Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether he was still staring out of the window at the storm or watching them made no difference . |
| 2 | Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together . |
| 3 | a ) Heres that book you asked me to bring ( The fact that you asked me to bring it is not new. ) b ) Ive got to take the dog for a walk ( ‘ For a walk ’ is by far the most probable thing to follow ‘ I 've got to take the dog ’ ; if the sentence ended with ‘ to the vet ’ the tonic syllable would probably be ‘ vet ’ . ) |
| 4 | Nothing moved , but the world tilted , and she looked down into eyes that registered he had felt it too . |
| 5 | Ruth was used to feeling afraid in his presence ; but now the fear that touched her seemed more on his account than on her own . |
| 6 | The Spanish off-road course had a slippery surface , rather than seriously deep mud , but with a tyre-scrabbling incline that needed everything locked , it was sufficient to play the variations and show off the advantages . |
| 7 | If she stayed here , there would always be the torment of running into Rourke , and stirring up all the pain and unhappiness that loving him had brought . |
| 8 | He reviewed the massed ranks of the uniformed SA and SS on the Langemarkt and made violently anti-Polish speeches from the Artushof and from the Zoppot Cure-House — speeches that left what remained of the opposition staggered at his vehemence and fearful of the consequences . |
| 9 | That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so . |
| 10 | In an effort to combat the isolation and fear I felt at the time , I sought out a number of parents in similar situations to my own ; we had to create our own support systems . |
| 11 | ‘ To my grief and surprise I found her mind bowed down to the very depths of painful disquietude , unable to realise the presence of her Saviour , and harassed with the fiery darts of the great Enemy … |
| 12 | The sergeant produced his warrant card and said he wanted to ask some questions . |
| 13 | Derek Malcolm , The Guardian 's film critic , agrees that there has been a gradual shift in perception and suggests it began as movie moguls realised women were no longer being ‘ taken ’ to the movies by their menfolk , hot on the trail of Rambo . |
| 14 | Erm and then what he did was , he they went through it together and he showed her what to do and she followed him and and as she did things right he praised her and gave her feedback and said she 'd done it correctly and then then when there were things did n't understand she questioned him and then he clarified her . |
| 15 | Gedge joked to music writers that he had accidentally played the original Orange Juice song at the wrong speed and thought it sounded great . |
| 16 | While S & N has announced itself ‘ perfectly happy ’ with the way things have gone since the switch and said it had been successful , some observers are convinced that operating costs have increased substantially and cite political rather than cost or environmental reasons behind the decision . |
| 17 | It was Amanda who , beaming like a Cheshire cat , wiggled her fingers at Grunte in a familiar greeting and waved what looked like an autograph book in his direction . |
| 18 | But when she looked back at him he saw the hatred in her eyes and knew he had been right . |
| 19 | She closed her eyes and kept them closed for quite a while , and when she opened them again it seemed as though she had gathered herself together . |
| 20 | Then one night in an alleyway he witnesses a murder and finds himself lumbered with the dead man 's child . |
| 21 | He had been found asleep on the floor of a taxi outside a night club and claimed he had hired it for the evening as his bedroom . |
| 22 | All seven families with a transient result were interviewed to gain their perspective of the programme and ensure they had no lingering doubts about their sons ' health . |
| 23 | This love of secrecy may have been a reaction to the rapid expansion of Britain 's formal power towards the end of the nineteenth century , an attempt to preserve the spirit of the frontier and deny what had become the unexciting obviousness of British dominion . |
| 24 | ' … which he thought he might have been wearing that afternoon and then changed his mind and said he had n't , ’ continued Harris , unperturbed by the interruption . |
| 25 | For example if you 've changed your mind and decide you did n't want the goods or if you had damaged the goods and the shop offer you a credit note , I think you really have to accept that with good grace , cos it is really your fault . |
| 26 | Corman called ‘ It 's a wrap ’ on Friday evening , and realized that he still had almost forty-eight hours ' usage left on the warehouse and sets he had rented for The Raven . |
| 27 | ‘ Put the Bronica in my rucsac and claimed it went down with you . ' |
| 28 | But first , Nicholas walked uphill back to the manor with Loppe , and in the office there read the ledgers and saw what had been done . |
| 29 | Neck and spoke they raced for mile after mile , the horse only drawing breath to ensure Ian was there to open the gates along the way , and to use Ian as a guide when Sally got lost in the maze of the Clubhouse car park ! |
| 30 | It was as if , all of a sudden , all the hidden anxieties and fears she had hidden so expertly were now overwhelming her . |