk with the Prime Minister this morning he asked whether I thought too much time of Ministers was taken up by Committees and whether there were too many Committees . |
| 28 | ‘ I think so , but I fainted before I got really close . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Tate said although they felt quite safe on the eighth floor it was disconcerting to see armed security guards and smoke bellowing up through the skyscrapers . |
| 30 | They said if you had over twenty five pounds worth of meat you know , money wise he would deliver it free . |