Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lacuna slowly shook her great head . |
| 2 | Terry , whose gentleness of heart so melted my own that I helped him sell his newspapers outside factories , on picket lines and outside East End tube stations at seven-thirty in the morning , was encouraging . |
| 3 | By the following month , furthermore , Reagan 's rating had dropped ten points , where it broadly stayed during the next three months while the administration successfully defended its budget-cutting package and won a stunning endorsement of the tax reduction measure . |
| 4 | As a result , the reorganization only reached its final stages in the summer of 1977 . |
| 5 | His alcoholism apparently alienated his former writing partner ; his admirable disinclination to offer any public denial of his homosexuality may have compromised his potential as a solo performer ; and he battled for several years with the throat cancer which finally killed him . |
| 6 | But her fear only provoked him further and he turned + slapped first Jo , and then her solidly across the face — a thing he had never done before . |
| 7 | Green eyes stared back at her from beneath dark slanting brows but with her short hair that accentuated her elfin face she somehow felt the swimsuit only made her slight figure look even more boyish . |
| 8 | The police force generally left them alone , providing they kept the fighting amongst themselves . |
| 9 | My American agent once got me some stuff placed in Reader 's Digest . ’ |
| 10 | Kindness always moved her more than anything else . |
| 11 | Lynsey quickly remembered her fictitious ‘ dinner engagement ’ and said she would take her own car and follow him . |
| 12 | THE POUND yesterday posted its steepest one-day fall in more than three years , sinking almost 6 pfennigs within a few hours . |
| 13 | Lafaille rapidly reached his previous high point and bivouac , and recovered the sleeping bag he had been forced to abandon . |
| 14 | This ambition always had its logical weaknesses ; its impracticability is now manifest . |
| 15 | One glance also breached his initial prediction . |
| 16 | This domestic tragedy probably hastened his own death from heart disease , 25 March 1890 , in Worthing . |
| 17 | One can recognise easily why so many later European commentators extolled classical Greece as the model for their contemporaries since the material conditions of these changes from rural to urban , from aristocracy to bourgeoisie , and from oligarchy to proto-democracy similarly characterised their own social situation . |
| 18 | In the meantime the dinosaurs ' lineage probably reached their optimum size for metabolic efficiency . |
| 19 | The UFD also made it clear that , since accepting the position of Minister of Equipment and Transport , Mohamed Ould Lamar had ceased to be a member of the UFD . |
| 20 | The club also played its first match in October 1908 ( at Henley ) , against Peppard Golf Club at its suggestion . |
| 21 | Kraal who had been Woil 's greatest mocker and enemy now became his greatest friend , for he admired Woil 's cunning and quick thinking , and grieved to see him so downcast . |
| 22 | Pound then made his own attempt , ‘ having the watchman talk nigger ’ , and the project was still on the go in December 1921 . |
| 23 | The defendant initially bore his own costs , but was legally aided from 5 July 1990 , before the conclusion of the proceedings at first instance , until the disposal of the appeal by the House . |
| 24 | The fact that Kent headed this unworthy league by an ample margin suggests that the industry there hastened its eventual downfall by inferior work . |
| 25 | To counteract the effect of Lucenzo 's sensuality , she tucked her woolly scarf more firmly around her neck then dragged her pom-pom hat further over her reddening ears . |
| 26 | She lay naked to the waist , as the Egyptian playfully kissed her sweet bubbies , and teased her cute pink nipples erect with her lithe tongue . |
| 27 | Dexter had no idea why , except that the superintendent sometimes found it useful to revisit the scene of a crime alone and absorb its atmosphere at different times of day or night . |
| 28 | The La Paz Police Force nobly sacrificed its traditional bonfire party and patrolled the wintry hillsides — some sneakily in plain clothes — to enforce law and order in pagan territory . |
| 29 | Gianna recently made her first visits as Animateur in Italy , Portugal and Spain , and she sent us her initial impressions : |
| 30 | The priest quietly resumed his kneeling posture . |