Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though relieved , and fiercely delighted that she had apparently stopped him in his tracks , Polly was apprehensive about going back up on deck . |
| 2 | She looked disappointed , so Toby had obviously disarmed her with his usual charm , and had probably promised some expenses , too . |
| 3 | Her cheeks , which had been so white the previous evening , now had colour , and instead of sagging with exhaustion she radiated the extraordinary vitality that had so attracted me at our first meeting on the Cutty Sark . |
| 4 | They had not been shown a repeat of the film — they had merely watched it in their minds . |
| 5 | Robert 's expression had obviously convinced him of his innocence . |
| 6 | He saw several lave nets lying in an untidy heap on the sand where the fishermen had obviously dumped them in their haste to inspect their colleagues find . |
| 7 | Of course the public only wanted entertainment , but the point for intellectual observers was that the public had only wanted it on their own terms and so the story of film was the story of how the masses had dragged it down to their own level . |
| 8 | She had merely unearthed them from his office . |
| 9 | But I said , well look , I think I 'd better put it in my bag , do n't you , it wo n't do any harm there . |
| 10 | When I hate doing it is with my own records ; I 've just heard it in my head for so long . |
| 11 | In a letter to Dr Bennett in Sydney from the ‘ Upper part of the Torrens ’ on 23 June 1839 , Gould remarked , ‘ Capt. Sturt has just joined me on our way to the Murray … |
| 12 | We would be happy to provide such assistance ; however I have not included it in my fee indication since in our experience , time at this stage is very much dependent upon the skill of your lawyer and the complexity of the issues , which are not known at this stage . |
| 13 | Carole Swan has just rung me from her lovely home to tell me what happened last night in the Hotel … ’ |
| 14 | Unlike Napoleon 's mother , Elena Petrescu left no memorable quotation or hint that peasant-wisdom had perhaps already prepared her for her world to be turned downside-up again . |
| 15 | She had not felt it since her days of poverty , when she had faced the world alone ; it was something different from the polished ruthlessness that money had brought ; it was brighter-eyed , more truculent . |
| 16 | My aggressiveness towards the adults around me for putting me in such an invidious position was certainly unacknowledged and unconscious , and had my sisters not told me of my bullying tactics — which I had conveniently forgotten — it is likely that I should not be able to acknowledge it even now . |
| 17 | I had not told her about my summons to the Palace , but when I appeared in a tail coat , this unusual costume , combined with the insistence on punctuality , led her to make an accurate deduction . |
| 18 | Perhaps , thought Harry , Heather had not told him of her visit to Oxford — or what she had learned there . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've just measured it with my knitting tape . |
| 20 | I mean I they 've got a , a stall on the market , I 've seen something on the market on that stall , but they 've not got it in their size and they 'll say to you , ooh , go over to the shop , you know , and you go over |
| 21 | Political parties have somehow got it into their heads that voters want to agree with them , so put up policies with which voters will agree . |
| 22 | ‘ So it makes no sense at all for the bookseller to be buying and promoting a new title at , say , £14.99 when a book club has already offered it to its public at £8.99 — as happened last month . |
| 23 | She had felt worthless , doubly deserted , and had finally wiped him from her mind , only a faint bitterness left , a hollow , incomplete feeling she would always carry . |
| 24 | He had already told me about his girl-friend , an American student of modern dance in West Berlin . |
| 25 | He was about to skip past me and hit the bomb with the piece of wood — he had already raised it above his head and made the lunge — when I reached out and caught him round the waist . |
| 26 | was the author of the first course off the press , Human Resource Management , and he has already piloted it in his own college . |
| 27 | I had also just complimented her on her dress . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've just invited her to my engagement party , ’ he added . |
| 29 | The Secretary of State for Energy , Mr Nigel Lawson , had not fooled them with his praise for the fast reactor two days earlier ; for his action , to delay the work all but indefinitely , spoke louder than his words . |
| 30 | I know that the Government have not found it in their hearts to extend the cold-weather provision for shelters for the homeless outside London and the many districts of need throughout the country . |