Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mia was driven to the Drumcondra clinic , where she instantly fell in love with rough , red-haired little Tip . |
| 2 | I kept them to myself , where they constantly grew in depth and where they became merely a backdrop to my private obsession : home , family , school , everything . |
| 3 | I have learned more than I ever knew about humility . |
| 4 | I experienced far more racism at primary school than I ever did at secondary , which was perhaps unusual . |
| 5 | But I should not have been sent straight from school to Somerville on Classics ; I wanted to swap to History but did not know enough , so I was encouraged to do P.P.E. I was bored by both Philosophy and Economics so I only worked at Politics ’ . |
| 6 | We all had a similar colonial background and were desperate to ‘ fit in ’ and be accepted — so we never talked of racism directly . |
| 7 | She knew that her father had two sisters , although he never kept in touch with them . |
| 8 | He would listen in , showing more powers of concentration than he ever did at work . |
| 9 | ‘ So he probably came to tea and forgot it , ’ said Camille . |
| 10 | I knew she was n't far offshore , but I did n't know anything about the set of currents off Winter Marsh , and if I just rowed into darkness I might miss her altogether , and be carried anywhere . |
| 11 | Classic lighting is ideal for creating atmosphere in traditional-style bedrooms , although if you often read in bed you may need to opt for a more practical design |
| 12 | If we really fell in love and then never saw one another again , it would take us a long time to get over it and forget . |
| 13 | As for some of these Territorial officers — temporary officers , he labelled them … about as likely to amount to anything if they ever went to war as a commercial traveller or a third rate comedian in a music hall . |
| 14 | But by the time of Charlemagne the majority of warriors were on horseback , though it is not clear if they actually fought from horseback or if they used the horses simply as rapid transport for traditional Frankish foot soldiers . |
| 15 | had repercussions for all commandos , for they were strictly uniformed troops , even if they sometimes appeared off enemy coasts under flags of convenience . |
| 16 | On the other hand , I suspected that those concerned with the practical supply of publicly available information to business executives ( whom , after all , the work carried out here was originally intended to help ) would probably not take the trouble to read such a review , if it ever came to fruition , because it would not be practical enough ! |
| 17 | But the Red Army was larger than Western forces in Europe , war could break out ‘ by accident ’ ( through the failure to manage a diplomatic crisis properly ) and a US guarantee — even if it only existed on paper — could provide a major psychological boost to West European morale . |
| 18 | Your letter to Mrs. Evans of ‘ March was sent on to me because I recently wrote about cycle barriers in the ‘ Spokes ’ magazine , which she saw . |
| 19 | Not because I actually felt at home with all the ‘ weirdos ’ in there but because the shop really did look like my nan 's house . |
| 20 | But then they came back and said it was changed to ‘ Everything We Do Is Driven By You ’ and my initial thought was ‘ Yuk , I do n't think I can do anything with that either , ’ because it just sounded like motor cars and I 'm not interested in singing songs about motor cars . |
| 21 | Unfortunately the fireworks must have seeded the thick clouds overhead because it absolutely poured with rain , and we got soaked . |
| 22 | When I came to the Cotswolds and looked for a studio , before I even looked for house , I found a great barn , a wonderful old building , except that it was cathedral-like and freezing cold in the winter . |
| 23 | The patient described by Boustany et al had a cytochrome c oxidase deficiency and a long illness before she eventually died of peritonitis . |
| 24 | A handiwork lesson where children were mechanically engaged in a task ( making brooms ) which all had already mastered before they ever came to school . |
| 25 | He had things to learn before he finally pushed for home . |
| 26 | We had notice of Sarah 's barrenness even before it properly got under way ( 11.30 ) . |
| 27 | But when I finally got to bed again it was well into Monday morning and it was Monday afternoon when I surfaced and there was a policeman on the door and it had n't been a nightmare after all . |
| 28 | For one thing , I suppose I do regard it as the moment in my career when I truly came of age as a butler . |
| 29 | When I actually got to court there was more charges than there should have been . |
| 30 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |