Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a mixture of strange colours and the knitted ties felt scratchy where Gloria knotted them under Dot 's chin . |
| 2 | We say , for example , ‘ Looking at the Müller-Lyer figure , I would have said that AB was shorter than BC had I not known it to be an illusion ’ . |
| 3 | Napoleon had fought one of his early battles at Toulon , but Rose-Marie had n't realised this until Catriona pointed it out . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll be interested if Newcastle make me a good offer , ’ said the 25-year-old Ghent striker . |
| 5 | I was OK till Marie told me she was going away , and now I feel all sad . |
| 6 | Yet it was clear after Irene left him that she , too , was badly in need of a container , and finally found one in Young Jolyon . |
| 7 | Again , Pound 's admirers will protest ; and they will be right , insofar as Yeats 's account of the Cantos is n't so definitive as Olson takes it to be . |
| 8 | Hampshire players were staggered when Smith told them that Waqar had said : ‘ I 'm going to ******* kill you , you **** . ’ |
| 9 | Jenny 's daddy agreed with this when Jenny urged him to let her become a Brownie . |
| 10 | Then , suddenly , she was free as Leo thrust her away with enough force to slam her back against the window and set it rattling behind her . |
| 11 | Gooch spoke to Fletcher , who has known the couple throughout their marriage , in his hotel room yesterday morning , and the manager said later in a brief written statement : ‘ I was very saddened when Graham told me . |
| 12 | The lighthouse was fourteen years old when JTR sketched it and by 1876 fish oil had been replaced by paraffin fuel . |
| 13 | The pyramids were already 2,000 years old when Herodotus visited them in the middle of the fifth century BC , but he found the Egyptians still told tales of misery about their construction , the horrors suffered by the populace . |
| 14 | The keys of old harpsichords are indeed often seen to be hollowed ; however , what this suggests is not that Handel had been assiduously practising on it for many years , but rather that ( being at least loo years old when Hawkins saw it ) it had never had the keys replated. 19th-century scholars were intrigued by this tale , and more than a century after Handel 's death embarked on the quest to rediscover the instrument . |
| 15 | Cambridge was empty when Coleridge reached it in October . |
| 16 | Anne 's mother seemed asleep so Anne left her and went quickly to meet her friend . |
| 17 | I know five hundred and sixty was extra cos Stuart gave me two hundred short of a thousand . |
| 18 | It would be so typical if Jenny missed her while she was in the booth . |
| 19 | After the battle a prisoner warned them : " For the present you have been victorious because God willed it ; but wait a month or two and you will see Menelik 's soldiers . |
| 20 | Designed to counteract poor visibility on murky winter afternoons , it had been used in Scotland and by the visiting South Africans in 1924 before Arsenal adopted it for a public trial match three years later . |
| 21 | Seb always felt vaguely uncomfortable when Melody caught him on his own . |
| 22 | Ghorbanifar and Secord both remembered North at his wits ' end , pacing back and forth , describing how the contras were dying ; Secord was pestered continually , and admitted that he never sent the rebels ‘ as much as Ollie thought we should ’ . |
| 23 | As source of fertility , Doris dislikes the very essence of life just as much as Sweeney finds it tedious to ‘ drink this booze ’ and ‘ have a tune ’ , |
| 24 | At one point it had looked as if she might have been forced to live at home with her parents , and much as Rachel loved them she knew that arrangement just would n't work . |
| 25 | John needed Edward as much as Edward needed him , and no pope in that age would be eager to overthrow a king and encourage anarchy . |
| 26 | Hugo looked even more tired and strained than he had earlier , Harriet thought , and Sally was edgy and preoccupied though she seemed greatly relieved when Hugo told her that the insurance investigator , Tom O'Neill , had seemed satisfied with what he had been able to tell him and had not expressed any desire for a further interview or the need to come to the house to speak to Sally . |
| 27 | After struggling with one of Ruth 's imaginative scenes , I was so relieved when Basil let me attempt to paint a spray of wheat and barley stalks that I almost began to enjoy myself when he made some encouraging remark about my very tentative effort ! |
| 28 | ‘ I had n't really been involved with rugby since 1984 when I retired at Bath but I was delighted when Blaina contacted me ’ , he commented . |
| 29 | She was delighted when Louis called her his little snowflake , his little flower , little lily of the valley . |
| 30 | The old Maggie had known how to defend herself , how to keep anyone at arm 's length , but this new person delighted when Felipe touched her , glowed with languorous warmth and melted instantly . |