Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Sweet ale drinkers vigorously attacked it as that pernicious and wicked weed ) . |
| 2 | We eventually sold it in 1972 for £35 and bought an ancient wood-trimmed Morris Traveller , but no car as been as dear to us as Curtis . |
| 3 | She stood there beside him , acknowledging the marvellous presence of the terns , and as she did so the thought came to her that striped shirt , and pink tie , and Julia of the leather skirt , presumably passed them by five days a week without knowing that they did so . |
| 4 | But having put him in , he rarely consulted him on general policy issues and gave hint little role even in industrial disputes , which were still the traditional concern of the Board of Trade . |
| 5 | Bernard Coard 's How the West Indian Child is made Educationally Sub-Normal in the British School System ( 1971 ) had already given concrete expression to many black parents ' justified fears that their children were being systematically mis-classified as educationally subnormal and relegated to a ‘ special ’ education which effectively excluded them from any possibility of acquiring decent qualifications . |
| 6 | A few minutes later Branco sent a typically fiendish Brazilian free-kick dipping and swerving past the wall and Van Breukelen , who rarely encountered anything like this in his Nottingham Forest days , punched the ball clear without knowing much about it . |
| 7 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 8 | Captaining Jamaica for the second successive season , he not only led them to Red Stripe Cup triumph ( their third in five years ) , but , with the ball , he broke the tournament record with 36 wickets at 11.30 . |
| 9 | Luke watched her as she gingerly helped herself to some of the food . |
| 10 | The Russian landlords did not and could not revolt against the tsar , who alone provided them with some legitimation against a peasantry profoundly convinced that the land belonged to him who laboured it , but also of their hierarchic subordination to the representatives of God and the emperor . |
| 11 | But I swear , I only mentioned it to one person , and he 's the most trustworthy person I 've ever met . |
| 12 | Franca naturally busied herself with genuine tasks , of which there were always plenty . |
| 13 | What was it about him that constantly stirred her into such a state of agitation ? |
| 14 | Well he , he appreciated at the previous table show on the sixth of October and that was a case when it was always you know , because Danny only told me on that night that he could come . |
| 15 | The German academics very prudently ignored him for forty years ; but lately , to the disgrace of Germany , he has been discovered by an English critic . |
| 16 | Berwickshire was surveyed by John Blackadder and Ainslie only engraved it in 1797 . |
| 17 | Daphne not only welcomed me with open arms but to my surprise expressed delight at the thought of my occupying one of her spare rooms . |
| 18 | Russians in Central Asia , imperialists in India , South-East Asia , and Africa , colonizers in Australasia , and the commercial intruders in China and Japan all expressed themselves with striking forcefulness through this one architectural type . |
| 19 | The driver of the train did n't see him until it was too late , the engine literally cut him in half , he must have died instantly . |
| 20 | Michael impatiently thrust him on one side and brought out the sack . |
| 21 | She patiently gammed him for long minutes ; fondling his testicles with one hand , and exploring the cleft of his arse with the other . |
| 22 | Public and private sector schemes together covered one in eight workers in 1936 , and one in three by 1956 . |
| 23 | In a few moments she had finished it all while Tom All Alone watched her with obvious delight . |
| 24 | I only took it in social situations . |
| 25 | Her mother insisted the device was essential to stop her skin from stretching , but Jo merely saw it as another strategy to make her ugly . |
| 26 | I only knew something of all this because the girl 's mother kept in touch with me occasionally through innocent looking postcards and just the one phone call put through to our telephone me when her husband died in 1986 . |
| 27 | I only saw him for half an hour . |
| 28 | He swiftly chided himself for such thoughts ; he 'd been taught to shun physical contact , even on a platonic level . |
| 29 | After I introduced the hemp earlier the fish seemed to go off the feed so I only introduced it for four or five casts . |
| 30 | When he only bought them for three X ? |