Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] an [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Although in fact ultra vires , taxing many men worth less than £2 on goods must have been considered justified by circumstances , for their numbers alone made them an important element in the local community . |
2 | But when I said as much to Mala , as a joke to ease the tension that still showed in her eyes , she merely called me an unrepeatable name and stalked away to her cabin again . |
3 | The melodrama of it appealed to her sense of the ridiculous , and she hastily stifled a laugh as a youth passing inside gave her an odd look . |
4 | In the Old World , Teclis and his companions arrived at the court of Magnus the Pious , where Teclis 's wise advice and mighty sorcery soon made him an invaluable councillor . |
5 | , but she told Helen , I just called her an old cow and she put the phoned down , well if she thought I said cow , well I do n't know but she went and used that . |
6 | I think about it a hell of a lot you know , not with morbid fascination but because everything that I went through gave me an inner strength and I am frightened to lose it . |
7 | I told him my story and he promptly offered me an unsalaried post as a life insurance salesman . |
8 | His paintings of Spain also made him an apt choice of artist for V. S. Pritchett 's The Spanish Temper ( 1954 ) and for Cedric Salter 's Introducing Spain ( 1953 ) for which he reworked an earlier drawing of Alicante . |
9 | It also gave them an additional incentive in their efforts to keep the peace between Plantagenets and Capetians , for they stood to lose lands and revenues through confiscation in time of war . |
10 | This not only altered the strategic military balance in favour of the rebels , it also gave them an important psychological boost . |
11 | To remember this now brought him an actual physical pain in the deeps of his body , in his intestines . |
12 | ‘ Philippe very kindly gave me an open invitation , but today I was in Alès , as the guest of Alain 's mother . ’ |
13 | Our role in defeating Germany and Japan , and in saving Greece and Turkey from Soviet take-over , undoubtedly gave us an exaggerated view of our capacity to help other peoples with quite different backgrounds . |
14 | Her agent — perhaps he was n't the best in the world — never got her an American tour which , again , might have made all the difference . |
15 | That was how she described it to herself , although what it really meant was that he took her to bed whenever he felt like it and occasionally gave her an absent-minded smile backstage . |