Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a co-ordinator 's retired or resigned who do you actually communicate with to find out if the group wants to continue playing |
| 2 | The problem is that when a parent is feeling depressed or overwrought it is difficult for them to think of alternative strategies . |
| 3 | Profoundly deaf pupils will almost certainly need modification of the speaking and listening component , especially if they were born deaf or lost their hearing before acquiring language . |
| 4 | The restoration of the monarchy and its patronage proved a particularly valuable source of wealth and position to those who had remained faithful or changed their allegiance with a careful eye to the future . |
| 5 | Whether your hair is naturally curly or permed it needs extra special care to keep it in tip-top condition . |
| 6 | For the widowed or divorced there was no difference between those with and without children nor any significant trend with the number of children . |
| 7 | Obviously most of them had them marked or had their name on them , so that they would have the same er the same set of tools every day . |
| 8 | even though there was a bit of grey in it , it was the , really the brown that predominated it , I said it , it , the grey suite would n't go with it |
| 9 | Not surprisingly , considerable pressure was put on the Conservative government to take some action to cope with the problem , though it was neither clear nor agreed what the basic problem was . |
| 10 | It was not merely the weather that made the Decoy Lodge feel gloomier , more shadowy than Louisa remembered , not merely the damp that left her bones so chill . |
| 11 | The stench of damp that enveloped her was noxious ; she tried to take short breaths . |
| 12 | Mike dragged me clear and carried me into the house . |
| 13 | The servant fought his way clear and delivered their drinks ; George grunted , Agnes smiled and shifted carefully on the sofa . |
| 14 | She hopped clear and opened her wings and in one sudden jump was up on the bare branch . |
| 15 | Well , yes I mean he says yes , yes he does say about that , he says that he has no doubt that there was a historical and said there were two Moses . |
| 16 | She lifted off a heavy daily and brought it to me . |
| 17 | I have no idea how I was , although Jack and my relieved director assured me that the audience had just been coolly first-nightish and we , the cast , had stayed calm and thawed them into real pleasure and ultimate Rejoycing . |
| 18 | At this moment it was difficult to recall how quiet , calm and determined she had been . |
| 19 | She was quite calm and told me to get a watch and try and time how far apart the pains were . |
| 20 | The pirates could not believe it , but Silver remained calm and changed his plan quickly . |
| 21 | Kambiz Atabai , a slim , good-looking and asked him if he would share his secret and Dr Shakhar said by all means . |
| 22 | She slid the cup into a pocket of her waterproof and raised her head . |
| 23 | As the crowds listened to Christ 's unconventional preaching and observed his miracles they acknowledged him as sent from God . |
| 24 | The Queen delighted in his preaching and made him Dean of Westminster . |
| 25 | What the Henry Pratt books ( there is a second in print , Pratt Of The Argus , and a third imminent ) have in common with the rest of Nobbs ' work is his love of running gags and bizarre symmetry , an interest which made Perrin so relentlessly funny and reached its peak in the near-geometric farces of the two Bit Of A Do series . |
| 26 | He laughed loudly at things that were n't funny and littered his English with expletives to appear more at home in the language . |
| 27 | He laughed as if I had said something annihilatingly funny and kneaded my hand gently against his thigh . |
| 28 | I put off going to the doctor but I wish I had n't because my GP immediately knew what was wrong and told me about carpal tunnel syndrome . |
| 29 | He 'd always been so clean before , so we knew there was something wrong and took him to the vet immediately . ’ |
| 30 | Indeed , Hamilton suggested crisply that they had got it wrong and left it at that . |