Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew Neil is very litigious for an editor ( ‘ Randy Andy Gets a Grandy ’ , you may remember , as The Sun put it in January ) , so although Pamella told me lots of … interesting things about him , I 'd better tread carefully . |
| 2 | She despised herself for sounding so defensive , but perhaps if Luke understood he might leave her in peace . |
| 3 | Yeah well only cos Matthew told him they were . |
| 4 | So if God gave them the same gift as he gave us , who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ , who was I to think that I could oppose God ? ’ ' |
| 5 | Britain had governed Hong Kong for at least the past 25 years only because China allowed it . |
| 6 | After all , these guys are no part of my battle , most of them do n't know me , and they 've turned out in numbers only because Rufus said they had to defend their territory — but I decide this ai n't the time for that , and it would make more sense to invite these gift-horses in for coffee and what 's left of the whisky . |
| 7 | There may have been few spiritual insights in his system , but in his Principles of philosophy ( 1644 ) he did insist that bodies continue in existence only because God preserves them in being . |
| 8 | Gazza reacted angrily as he explained : ‘ I 've just been told that English journalists are saying that I threw my bib down because Zoff said I was out of the side . |
| 9 | Indeed , he has never really fitted in since Kendall brought him down from Scotland more than a year ago . |
| 10 | She rocked him gently while Bridhe told her the story , and she felt a confusion buzzing in her head . |
| 11 | Swinging back to the window , Beth was horrified to see the girl pressed against the apple tree with her arms wrapped protectively round the little boy , the two of them bent double , cringing together while Matthew flayed them viciously with the branch . |
| 12 | It was cool and dark , the stone floor scattered with rugs , and it was not long before Jenna decided it was too cool and too dark . |
| 13 | It was not long before Tony joined me in an attempt to free himself of the sizzling mushrooms . |
| 14 | After Arthur read that paralysing codswallop , the piece of business became impossible and it was only after Fred rang him up and ribbed him about it that he could manage to get the thing off his head again . |
| 15 | Long after Sarella felt they should have been slowing to cross the drawbridge into the courtyard of Castell Rocamar , they went on , the engine purring gently as they continued into the heart of the mountains . |
| 16 | Not long after Johnson saw it , a tenant farmer demolished it , wishing , perhaps , to use the stones for his own building , like the Greeks who lived near Delphi , or the old villagers of Avebury — but the landowner , presumably the same Mr Fraser , had him rebuild it . |
| 17 | ‘ No , I am not going to be sick again , ’ she added fiercely as Elise eyed her in alarm . |
| 18 | We were in the kitchen together when Caroline said I should meet Colin . ’ |
| 19 | They would be quite happy to forget all those things so long as Fedorov obliged them by carrying out certain routine tasks from time to time . |
| 20 | For as long as Caroline told you that you could , I suppose . |
| 21 | He smiled foolishly as Josh undressed him and put him to bed ; he was feeling blissfully contented , but he could n't focus on anything very clearly . |
| 22 | Arsenal could also have had a penalty when Campbell went crashing down as Forrest challenged him in the box for a Wright through-pass , but the referee dismissed their claims . |
| 23 | I 'd denied it all when Doreen confronted me , but she must have confided her suspicions to the word-processor and left the floppy disc on her bedside table . |
| 24 | Only when Harry warned her that he might collide with a passing vehicle if she continued to do that , did she finally desist . |
| 25 | As a result I undergo a bout of conscience , taking the short rod only when Odd-Knut assures me that we will eat whatever we catch , and that we will probably not catch anything . |
| 26 | He was so involved in these thoughts that when the school finally loomed into view he failed to notice it and only when Tock poked him in the side did he look up and see the gigantic sight . |
| 27 | She was sitting miserably brooding when Marguerite tapped on her door and came in as Jenna invited her . |
| 28 | But what a delight it was to come across your adventure , particularly so as Sept saw me doing 6 days canoeing the Zam with Shearwater , rafting Vic Falls 4–19 and a flip at 18 , and I spent 2 days at Kariba lake on a houseboat . |
| 29 | ‘ But I did only as Lachlan ordered me . |
| 30 | He and Sarah fell about laughing , especially when Nora said she thought it clever rather than funny . |