Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So many made it onto land only to be turned back by some unforeseen ailment . |
| 2 | The Oxford Study reveals that of 169 people who reported receiving damages as a consequence of an accident suffered , only four received them as a result of a court order . |
| 3 | He did not want to be young again — that time had had particular and transcendent horrors — but the thought of being any older filled him with panic . |
| 4 | Although among Buddhists there was a negative connotation attached to eating beef , contemporaries thought that more and more Sinhalese included it in their diets . |
| 5 | But only stubborn pride and the knowledge that Giles 's monstrous accusations were totally unfounded prevented her from fleeing to the Ladies ’ . |
| 6 | She watched as Luke fought his own anger and then half threw him to the ground . |
| 7 | Publicly , Israeli officials criticized the resolution , but privately many declared it to be " tolerable " in that it did not recommend any concrete UN steps against Israel . |
| 8 | Mr Browning out of the kindness of his heart and because Mr Landor I believe was once his champion when no one thought anything of him brought the old gentleman to Siena and prevailed upon Mr Story his friend to take him in . |
| 9 | Anyway , no one thought anything of it at the time . " |
| 10 | And no one saw him in the street ; that little turning is almost entirely occupied by people who are out at work all day . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But no one saw him near the flat that afternoon . |
| 12 | ‘ No one saw me with her . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ No one saw us until today . ’ |
| 14 | This led to the development officer having to assume such a role herself , and occasionally this involved her in more work than she felt she could easily provide . |
| 15 | Finally — a very neat blow at any remaining opposition — he pointed out that only people who were mentally ill allowed themselves to be guided by ‘ persuasions of immediate intercourse with the deity ’ , so that prophetic or bardic inspiration was simply a delusion . |
| 16 | Poor unlucky soul ; he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time , and something very unlikely happened which by sheer chance mattered more to him than anybody else it could have happened to . |