Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supposing one of them got carried away and hit the old boy too hard . |
| 2 | Nothing has done more than the cruise missiles to divide the peoples of the Atlantic alliance . |
| 3 | Warwickshire have a number of dual-purpose players and no-one has done better than Dermot Reeve , with 2,525 runs and 73 wickets in the last two championship seasons . |
| 4 | I should perhaps add that I was not a member of the committee who heard these appeals in the first hearing since I became involved only when your Lordships who sat in the first hearing suggested a second hearing under my chairmanship and accordingly I have not been asked to consider this matter apart from the discussion of the extracts from Hansard which have been put before us in this appeal . |
| 5 | I had not even finished writing this before I got carried away and bought myself another Christmas present — a Synodontis angelicus . |
| 6 | I 'd heard somewhere that you ca n't stop it after the end of the third month . |
| 7 | It was time to retire , to return to England-land , to the genteel sheltered accommodation I 'd fled more than a decade earlier . |
| 8 | Yet if I 'd known then that the cup was Undry … |
| 9 | I only wish I 'd known before that he was so ill . |
| 10 | He adds sadly : ‘ It 's impossible for me to go on a quiet date as I get recognised everywhere and asked for autographs . ’ |
| 11 | Meanwhile you and I get paid worse than his housekeeper and the fucking union writes to ask me to send them money ! |
| 12 | I heard no more from the Head ( could someone have come worse than me ? ) and also I found myself in a new dorm filled with chaps who were in the top classes at school . |
| 13 | I feel frustrated rather than embarrassed , because I want to prove myself to Celtic fans . |
| 14 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |
| 15 | Erm Foxes in the Garden with the R S P C A photos I had rejected yesterday as well , so that was a good day . |
| 16 | One beautiful face in a shop brought into my mind an undraped statue I had seen somewhere and we blushed together . |
| 17 | I had grown more and more tired , energy seeped away and I had begun to sweat at night . |
| 18 | I had become more and more interested in the business world , going back to work at the bank in Newcastle during my vacations , so I was looking for a general business career . ’ |
| 19 | I started searching around the shower area as I had planned earlier and immediately heard a signal indicating a quarter-sized coin , 3in down . |
| 20 | Apart from that , I had said more or less what I wanted to say in a way that I thought Belinda could not fail to admire . |
| 21 | I was convinced I had done badly and was very depressed when during the practical exam university lecturers came around to talk to other people but not to me . |
| 22 | Looking back on it I could not figure out what went wrong as I had done exactly as instructed but nobody had ever really said much about fallen trees or currents and especially not in such a small part of the river . |
| 23 | For the first time in all my life I had done right because I wanted to do right . |
| 24 | I concluded that I had done enough and was getting ready to sidle away when a servant pushed a large bucket of water into my hands and I realised that , under Santerre 's direction , a human chain had been formed . |
| 25 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 26 | Among others there was the Scottish advocate ( and future QC and Conservative MP ) Nicholas Fairbairn , a sartorial dandy with a razor-sharp mind whom I had met once or twice in the Borders . |
| 27 | A nice man I had met more than once before . |
| 28 | When Eritrea achieved de facto independence last year , 80 cars went from DC to New Jersey to the home of the veteran Eritrean labour leader Woldeab Wolde Mariam , whom I had met more than 20 years ago in exile in Aden , and brought him to the Washington community church , Saint Selassie . |
| 29 | The last eight miles had been the worst up to that point , and yet I had gone faster than ever before . |
| 30 | I felt so sad but if I had gone there and seen her , how would I have felt ? |