Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There I was being really good , ’ Leslie says , ‘ I 'd given up smoking seven months before I became pregnant to get it all out of my body . |
| 2 | But it was felt anomalous to take it all the way down to fourth XV , even under-18 , level , ’ said Hogg . |
| 3 | His support for Baghdad was resented in US legislative circles and seemed likely to cost him any future US economic aid . |
| 4 | ‘ But you seemed keen to meet me this morning , so this seemed like the best place . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I feel ashamed to tell you this , Father , but Michael has bought himself another club , this time a bordello . ’ |
| 6 | I do and I feel obliged to pass it all on . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , Travis , ’ mourned Leith , and , because she felt helpless to give him any verbal comfort , she stretched out a hand of sympathy to his arm . |
| 8 | His funeral , according to Calamy , ‘ was attended by a most numerous company of all ranks and qualities , and especially of ministers , some of whom were Conformists , who thought fit to pay him that last office of respect . ’ |
| 9 | I 've always owned apartments because I was born in a tenement in Glasgow and I like flat-life. , If he has one regret it is that government never saw fit to offer him another major job as challenging as his chairmanship of British Steel when he gave it up in 1976 . |
| 10 | NatWest Insurance Services , the Bank 's independent insurance broking Company , and Sun Alliance have worked hand-in-hand to bring you this attractive insurance policy . |
| 11 | But attempts to define breadth and balance rapidly meet a difficult problem : all subjects wish to claim compulsory status ; however , it then proves difficult to fit them all into reasonable time allocations . |
| 12 | Creggan was fascinated by this thought and wanted Kraal to tell him more about this place . |