Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | mm , only made it Christmas |
| 2 | My own ‘ anthropological history ’ in this liminoid phase became extended over eight years , until 1974 , and not only gave me time to reflect on many of the controls we were required to impose , but also to consider the nature of the social harm these unworldly folk devils and ‘ drug fiends ’ were actually causing ; for established society has never really known how to handle the unworldly easily . |
| 3 | This not only gave me access to the early morning shot of the Opera House from Farm Cove , but also a marvellous image of the disk of sun rising behind the naval boats in the strangely named harbour . |
| 4 | This not only gave me access to the early morning shot of the Opera House from Farm Cove , but also a marvellous image of the disk of sun rising behind naval boats in the strangely-named harbour . |
| 5 | And that scream of 'ers — fair froze me blood , it did ! ’ |
| 6 | Opposition critics claimed that since the practice of making people " disappear " was mostly carried out by the military , the new law effectively granted it immunity from future prosecution and the power to abduct anyone with impunity . |
| 7 | His natural ability with figures soon earned him promotion to a trusted position , where he became responsible for most of the financial undertakings of the firm . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm saying that not even a ten-year-old would fall for the line of crap you just had me feed Kevin . ’ |
| 9 | All this messing around with Changez I enjoyed , and I soon considered him part of my family , a permanent part of my life . |
| 10 | And I always learnt mine parrot fashion using |
| 11 | James at once poured him wine from a fresh jug and refilled his own glass and Cameron 's . |
| 12 | ‘ C'm on boy ’ he ordered ( he always called me boy ) ‘ I want a fish . |
| 13 | ‘ Me and Gloria , we always called him Baby . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We always called it It . |
| 15 | Did n't matter if it was stone cold , still took it sip by sip … ’ |
| 16 | The story quickly took me captive . |
| 17 | Those committeemen who once viewed him obselete , and urged his sacking , have been afflicted by a creeping reverence . |
| 18 | Lindsay always gave him hell . |
| 19 | It was an expression that still gave him pleasure and he would have used it to describe his own limited grasp of the subject , but it would have been wasted on the sparrow-sized man across the big desk from him . |
| 20 | Small things still gave us hope and the rare glimpses of colour we saw took on an almost spiritual quality . |
| 21 | The power and wide-ranging applications of mathematics quickly gave it recognition as a discipline in its own right , whose theorems have now been brought to bear on problems in every field of knowledge . |
| 22 | ‘ I mean , if he ever gave me AIDS I 'd give him a Colombian necktie — ’ |
| 23 | It still left me feeling sickened by the whole human race , until some devoted parent , husband , wife , or adult child of an elderly parent put things right for me by spending days and nights at a bedside . |
| 24 | Prior 's intellectual energies still left him time for his family and for a wide circle of friends , colleagues , and pupils . |
| 25 | I nearly got it mum . |
| 26 | She later made him keeper of the musical archives of the Italian court . |
| 27 | He was cut short by a shove in the back that nearly made him overbalance and fall down the stairs . |
| 28 | The Swiss , Spanish and Belgium governments also promised him support . |
| 29 | She also fetched me tea and refreshment from one of the marquees . |
| 30 | ‘ I also showed him proof of the cover-up I uncovered , ’ said Mr Ward ( 60 ) , from Brockley , near Bury St Edmunds , Suffolk . |