Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course everyone curtsied too . |
| 2 | I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again . |
| 3 | We are not happy with the Labour resolution for reasons I indicated earlier . |
| 4 | ‘ I intend writing the story I came here to find . ’ |
| 5 | That was the story I had later from one of her flatmates . |
| 6 | At this time I remember too the widely reported story I had once thought apocryphal but now know to be in Dr. Ronald Glasser 's The Body is the Hero . |
| 7 | For my part it brought to light fascinating aspects of English language use about whose existence I had previously been quite unaware — or , perhaps better , about whose extent I had previously been quite unaware . |
| 8 | The contract I signed legally binds the station as much as it does me . |
| 9 | ‘ In that case I 'd better come with you , ’ Woodruffe said . |
| 10 | After a number of closed doors there was a feeling of discouragement and uselessness but I thank God that another door has opened — not in a direction I had originally looked but one which I am sure is right for now . |
| 11 | In the jury were such well-known ‘ independent ’ commentators as Rodney Bickerstaffe of NUPE , a Regional Health Authority Chairman I had just replaced , a nurses ' negotiator , a consultant who wanted more money for his hospital and an ancillary health worker . |
| 12 | A dip in the hill , much like those at Sulber Nick and Kirkby Nick , led over the crest by an outcrop and as I walked out from the dip I saw ahead of me Raydale with , to my left , Semer Water and Addlebrough behind it . |
| 13 | I was amazed and terrified at the change I had so casually brought about in her . |
| 14 | That 's a division I 'd never even heard of before . |
| 15 | On the plus side was the fact that the Foreign Office and the years spent in Cabinet were a good apprenticeship , while in addition I had never been afraid of taking decisions . |
| 16 | With great difficulty I reached home . |
| 17 | The champagne I spurned so imperiously … |
| 18 | closely followed by Dennis Irwin , Terry Phelan , Andy Linighan , Scott Sellars Loads of them , Sunderland twice , Chester , Colchester , Bristol City , Watford The worst must be Oxford 4–1 1983–4 , and 5–2 1984–5 , bcause of the stick I took Also when we lost a home game to Spurs 2–1 in 1978–79 , Spurs played half the with 10 men ( Miller sent off ) and Hoddle in goal because of injury . |
| 19 | Both of these activities I enjoyed very much , but maths was a torture ! |
| 20 | The ‘ Oh ! ’ was caused by a flash of insight ; it seemed like an answer to the prayer I had not prayed , the prayer I had only thought . |
| 21 | Bit I learnt quite a lot in , from the back you know , in the terraced . |
| 22 | He said it was quieter in there , but I could n't see the lay-by from his room and after a bit I went outside . |
| 23 | ‘ The bit I liked best , ’ says Phil , ‘ was when you prodded the pig and told it about the unfairness of micro-organisms . |
| 24 | MacLachlan , victor of eight combats over the island , was fortunate to come down on Malta itself , rather than in the sea : ‘ For what seemed like hours I hung there , apparently motionless , with Malta still as far away as ever . |
| 25 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
| 26 | anyway he went to the toilet , went a wee and I put him back in bed and he was laid there and anyway and , and he eventually dropped off , anyway I was telling my mum about it yesterday , and I did n't sort of think no more of it the next day , right , and mum I said well if ever he gets that again she said you should from the doctor she said , because , one of our boys had it she said and it was a blockage |
| 27 | Then I spotted them — superb orange orchids of a kind I had never seen in Danu . |
| 28 | This is even more true if we wish to make generalisations of the kind I examined above with regard to the relative logic , objectivity and neutrality of whole systems . |
| 29 | I , I of course , I suppose going round with milk I 'd perhaps got more confidence th cos I had to take milk whether I wanted to or not , see and we if we got down there and there was two or three of the conductresses down the fleck and er , jump on a Dalston bus cos I 'd got to get to like , you know . |
| 30 | I told her to forget this doctor nonsense and talk more reasonably about the oilman and his petrodollars and what he had her do In the dying moments she made a noise I 'd never heard her make before , a rhythmical whimpering of abandonment or entreaty , a lost sound . |