Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She surprised herself , the words came out , she had not thought about them or thought at all about this subject .
2 Once there , we lifted ourselves and looked at one another , both of us laughing , trudging grass-stained to the top again .
3 When the man who waited with her crept to her shoulder and whispered in her ear , as he did several times between his nervous pacings about the room , she made him no answer , and never seemed even to be aware of him , though her braced tension made it plain that nothing that passed in this apartment escaped her instant notice .
4 Michael Stroud has been treating himself and Ran with medical supplies on the aircraft .
5 His work matured , even if there is no question that he abused himself and died for that reason .
6 The scheme of the Section is that the income which the settlor by his disposition has diverted from himself and conferred on another shall be notionally restored to him while in fact continuing to be applied as he has directed .
7 The man eyed Doyle contemptuously then muttered something to himself and moved to another table and sat down .
8 Then she raised her face to me and said with sad seriousness ,
9 He turned , saw them and giggled without any of his old charm .
10 That 's right I mean this card is carried with them and looked at all every every basically everybody will look at that erm because the good quality
11 He made his way through them and turned into steep Hanover Lane .
12 Very intimate sounds were coming from the cubicles , but it was n't until the girl who had beckoned her earlier on came out of one of them and pointed to another where the door was open , and whispered harshly , ‘ Do n't you want to go ? ’ that she realised , Yes ; yes , she did want to go .
13 This was not done for imperial purposes , but once the navy had been developed it affected everything that happened in English policy .
14 She really wanted a cup of tea and she knew perfectly well that Glyn would serve her up something that looked like brown shoe polish .
15 Then , ‘ Berridge 's ’ , he said , or something that sounded like that .
16 He was pointing at Robert and yelling something that sounded like Arabic but turned out to be very emotional English .
17 Says Marcus Phipps , co-ordinator of the Orangutan Foundation 's Taiwan office : ‘ It 's a tragedy that something that began with such joy and expectation has ended so miserably . ’
18 And that was something that went on all year
19 She poked again — dug right down to the bottom and up through the shambles came something that signalled with painful clarity .
20 With a sexual history spanning more than twenty years and including fifty or sixty different partners , he regarded VD as something that happened to other people , and was somewhat surprised to develop a mild urethral discharge five weeks after first sleeping with his new girl-friend , Angela , who was younger than him and relatively sexually inexperienced .
21 For her , war was something that happened in other people 's lives , and even the most recent conflicts had failed to win her to the view that war could be , upon occasions , both right and just .
22 The star of the Professionals went on : ‘ Why you want to write about something that happened in 1977 I do n't know .
23 This was an argument between them of which she had no knowledge , but it was clearly a bitter one that rankled on both sides .
24 Oh it was a nice ball that by , shoots and scores , Notts get a second just moments after they might have conceded one at the other end , the referee unimpressed by the penalty claims but the crowd are there , with a really fine piece of finishing by Gary , nine minutes to half time and adds to the one that got in twenty four , and it 's two nil to Notts County against .
25 Oh it was one that came with this which was remmed out .
26 He served not only on the Royal Commission for the reform of Oxford , but also on the one that looked into scientific education , and drafted most of its final report .
27 Turning the corner , the bay window of the Town Hall chapel is a reconstruction of the one that existed before 1381 .
28 And while Newry did n't create many chances either they put away the one that counted after 26 minutes .
29 The longest and best of the times when things went well was the one that started in 1945 , when Greece was suddenly the only non-communist country in Europe east of Vienna .
30 The WFS data confirm earlier findings for developed countries that an infant is least likely to survive one year if its birth followed or preceded one that occurred within 24 months of its own ( Maine and McNamara , 1985 ; Acsadi and Johnson-Acsadi , 1985a , 1985b ; Maine , et al , 1985 ; Rutstein , 1983 , 1984 ) .
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