Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I was struggling to stop it , frost was formed where it struck my already cold hand . |
| 2 | On the dashboard in front of him the radio crackled and he picked it up . |
| 3 | The woman had become suicidally depressed while pregnant with her previous two children and was devastated when she found herself accidentally pregnant again . |
| 4 | Marian leaned over the parapet ; the rain , which still streamed down , was forgotten as she watched him rapidly disappear . |
| 5 | Blanche drove on and three hours later she was safe in Dornaway Castle , where she seemed so shaken that they put her straight to bed . |
| 6 | ‘ Why have I always felt that I knew you before ? ’ |
| 7 | So they pick up full speed and run for cover — and your net should be carefully positioned so they hit it just before reaching safety . |
| 8 | The performances on this new disc are first-rate ; indeed they are so polished that I found myself occasionally longing for something with a little more humanity and which more faithfully reflected what were in all probability the more rough-and-ready sounds of the Kürbs-Hütte clientele . |
| 9 | In a society where we spend so much money , time and effort in trying to attain immortality , by constantly eradicating the diseases from which a human being can die , it may be said that we find it more and more difficult to face mortality either in ourselves or in those close to us . |
| 10 | It is said that they play none really well but this was not true of Tom who looked like becoming a child virtuoso of the flute . |
| 11 | ( At the same time it must be admitted that no Secretary of State has ever said that he accepts one either , though his order to publish a report might be taken as such an admission . ) |
| 12 | She was being strangled and I pulled him off . |
| 13 | Everyone says how well I 've done and nobody teases me now . |
| 14 | He had dark eyes , thickly lashed and they regarded her steadily almost as if he knew her . |
| 15 | Get it done cos they send you off at ten . |
| 16 | He said it was clear to him you were pining away , and that you could only be saved if I took you away and made love to you for the rest of our lives . ’ |
| 17 | Maggie quietly told him all that Ana had said and he heard her through in silence . |
| 18 | It was something that Harriet had particularly noticed and which made her both angry yet hopeful : angry that her daughter could not or would not always behave in such a way and hopeful that perhaps some day Liza would come to her senses and throw off the mask of invalidism behind which Harriet felt sure she was hiding . |
| 19 | Constance thought Ludovico the most romantic man she had ever seen but what intrigued her most were his luxuriantly long eye-lashes . |
| 20 | ‘ The BBC has always been classified as the station which tells the truth and they should make sure their research has been properly done before they publish anything else . ’ |
| 21 | He would not be prepared when she asked him why he had sent two men to beat up a pathetic hotel clerk and frighten a vulnerable old woman . |
| 22 | Ripe Oregon strawberries are especially selected as we feel it best compliments the rich cream flavour of Häagen-Dazs . |
| 23 | Eliot wrote of the huge scale of the Russian Revolution and of the huge scale of its violence , pointing out that only one result could justify such huge and terrible expense : ‘ Such a cataclysm is justified if it produces something really new : Un [ sic ] oasis d'horreur dans un désert d'ennui ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ I would have thought that I knew him fairly well , but in writing the lyrics I found depths I had never contemplated . ’ |
| 25 | The Bloods/Crips programme is so infinitely the best scheme for recovering LA thus far offered that I append it here in its vivacious entirety . |
| 26 | This old fella had died and she took us there to choose what we wanted which was horrible . |
| 27 | There 's no reason for the door to stay shut for good over that flying incident , but it will only be opened if he wants it enough . ’ |
| 28 | What we 've got if you write them out separately |
| 29 | suet in it I think it 'll end up runny rather than with nothing inside of it and if you 've got unless you want one as large as that I thought to myself . |
| 30 | Do n't you think you 'd better see the body buried before you do anything else ? |