Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right FIGURE 4 Over a lightly brushed area of red oxide I hurriedly scumbled cadmium red deep using a flat hog haired brush . |
| 2 | No matter how realistic and cautious I tried to be about changes at home , in my heart I only wanted reassurance that things would be as before . |
| 3 | Apart from relief of intestinal obstruction he also experienced relief of dysphagia that supported the hypothesis that oesophagitis had developed secondary to vomiting in the presence of large bowel obstruction . |
| 4 | However , while I was in hospital , I had seen a boy I vaguely knew die of leukemia in the bed opposite me . |
| 5 | ‘ During the campaign I never watched telly or saw my family and I never really knew what was going on in the election , ’ said his brother Andrew , 26 . |
| 6 | That was why as a child I often had anxiety dreams about her . |
| 7 | In exchange they eagerly proffered jade adze blades as well as weapons and articles of clothing . |
| 8 | One of the first results could be a speeding-up of drilling at the huge oilfield it recently discovered west of Shetland , according to John Browne , chief executive for worldwide exploration operations . |
| 9 | National growth was uneven ; in the north of England it quickly took root although in the northwest and in Wales it grew more slowly ; it was always weak in Liverpool . |
| 10 | But where he did recognise the private sector he merely saw conflict and not the contradictory unity . |
| 11 | ‘ In some cases she plainly injected insulin . |
| 12 | Much of the extensive heath country of Lincolnshire was successfully enclosed and converted into good arable land , but between Sleaford and Lincoln , Arthur Young saw , in the 1790s , ‘ hundreds of acres in the veriest state of waste I ever saw land , whether appropriated or unappropriated , in this kingdom . |
| 13 | Yours was the only group I ever taught maths — a stop-gap teacher for a year . |
| 14 | A quick hunt through the cupboards and the fridge revealed a good supply of food , but for the moment she only wanted coffee . |
| 15 | They played together a couple of evenings every month , but after that first time by mutual consent they never made love in her house , any more than they did in his . |
| 16 | We used to have an hour and a quarter fro lunch , half an hour for tea , and we used to er have to get the principal 's tea ready and in the midmorning they always had tea made of milk . |
| 17 | During his time as Head Gardener he planted several M. soulangeana and after the Second World War he also planted M. kobus , M. mollicomata , M. sinensis , M. stellata and M. acuminata . |
| 18 | For reasons to be explained , the original legislation was found to be defective , and was amended in 1976 ( and placed into the legislative context of the Public Order Act 1936 ) , but even after amendment it still gave rise to complaints that it fell short of the aspirations of its promoters in its effects . |
| 19 | During this period he also studied painting under Charles Lucy [ q.v. ] in London and Paris , and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1849 , 1850 , and 1851 . |
| 20 | Towards the end of this period he also became chairman of the Port of London Authority . |
| 21 | Capitalizing on this patriotic British theme he soon manufactured furniture made of native woods and decorated with elaborate brass inlay based upon native plants , depicting hops , for instance , instead of grapes . |
| 22 | For twenty-five years he painstakingly amassed evidence to support it . |
| 23 | I do n't know if he left the King 's Troop and went into the First er Regiment Royal Artillery , but erm I went to Germany and of course we just lost contact . |
| 24 | His hand , which had insinuated itself beneath the cover , was sending her thoughts in an entirely different direction , and as his warm palm began rubbing gently across her back she totally lost track of what he was saying and had to desperately drag her mind back as he continued . |
| 25 | From this slimly positive sign she instantly gathered optimism , as it was her nature to do , and , forcing aside despair , proceeded to concentrate on the only course of action , she sensed , that could save her . |
| 26 | Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee . |
| 27 | Erm of which there , of course is erm impeccable logic er you might think well there are n't any coal mines in Didcot , which of course there are n't , but Didcot is actually a railway junction as I mentioned and in fact it 's on the main line from the midlands erm and they can get coal in from the Midlands very easily er it 's on the main line er also from South Wales and they 're getting co getting coal from , from er South Wales in the days when they built Didcot power station they still had coal m m mines in South Wales , so this was an obvious place to locate a large coalfired power station . |
| 28 | Again , when civilized states extended their frontiers they frequently took occasion to prospect for and exploit sources of precious substances and most notably of gold . |
| 29 | Let Clan Diarmaid rue the day they ever raised hand against Clan Gillian ! ’ |
| 30 | It said that during the quarter it greatly improved product delivery time to its resellers , and recorded the highest volume quarter in its history . |