Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Then , leaving his sobbing family at home , he dashed to a soccer match , where he gave away a penalty and cheated his team of a victory . |
| 3 | He was educated at Marlborough College , to which he had a lifelong devotion , and at Balliol College , Oxford , where he captained both the cricket and hockey XIs and where he obtained a first class in classical honour moderations ( 1924 ) and second classes in mathematical moderations ( 1924 ) and literae humaniores ( 1926 ) . |
| 4 | I have received thy kind letter of February the 19th 1755 , which gave me much satisfaction : and some uneasiness , that so many years have elapsed wherein we might have reciprocally communicated our observations to each other ; and although thee had incomparably the advantage over me , yet , notwithstanding , I love to peep into the abstruse operations of nature . |
| 5 | I nodded , although I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about . |
| 6 | She left without a murmur although she had only a year and a half to go to complete her secondary education . |
| 7 | And she had never needed Josey 's encouragement more than she had just a matter of a few short weeks ago . |
| 8 | They took the little house two doors away from Ken and Rhoda ; her own to play with , to sweep and dust and arrange as she liked , and meals for two to cook at her discretion , and her father and grandmother just down the road so she had both a respite from them and could keep an eye on them , not too close but not too far . |
| 9 | Camille walked down a sleazy stretch of road , where half the shops were closing as the developers quadrupled the rents , and bought herself an ice-cream to take away the taste of margaritas : it was already midday , so she had only an hour or two before she could go home , claiming that her games lesson had been cancelled because someone had felled the netball posts . |
| 10 | Erm , once she walked into W H Smith 's and saw her father , the only difference was that he was on the front page of a magazine so she got quite a shock because she did n't expect to see him . |
| 11 | He sat in the stern , half-turned away from us so we saw only the side of his face . |
| 12 | In England the codes of the Anglo-Saxon kings , although they covered only a fraction of the area covered by custom , and although they contained numerous traditional items , involved some new legislation and made little pretence of not doing so . |
| 13 | That was actually quite a productive meeting , although it took quite a time to get through it , I think we did the right thing on the continuous procedures . |
| 14 | Although he had neither the time nor the opportunity to continue with his verse drama , the subject was never far from his mind . |
| 15 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 16 | There was nothing of that Nicholas wished to discuss , so he answered only the question . |
| 17 | How about if I said well the reason why they migrate is that they do n't know about urban unemployment , you know if , you know , it 's a lack of information problem . |
| 18 | If I stood here the machine would go to that wall and the same that way and then round , in diameter . |
| 19 | and the other may or may not of been like I said just the fact I 'm shaking your hand , weapon he goes and does a frenzy test but the evidence on those three were , was n't very , was n't very conclusive and it |
| 20 | Cos I thought well the couple had only just walked up there and I thought to myself oh well he might meet up with them , you know . |
| 21 | ‘ But why should Joe Maitland do that if 'e went ter the fights 'imself ? ’ |
| 22 | She risked standing , poised to duck back under the slab of rock if she saw even the shadow of a movement . |
| 23 | In this case , it was held that a woman lacked capacity to consent if she had neither the knowledge nor understanding to comprehend that ( a ) what was proposed to be done was the physical fact of penetration of her body by the male organ or if that were not proved , ( b ) that the act of penetration proposed was one of sexual connection as distinct from an act of a totally different character . |
| 24 | if you went home the day before Philip goes to get everything ready for him so you have n't |
| 25 | If you did then the chances are that all your service will count for family benefits . |
| 26 | They 'd cry their eyes out if they heard even a whisper of this silly talk . ’ |
| 27 | Still they kept chanting , knowing that if they stopped now the spell would run out of control and all their work would be undone . |
| 28 | Mind you , it looks as if they did quite a bit of homework and know kelly is a converted winger … |
| 29 | In opposition , they likewise shifted right ( Britain ) or , if they started nearer the centre ( Germany ) , just waited for the inevitable disillusionment with conservatism to set in . |
| 30 | ‘ Your house will be worth a lot more now , ’ people remarked brightly , which observation — if it brought forth a reply at all — was countered by a snapped : ‘ I did n't buy it as an investment ’ . |