Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered whether to tell the four of them seated there about the death of Dr Kemp , for they 'd have to know very soon anyway . |
| 2 | After that everything between them became easy for the time being . |
| 3 | Shiona could n't have agreed more , but her tone was taunting as she told him , ‘ What a pity you 'll have to wait until tomorrow to see me led away in chains . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Are you making a film ? ’ one of them asked innocently in French . |
| 5 | This was no surprise : neither of them cared much for Granny . |
| 6 | Sometimes the clerics among them met separately from the laymen . |
| 7 | There 's the kids , too — I want them got away from him . |
| 8 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |
| 9 | The destruction of the temples and the towns round them led directly to a rebuilding programme . |
| 10 | Until recently , the method by which Hébrard made the casts , enabling him to preserve the original waxes ( most of them owned today by Paul Mellon ) has been shrouded in mystery and the precise number of the edition has remained uncertain . |
| 11 | a very uncomfortable thing for me occurred — There were quite enough queens to register Casanova impotent , and yet every one of them shied away from me as if I had the plague . |
| 12 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 13 | I seemed to live two inches behind the front of my skin , that part of me created wilfully by my lovers . |
| 14 | Then the three of them swam away into the deeper water under the headland . |
| 15 | Like everyone else , I became equally at home with both systems , and I was doubly fortunate in that while I was still a student the metric system changed from being ‘ cgs ’ based ( centimetres , grams , seconds ) to ‘ MKS ’ based ( Metres , Kilograms , Seconds ) . |
| 16 | After mentioning some of the New Age practices and beliefs , I asked again for a show of hands from those who knew friends and neighbours who were involved . |
| 17 | I asked again about the truck . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ? |
| 19 | Yet again I gazed intently at the lighthouse , the beach , the palapas , the palm trees and the reef . |
| 20 | He walked off and I gazed blankly at the cricket match . |
| 21 | I gazed across at him , willing him not to wreck this moment . |
| 22 | I gazed across to the rising ground beyond the farm buildings . |
| 23 | Move along ! " bawled the orderly , and as I shuffled away I gazed appealingly at the white-coated figure . |
| 24 | I gazed quickly around the room and sighed bitterly . |
| 25 | I shied away from the very American-sounding compliment . |
| 26 | I had only known , positively though without details , that there was no help and no comfort forthcoming from the source , and that being so I shied away from any mental flashbacks which could only make me more unhappy and ashamed . |
| 27 | I shied away from the prospect . |
| 28 | He twisted the throttle , 20 knots or more , skimming across the waves , while I clung tightly to the gunwhale , and Graham sheltered his daughter , Abigail , from the spray . |
| 29 | I clung hard to a sapling with my eyes closed , waiting for things to get better , telling myself that if I fell down again it would be much much much worse . |
| 30 | I tottered across to a cottage on the edge of the loch and asked for a pot of tea and a bite to eat . |