Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was n't sure she could cope if he became sentimental or tried to pry into her past . |
| 2 | Some people had copies of public documents ( such as the agreement by the shaikhs of 1946 ) which they inherited or had copied for their own use and enjoyment . |
| 3 | In the mid-1860s Dostoevsky developed a marked tendency to fuss about the relation between real life and fiction , between the goings-on in the newspapers and what he was saying or wanted to say in his novels . |
| 4 | ‘ The court may , on the application of the office-holder , summon to appear before it — ( a ) any officer of the company , ( b ) any person known or suspected to have in his possession any property of the company or supposed to be indebted to the company , or ( c ) any person whom the court thinks capable of giving information concerning the promotion , formation , business , dealings , affairs or property of the company . |
| 5 | it 's always a bit a it came home to me with great a vigour and enthusiasm when I was walking round the kitting station at R A F Innsworth with a supermarket trolley getting it filled with kit and when I got to the end they handed me my dog tags and my gun , I thought what have I let myself in for because I 'd never worn dog tags before and I 'd never had a gun with live ammunition in it that got strapped to my hip and you suddenly realise , I 'm going into a real war it was quite a nerve racking experience for a few days |
| 6 | There 's a few examples here , Mother Theresa was one that sprung sprang to my mind when I was thinking it through . |
| 7 | When the gardener went to sleep , the bear would sit beside him devotedly and chase away the flies that tried to settle on his face . |
| 8 | The shock of it choked the scream that tried to form in her throat . |
| 9 | Then , with the cold air stinging your cheeks and a wind that seemed to sing through your veins , you would take your bearings . |
| 10 | As though the very lamps in the gleaming candelabra were powered by the electricity that seemed to radiate from his skin . |
| 11 | That strength of mind one could sense below the surface , that glow of authority that seemed to radiate from his skin . |
| 12 | The ragged plea hit a nerve that seemed connected to her soul . |
| 13 | We conclude then that choice even by the most responsible moral agent , however closely it resembles a pure Kantian decision for principle against inclination , is rational only if its fundamental procedure is that exposed to view by our unintellectual , intuitive romantic deciding whether to flee to Bali . |
| 14 | From behind the door that swung closed against her back , the guests heard Fru Møller tell Fru Gertlinger to put more coffee on to brew : ’ They 'll be sitting about all morning in weather like this ! ’ |
| 15 | With Jo I got right back to basics , and that meant starting with my own birth . |
| 16 | While he still had five fingers under his command he went back to the window and dropped Estabrook 's letter through , murmuring the address with a tongue that felt disfigured in his mouth . |
| 17 | Astonishing that she should remember that and not what that weird word ‘ tardis ’ that kept battering at her brain meant . |
| 18 | There was a song that kept running through her mind , for no other reason than that of the atmosphere conjured up by its opening line , which was Midnight at the Oasis . |
| 19 | She made no attempt to wipe them away and one by one they dripped from her nose and chin on to the hands that lay folded in her lap . |
| 20 | With horror in her eyes , the nurse stated that the young girl had tearfully told the physician the events that had led to her tragic situation . |
| 21 | He was behaving in a secretive , high-handed way — the way that had led to their disastrous partnership with Beador . |
| 22 | It had been too far in the future for either of them to contemplate during the whirlwind few hours that had led to their arrival . |
| 23 | The reports of the amnestic effects of protein synthesis inhibitors were first ignored , often on the same sorts of a priori grounds that had led to my initial scepticism , and only after some struggle accepted by these definers of the field . |
| 24 | The terrible bitterness against his parents that had led to his writing a book meant to shock them had faded into indifference ; yet there lingered in him an understandable vindictiveness . |
| 25 | Angrily , she dashed away the tears that had gathered in her eyes . |
| 26 | Mr Fuchs 's champions say that he made no attempt to hide the financial problems that had arisen during his previous post when he was employed by The Hague . |
| 27 | Then he was able to lift back a flap of skin each side of the incision and get to the extra body fluid that had collected around my wrist . |
| 28 | He felt that Ellice had damaged his cause among the delegation as nobody there appreciated the amount of thought and consultation that had gone into his planning . |
| 29 | But a short fur jacket that had belonged to Faith , one which fitted Kathleen and which she had looked forward to wearing the following winter , that had gone from its polythene bag in Faith 's wardrobe . |
| 30 | THE head went a long time ago , then it was the legs — but on Thursday night it was Martina Navratilova 's heart that had gone from her game . |