Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Sweet ale drinkers vigorously attacked it as that pernicious and wicked weed ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What was it about him that constantly stirred her into such a state of agitation ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I only saw him for half an hour . |
| 9 | She would be hurting no one because , even if Rune had lied and was still involved in some emotional way with Lotta , the Swedish girl had already assumed they were lovers and obviously accepted them in that role without suffering undue pain . |
| 10 | Again , the police ( who had only a marginal role in enforcing the new order , and who sometimes perhaps accepted it with less than utter enthusiasm ) were more likely to have diverse tribal allegiances in the larger settlements nearer the cities or in strategically more significant places . |
| 11 | We only had it at half past twelve . |
| 12 | We a we already asked him about that actually . |
| 13 | I was dead happy there and then , all of a sudden , they came one day and just moved me to another home . |
| 14 | This girl just told me about this Polo factory outlet up near Canada … you can get a $200 knitted sweater for , like $20 — that 's outrageous ! ’ |
| 15 | And the fact is Jimi just turned me on more than anybody else , for his music . |
| 16 | If I did that with my rings , just threw them like that , he 'd go absolutely apeshit ! |
| 17 | I did n't know there were a video , I says get your he just tuned it on any channel , I says get your remote control for your telly I says and click |
| 18 | I just willed him with all my mind to believe me . |
| 19 | Used in conjunction with the other clues given in the text and the illustrations , this information soon guided me to some very productive search areas . |
| 20 | He scarcely knew her after all . |
| 21 | Although Richard Baxter did n't die of tuberculosis , it nevertheless left him with much bodily weakness and pain for the remainder of his life . |
| 22 | Cos I had him , I just , I just had him like that first sixteen points and we could n't play properly cos no one won . |
| 23 | ‘ And he just left it at that ? ’ |
| 24 | You just lifted them you and you just set them like that . |
| 25 | The pool was large for a private one , lying at the bottom of a vast expanse of immaculate lawn and surrounded by a high yew hedge which effectively hid it from all directions ( unless you were on a horse or a double-decker bus ) . |
| 26 | She liked him and deeply respected him for that . |
| 27 | I think she felt awkward , because she quickly helped me to more raspberry-fool . |
| 28 | ‘ I hardly recognised you in that sharp gear ! ’ she teased him . |
| 29 | Er can I er I I started to comment on about the er er bank accounts and which are y you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table er I think we would go further but er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names on all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of bonus of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would have a at least alerted these financial institutions as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension funds and they still ignored it in that that w case that they did , but er they would have not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension fund assets . |
| 30 | It then grabbed the food and quickly ate it before any of the others could steal it . |