Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hated to see a dripping tap , and nothing made him angrier than Blackpool Tower blazing with , what to him was , utterly squandered energy . |
| 2 | I think I made it bigger than that ! |
| 3 | As for my eidetic happenings , I found them suspect as well ; they were so clearly a product of my own fervid visual imagination . |
| 4 | Well I found it difficult because I I still can nae play golf well , but I could play even less well then . |
| 5 | During the war , when we were doing research on strong plastics , Professor Charles Gurney used to recite this little ditty to me nearly every day and I found it depressing because wood was in fact a better material for making aeroplanes than the plastics which we could then produce . |
| 6 | I just wonder what happened to him — I alwaysrated him better than Harvey ( who was solid rather than inspirational ) . |
| 7 | So , I told her more than I should have done . ’ |
| 8 | Because although I hated it worse than anything , I did enjoy it too , once I got used to it . |
| 9 | and I heard it all before I got out of bed . |
| 10 | It was n't until she was really ill that I realised she was mine and I loved her more than anything . |
| 11 | What would happen if I loved him more than he loved me , and if he were to cheat on me one day ? |
| 12 | I treated her rotten whilst I was studying like I would n't take time off studying to go and see her or phone her when I saw her as often as I could , every weekend |
| 13 | And I knew him better than anyone . |
| 14 | ‘ I knew him better than I knew my own father , anyway . ’ |
| 15 | I think I knew him better than he thought I did . ’ |
| 16 | I thought it odd when you wrote and asked her how it had come about an' you got no answer . |
| 17 | Sir , I thought it appropriate as someone with 11 years ' tree planting and habitat management experience to pass on some hedge-cutting tips . |
| 18 | The Prince was in his cups , yet I thought it strange because the porter from Godstowe Priory did not arrive until the early hours of the morning . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I thought it best if the Director of our operations in New Orleans gave you a run down of what has taken place up to now . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ That girl of yours asked me for a statement and I gave her one-more than she bargained for , and I made her take it all down . ’ |
| 21 | Well I gave him two when he stayed here to stay er to hang er on his door and he |
| 22 | I gave him twenty so he 'd have enough . " |
| 23 | because I bought them all before t I started |
| 24 | He was a guest on This is Your Life , and I introduced him first as Peggy Ashdown , and then had to concentrate hard in case I called him Paddy Ashcroft … |
| 25 | Because I had it all when we had breakfast . |
| 26 | Nothing delighted him more than to feel twenty-five pairs of eyes fixed upon him . |
| 27 | Even Karen felt a tiny sense of loss , which amused her more than it upset her . |
| 28 | Aesthetic appearance , rarity and durability may have been the physical attributes which led particular substances to be categorized as precious , but it was the fact of being recognized as such which made them effective as symbols . |
| 29 | We must assume either that Warnie 's memory exaggerated the virulence of her hostility to Jack 's conversion , or that there was some particular thing about it which affected her more than anyone else . |
| 30 | Weak and under-nourished , he barely survived a dose of diphtheria , which left him weaker than before , and an even softer target for the torments of his three hefty brothers . |