Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But which one of the three star signs did he belong to ? she wondered . |
| 2 | ‘ Scottish , ’ he corrected automatically , and wondered why English accents made him feel inferior , though it did n't seem to matter so much over here , there were fewer of them . |
| 3 | He love his friend , the beauty of whose manly limbs made him tremble with pleasure . |
| 4 | She had to face the handicaps of severe diabetes but , true to Greek ideals , she endured them with stoicism ; only on four occasions in 30 years did she break down under these cruel burdens . |
| 5 | The repetitive , uniform appearance of the soldier-like trees made it seem as if the car was scarcely moving , and their silent , gloomy shade gradually eased the tension created inside the Citron by the earlier near-accident . |
| 6 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |
| 7 | Willing hands helped us rescue as many of them as we could , and we got our robes out to take home and wash . |
| 8 | Indeed what exciting lessons did you have to do ? |
| 9 | What exciting lessons did you have today then ? |
| 10 | AND HOW MANY BRONZED LATIN LOVERS DID YOU FIND , EH ? ’ |
| 11 | That sense of disintegration which he always feared was now all around him ; earlier in 1938 , he had told Martin Browne that public events made him feel that he was working against time and that , in any case , the race might be lost . |
| 12 | He was a quiet man , so his sudden bellowed opinions made one jump . |
| 13 | Personal experiences made them reject the new truism that the children of fatherless families become delinquent . |
| 14 | When Sunderland came to the Manor in the league in December less than 2,000 Weirsiders saw them lose 3-0 . |
| 15 | Besides Maxham was n't dressed with a salesman 's mass-produced smartness : he was a wiry little man whose rumpled suit and gold-rimmed glasses made him look like an old-fashioned country doctor . |
| 16 | how many packets of them mushy peas did you get ? |
| 17 | Such thoughts made him feel uneasy , working for the Seven , for it was they , his masters , who permitted the existence of this place . |
| 18 | Fortunately most of the corridors were bright enough and only in a few of the darker , damper ones did he need his torch to see where he was going . |
| 19 | He anticipated and insured himself for the re-emergence of Richard Nixon from the political wilderness in 1968 , and correctly judged that Ronald Reagan would defeat Jimmy Carter in 1980 ( which was not such an inevitable result as the next eight years made it seem ) . |
| 20 | Eight weeks did he say ? |
| 21 | A five-metre scrum in the closing minutes saw them splinter the Quins pack for Charles to touch down . |
| 22 | Why do you this three hours did you see it on telly the other night ? |
| 23 | these bricks did you see those |
| 24 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
| 25 | And these possibilities made her cling to her actual existence with pleasure . |
| 26 | Celtic 's 5–1 defeat in Switzerland still irritates Brady , who admits that not even in his playing days did he take part in a recovery of these proportions . |
| 27 | ‘ Only in the last three years did it get in the way of anything and I was n't able to do any bounding ( a vital exercise in training ) or , in the end , any high jumping . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Brown 's respectful reception of these corkers made me wonder what he looks like . |
| 29 | Only when he stooped and some lire changed hands did she realise that he must be intending to walk back . |
| 30 | So after you 'd had your three children did you get pregnant again ? |