Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Cecil 's total benefits from office in terms of influence and contacts probably brought him more than Sadler 's £2,600 ; but , once again , the increase was not huge when set beside the rise in prices . |
| 2 | Politically Everett and Horsley also found him intriguing . |
| 3 | It was she who had interviewed Meg for the Old Rectory and Meg now found it difficult to connect that confident , tweeded , slightly aggressive woman with the two gentle old people she knew . |
| 4 | And Francis almost made it five on the stroke of half-time , cutting in from the right and curling a left-foot shot just wide . |
| 5 | This was not of itself disastrous — after tonight it would once more be his profession — but whereas painting had a tangible end result ( two , if he included the recompense ) , pursuit and seduction always left him naked and empty-handed . |
| 6 | The receiver has gone in at only the parent company , and Sharp yesterday made it clear that seven of its 15 operating subsidiaries were going concerns . |
| 7 | But Mum just gave them one of her black looks and elbowed her way past the two women and went into Granny 's house . |
| 8 | But Cohn-Casson also found it impossible to side uncritically with Jews , because to do so would deny modern thinking , by placing tribal loyalties above the mandates of science . |
| 9 | By this time Steven was old enough to come to terms with the divorce , but Matthew still found it difficult . |
| 10 | A kindly uncle with no children of his own had paid for him to be educated , but education only made him discontented with his lot in life . |