Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , she admits , ‘ There was a part of me that secretly felt evangelism was something you should n't do to your dog , let alone a friend ’ ( Pippert 1980:16 ) . |
| 2 | That 's not true , people like you as well said Nyasha . |
| 3 | Meditation was something that only happened east of Suez and although imaging was something I did every time I wrote a book , play or did a drawing , I had not associated it with my cancer . |
| 4 | ‘ every story is based on something that actually took place . |
| 5 | I remember him scoring a few stunning goals ( eg the one that evetually put Wimbledon out of the FA cup when they were still a non league team — that was a volley was n't it ? ) but was he a particuarly good volleyer ? |
| 6 | He offered the umbrella to him and then followed suit , both were presently arranged , expectant and a little flushed , now standing on the far side . |
| 7 | Mr Macdonald said that Wolfenden was walking through a park when police started to ‘ gallop ’ after him and then took hold of him . |
| 8 | In fact she became a woman devoted to prayer " soo , while she with hir handes and spanne , she hadde a sauter set byfore hir and swetly seyde salmes ere to oure lorde " [ spanne : spun ; sauter : psalter ; salmes : psalms ] , and practised severe self-mortification . |
| 9 | I wrapped guilt around me like a thick overcoat , wallowed in it and even took shelter in it . |
| 10 | Renée loved it and so did Mandy . |
| 11 | Well I think you know , you , you , you , it was an honest answer to , to both questions , cos they did n't say do you smoke a pipe , that you smoke you know or whatever or just said cigarettes . |
| 12 | The primary division amongst critical views lies between readings of these tales as fundamentally serious moral reflections on the state of humankind despite their undeniably comic appearance , and readings of them as essentially lighthearted tales , designed to amuse rather than to disturb , elevating solaas well above sentence . |