Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among those who did receive grants , moreover , most received them in areas where they already had influence . |
| 2 | Among those who did receive grants , moreover , most received them in areas where they already had influence . |
| 3 | In 1662 the family moved to Middelburg in the Netherlands , where they openly professed Judaism . |
| 4 | Well , they broke through on about a forty mile stretch Where they really gained ground is up towards Arras , they made about five miles there , and down around St Quentin . |
| 5 | Gales and hard winters followed , including one severe ice-storm which welded coppiced small-leaved lime branches to the ground — where they promptly took root . |
| 6 | However , although there is no indication of the source of 10 marks payable to Roger Blomfeld of Buxton , Norfolk ( where he also owned land worth 13s. 4d. ) , the £1. 9s. 8d. assigned to Thomas Parker , a servant of the king at Elmley Lovett , Worcs. , could well have been a payment from the manor , which was a royal estate , and Parker himself did not live there . |
| 7 | In 1850 , as a newly appointed house surgeon to St George 's Hospital ( where he later became lecturer in anatomy ) he presented a paper to the Royal Society ‘ On the development of the optic and auditory nerves ’ . |
| 8 | He joined the leisure and later the entertainments division , where he later became director , with responsibility for such venues as Talk of the Town , Belle Vue Zoo , Blackpool , Eastbourne and Yarmouth piers and a caravan park . |
| 9 | The article sent the leading RISC analyst Andrew Allison to his keyboard where he promptly made hash of its arguments . |
| 10 | In 1692 he published a Pharmacologia , an early work on drugs and medicines , which showed his wide botanical knowledge and where he gratefully acknowledged help from Sloane , Ray , Sherard , Doody and Petiver . |
| 11 | Not that I ever drank beer . |
| 12 | Presumably because I was too young , and because life was so full in other ways that I never had time or any real reason to question it . |
| 13 | I have already stated that I discovered death at the age of six , and also that I never considered suicide as a possible course of action . |
| 14 | The day flew by so quickly that I hardly noticed evening stealing in on crimson wings . |
| 15 | A rifleman hit two men crouching near the Colonel , who later wrote that ‘ this was the first time in warfare that I truly felt fear . |
| 16 | ‘ So I just went a-front there with my milk and vinegar ; rubbed it in my palm and fingers ; and then I rubbed it inside the horses ’ nose and then round their nostrils . |
| 17 | He took her virginity with care , giving her so much ecstatic joy in the taking that she scarcely noticed pain . |
| 18 | She felt guilty , but she could say with a clear conscience that her business was so demanding that she hardly had time to think of Northumberland although , in truth , as her successes and problems in Italy had increased , there seemed less and less reason to return to Nora . |
| 19 | She was so absorbed in the task that she hardly noticed time passing . |
| 20 | In place of these two extremes , we need to be like Mary , Jesus ' mother , who received the word within her , so that she actually gave birth to the Word of God . |
| 21 | He kissed her with suppressed violence , then let her go so abruptly that she almost lost balance . |
| 22 | Her passion leapt to meet his , and she clung to him , her mouth dragging on his in a meeting so inflamed that she almost lost consciousness as dizziness swept through her brain . |
| 23 | But Kay has admitted ( in her charming Ivy and Stevie ) that she sometimes had difficulty in deciphering her notes , and that Ivy was often mysterious and contradictious . |
| 24 | She was single-minded and uncompromising in her work , so that she sometimes provoked exasperation among her colleagues , a feeling immediately tempered by the admiration they felt . |
| 25 | As she approached , Clara thought that she still looked cross , but she could see that whatever annoyance was there was not directed against herself . |
| 26 | When she looked up the mountainside , as if searching for help there , I realized that she still had fear of me , little knowing the true state of affairs , and felt herself like an animal in a trap . |
| 27 | And when Charles discovered that she too enjoyed painting watercolours they grew even closer . ’ |
| 28 | Rumour says , my dear , that you actually took tea with Mr Swinton ! ’ |
| 29 | I sort of sprang it on you back in the studio , so you hardly had time to think . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The British mandate censor , a Jewish man called Arieh Siev — a nice fellow although we never saw eye-to-eye — refused to let us print . |