Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not clear whether this reduced their disadvantages or simply made them more alarming to the British . |
| 2 | I waited and waited for him at the points and eventually met him about three or four o'clock in the morning for the first time . |
| 3 | But that I must try and look at it like this : that Mama had been her very special baby — and so had I. So that could never be the same again . |
| 4 | This face of anxiety refined and narrowed the horse 's muzzle , and so made it more attractive for a photograph ! |
| 5 | It was not that her therapist was possessed of unusual wisdom or insight and that Scarlet had learned from her : it was just that Scarlet had discerned her way of thought and her approach to the problems which beset the insecure and so found her entirely predictable . |
| 6 | These invitations made Henrietta feel that she would do anything , even return to the well , to avoid the company of the two youths one of whom bore across his chest the legend MY MOTHER WENT TO ISRAEL AND ONLY BROUGHT ME BACK THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT . |
| 7 | She feels deeply rejected by a man who was in fact very shy , and apparently found it extremely hard to express himself affectionately . |
| 8 | Mr Wakil drew attention in Parliament to ‘ quite a few other developing countries ’ which had embarked on television in some haste and already found it too costly ; Tanzania , he said , would have the sense to learn from their experience . |
| 9 | He took the hand-brake off and just moved it about thirty yards . |
| 10 | That would drive him to madness , to the place they most wanted him , the place in which it would be even more difficult to find the Key ; an institution , a hospital where they filled you up with all sorts of disgusting drugs and deliberately kept you as stupid as the rest . |
| 11 | Anderson ( 1971 , pp. 125–7 ) argues that the good wages which young people could earn in the cotton towns in the mid-nineteenth century altered the balance between parents and children and put them on more equal terms when they shared a household , and also made it more possible for them to leave the parental home — although boys did this more often than girls . |
| 12 | ‘ Not all women , ’ she replied and then regretted her rather tart reply . |
| 13 | Turakina ran the needle through the folds of material several times , looped the thread upon itself , and then snapped it off short . |
| 14 | She could not refuse and indeed found it quite easy to accept . |
| 15 | The memory of it and the attitude of the other states rankled with de Gaulle , and undoubtedly strengthened his already considerable doubts about the wisdom of allowing Britain into an organisation which he wished France to dominate . |
| 16 | Just because the land was generous and never left them seriously hungry , it did n't mean they were ever relieved of their relentless toil . |
| 17 | He was slightly perturbed by this but eventually found it very funny because rehearsals became very convivial . |
| 18 | Mercifully , she said nothing , but silently handed me yet another package and my change . |
| 19 | Nihilist is the case but it risks confusion between Dostoevsky and Turgenev who may not have invented the word but certainly gave it very wide currency . |