Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where your mum lived he just lived down the corner . |
| 2 | Magistrates heard he had already been banned for life from keeping animals when an RSPCA inspection revealed he still had more . |
| 3 | That episode made me quickly learn how to repair a puncture and from that time on I always carried a repair outfit . |
| 4 | As my speed dropped I again tried to open the hood , fortunately with my left hand . |
| 5 | Labour claimed they already had ‘ very good evidence ’ that this was about to happen . |
| 6 | If that was the case , it seemed unlikely that he would ever be able to return safely to the Middle East , but three months later , the DIA showed it still had plans for him . |
| 7 | The heads of the Valuation Department guaranteed me enough work to justify my continued employment , one of my many visits taking me to the Channel Islands during the ‘ phoney war ’ , while the enemy were occupied with Russia . |
| 8 | His presence of mind saw him instantly cross to the near post , where Hateley , falling to his knees , headed emphatically home . |
| 9 | Maria shook her head angrily , aware of the futility of trying to explain the dilemma she had faced all those years ago to a man whose self-centredness precluded his ever having had to make a choice between his own interests and someone else 's . |
| 10 | What sort of instrument did you normally use ? |
| 11 | ‘ Funnily enough , that 's why the whole episode did him less harm than it might have done . |
| 12 | Three-Quarters of the 1987 electorate said they regularly watched both BBC-TV and ITV news . |
| 13 | More than a quarter of those who said they intended to vote Labour said they either agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that he has served the town well . |
| 14 | Detectives who at first treated the death of Mr Peter Jowett as murder said they now believed he was killed as he set a snare . |
| 15 | In Robert Chalmers 's recent profile of Sarah Miles on this page , the actress said she always came out of interviews sounding either sordid or bananas . |
| 16 | He was about to shut the door when again an inexplicable force on the other side pushed it firmly shut . |
| 17 | Curiously , Branson did not dislike McLaren — Malcolm 's transparently roguish charm made him hard to dislike — but he had never trusted him from the day they had first shaken hands in Leslie Hill 's office and McLaren had failed to arrive at the Virgin offices ; failed to keep his promise . |
| 18 | The boy approached him wide eyed and breathless . |
| 19 | The council told me just to stay there the weekend . |
| 20 | Spotting a void , however , the public relations person for the National Portrait Gallery steered me forward to fill it . |
| 21 | The child watched her now stand up in her stockinged feet on what had once been a fine Persian rug but was now worn in parts to its back , and unpin her hat . |
| 22 | In the east , despite Germany 's great success at the Battle of Tannenberg , Russian mobilization of her limitless manpower enabled her again to threaten East Prussia and , in the south , Galicia . |
| 23 | Perhaps you think the Creator sent you here to dispose of us as you see fit . |
| 24 | Only on his way home did he suddenly realize that illness could have prevented her from meeting him , and only when he entered the farmhouse that evening did he discover that she was dead . |
| 25 | Only in the War of Independence did they occasionally raise their voices against ‘ the rich ’ . |
| 26 | In no other household had she ever seen a slop basin , and she hated to see an eccentricity erected into a symbol of the traditionally correct . |
| 27 | One lady said she always held her breath when doing this . |
| 28 | If you remember , the girl said they always wore leather gloves . |
| 29 | The girl said she still thinks fondly of her time in England — but could not bear to stay at University College any longer . |
| 30 | They claimed that the ASEAN states which initiated the Zone plan intended it also to embrace other states located in the region . |