Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [vb past] [pron] [det] " in BNC.

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1 This really shook me this morning although I am getting over it a bit now , ’ she said yesterday .
2 Tala-Tala even had its own home-made harbour , a kind of inner lagoon in the outer lagoon , obviously a laboriously built , three-sided breakwater , in which I assumed that every stone must have been carried by hand or on rollers to afford protection for the boats it enclosed .
3 Shaw , Black and Lulu all cheekily carved their own slices of the cake before they reached the matronly age of eighteen .
4 And now , I I almost felt empty when she died , and I did n't have anybody to care for that really needed me all the time so I I , wanted to help out at a local dementia centre to try and make up for it and to pass on
5 Among the ‘ observers ’ , the Orthodox now had something more like their own teaching on Tradition than from any previous Western Council .
6 In 1967 , a progressive candidate , backed by the Communist Party , won the elections , but again the military fraudulently imposed their own candidate , The PCS split , with Salvador Cayetano Carpio opting for armed struggle .
7 With remarks like ‘ Ah well , that never did me any harm ; I have gone through worse ’ , he would brush aside his colleagues ' explorations as irrelevant , yet hint at having himself suffered as a child .
8 Although the Lancastrian and Yorkist monarchs occasionally tried to replace it with taxes assessed directly on individual incomes , resistance proved too strong , and the fifteenth and tenth still held its own in 1485 as the established form of parliamentary taxation .
9 Naturally , d'Arquebus Senior never sullied his own hands — or his eyes — by descending with bodyguards from the Spinoza estate to inspect the actual processes of manufacture by tech clans .
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