Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had already been parachute-trained at Ringway near Manchester and were led by the redoubtable Commandant Bergé , whom Stirling later acknowledged as a co-founder of the SAS . |
| 2 | ‘ I should think he was the only creature for whom Lavinia truly cared . ’ |
| 3 | These last did in Scotland what they could not do in England , causing Protestant zealots , whom Ewing also disliked , to oppose the Oxford men with constant litigation . |
| 4 | Shortly afterwards he apparently became tutor to a son or sons of Sir Thomas Hoby [ q.v. ] , of Bisham Abbey , Berkshire , whose wife Elizabeth [ q.v. ] commended him to her brother-in-law William Cecil ( later Baron Burghley , q.v. ) , whom Hayes apparently served in unknown capacities for at least twenty years . |
| 5 | One is reminded , too , that this was in actual fact the practice of the Douanier Rousseau , a painter whom Picasso much admired . |
| 6 | Was my freedom not given to me then in order to build the world of the You ? |
| 7 | ( Not , by the way , that I have my heart particularly set on a boy but , having grown up with only brothers , I do n't quite know what the female clichés look like . ) |
| 8 | I did n't have time to get paranoid about blood poisoning as my heart suddenly stopped beating . |
| 9 | My heart almost stopped with its own heaviness . |
| 10 | My hair still wet from the shower , |
| 11 | I enjoyed Niall Dickson 's article ‘ Capital punishment ’ ( Body Politic , October 28 ) and was especially pleased to see my views accurately represented . |
| 12 | Now I 'm , I 'm from Worksop and my first job was at Newark and my contacts now gone . |
| 13 | Even when , in 1978 , McLaren returned from Brazil with the news that Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs was now ‘ lead singer ’ of the Sex Pistols and someone McLaren earnestly claimed to be the missing Nazi war criminal Martin Bormann was the new bass-guitarist , Branson took it with disarming enthusiasm . |
| 14 | In early 1986 , my foot finally healed and I began to train as if I was as fit as I had been before my injury . |
| 15 | On that sun-drenched day at Maubisson I kept my fingers well hidden , smiled politely and quietly prayed that these wolves in human flesh were seeking other quarry apart from us . |
| 16 | And so I waited for the darkness of the Tongan night to lift , my fingers tightly crossed . |
| 17 | And well I , we even considered me and my sister even considered going back into driving instruction . |
| 18 | My parents snored in tandem and my sister occasionally joined in . |
| 19 | My sister really needed that . |
| 20 | You know when I look vexed , I goes , because I hav n't seen you for few weeks , and he walked away , come are you walking back with us ? |
| 21 | The weight on my neck instantly lifted , and I straightened my back . |
| 22 | She still filled her boring blue costume wonderfully , I noted — while part of my mind slowly realized that my ship 's damaged preceptors probably had kept Posi from spotting their approach . |
| 23 | I had a glimpse of a fair-haired girl staring wide-eyed and terrified from a tennis court , her racket held loose by her side and tennis balls scattered at her feet and , though the trees and buildings and gardens were nothing but a high-speed blur , my mind nevertheless registered with a startling clarity that the girl had been completely naked . |
| 24 | Finally I turned and started back , not conscious of anything , my mind still locked in on the impression the place had made so that I only vaguely heard a voice calling me . |
| 25 | But rigging and sails did , and once I was on deck , coiling and sorting the ropes and making notes of what I would need , I barely noticed anything else , time slipping by and my mind so concentrated on the job that I barely felt the wind force rising , small frozen particles of snow driving almost horizontally . |
| 26 | Some sick part of my mind suddenly thought of fried eggs lying thick with grease on a plate , surrounded with bacon , curled and scooped and holding little pools of fat , the outsides of the plate dotted with coagulated lumps Gf grease . |
| 27 | ‘ But my sessions gradually increased and my double-session intensified systematically until my weekends have also become involved and I am now on seven days a week . ’ |
| 28 | With my mouth still submerged in water , I resemble a surly alligator . |
| 29 | So I hobbled away , my shoulders involuntarily hunched against the thought of eyes behind me , watching . |
| 30 | I was due to attend a meeting with several other women whom I knew and felt in sympathy with , and when I arrived there , the weight of my unhappiness just rolled off me like an unwanted burden . |