Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Melanie suddenly found it difficult to breathe . |
| 2 | Team secretary David Morris said : ‘ Ian only joined us three weeks ago because he had discipline problems at his last club . |
| 3 | Josh only gave him some whisky for his own good . |
| 4 | Moodie squeaked in support whilst Ruthven just dismissed them all with one scathing look . |
| 5 | When the Sheikha finally arrived we all rose to greet her . |
| 6 | Hick fittingly ended it all by racing in to run out Aqib , to leave Malik forlorn and a class apart , 84 not out , having steered his side to a lead of 98 , 50-odd short of what Waqar said last evening would be enough for Pakistan to defend successfully . |
| 7 | Monty Lee and Dick Cleaver both gave me generous references . |
| 8 | But Cohn-Casson also found it impossible to side uncritically with Jews , because to do so would deny modern thinking , by placing tribal loyalties above the mandates of science . |
| 9 | Natasha Kornilof : ‘ I have to say David never gave me any notes . |
| 10 | Yet the thought of being tied to Karen permanently made him sick . |
| 11 | As soon as the words were out Shannon heartily wished them unspoken . |
| 12 | ‘ Curtis kindly brought me another . ’ |
| 13 | McNab briefly revived it 13 minutes from the end with a sizzling 20-yard strike for the third goal . |
| 14 | Maggie quietly told him all that Ana had said and he heard her through in silence . |
| 15 | By this time Steven was old enough to come to terms with the divorce , but Matthew still found it difficult . |
| 16 | Sighting Benedict , Theda immediately found it difficult to concentrate on what Mrs Alderley was saying . |
| 17 | ‘ In fact he was very put out because Martinez simply told him one day at the end of last year that the agency had a new client but he , Martinez , was going to handle him personally and Ed Grainger did n't need to bother about him . |
| 18 | Brian and Tom asked me to get in touch with people for them ; Tom even gave me long phone numbers for his wife in Beirut and daughters in the States . |
| 19 | The English Copernican John Wilkins also found it necessary to revise concepts of biblical authority in order to make room for scientific propositions that seemed at odds with the plain meaning of Scripture . |
| 20 | Major Stewart also made it possible for many sports clubs to have their own ground so all sport is catered for . |
| 21 | Politically Everett and Horsley also found him intriguing . |
| 22 | Nearly twenty years later Phoebe still found it hard to suppress a little vindictive chuckle at the looks of growing shock on Jim 's face -Jim and Lisa 's Jonathan and Sue 's Alan — when they discovered that their righteousness was not enough . |
| 23 | Denny Butler nearly crushed you flat . ’ |
| 24 | During a visit to Taiwan on Oct. 27-29 , Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore also made it clear that " substantive relations " with Taiwan were to remain unchanged despite the resumption of ties with China [ see also p. 37780 ] . |
| 25 | It was she who had interviewed Meg for the Old Rectory and Meg now found it difficult to connect that confident , tweeded , slightly aggressive woman with the two gentle old people she knew . |
| 26 | Sam briefly gave it some thought . |
| 27 | At this point we were told that the WO often found it difficult to get a clear indication of what was going on until it was too late to intervene without revocation being necessary . |
| 28 | After all , Snow forcefully reminded us that science had at least an equal claim to that of the humanities in the full development of the mind of the student : they were two cultures , formally equal in status . |
| 29 | Yet Neil Kinnock nearly took them all the way . |
| 30 | Derek really gave me some stick about my ‘ fan club , on the way home in the car ; he told my mum everything , and she had a good laugh , too . |