Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this he made them both some cocoa and began the first of the Just So stories . |
| 2 | In an era when the average gross weekly wage was about £10 this made them very expensive props indeed . |
| 3 | Erm , so Jan had these butties , she said oh I made them lovingly last night , tuna , mayonnaise and onion and er she said trust Viv to ring today like when I 'd made these butties ! |
| 4 | On the ramshackle desolate station at Latimer Road he met them dutifully changing cars , but instead of joining the Safeguards , found himself offering Jed and Abelard , his pet Harris hawk , a home at the School . |
| 5 | Would that explain why he asked me so few questions , took my unlikely presence and knowledge so much for granted ? |
| 6 | For instance , when Oliver Reed made his now famous appearance with slightly more than a little Dutch courage inside him , he suddenly took it into his head that he wanted to sing . |
| 7 | On 2 November 1715 , General Forster , who had now received a commission from the Earl of Mar appointing him Commander-in-Chief of the Jacobite forces in England , led his somewhat reluctant army through Longtown and Brampton towards Penrith , though the Highlanders with him had cheered up , and become noticeably more loyal , on being promised the handsome pay of sixpence [ 2.5p ] a day . |
| 8 | While working in Public Eye Ken cemented his already strong relationship with Maggie Smith and Beverley Cross . |
| 9 | With dark hair cut quite short so that it revealed his classically shaped head , a deep tan finished with some light freckles , piercing blue eyes and a mouth that was generous in laughter and very straight and sober when he was absorbed in work , he had become the standard against which any other man she met was measured … and fell short . |
| 10 | The adults were almost holding each other up but the little brownies and wolf cubs made my most appreciative audience , breaking their ranks and staggering about helplessly in the roadway while their leaders tried to restore order . |
| 11 | I made my very first TV appearance at 12 in a six-part series on Alexander Graham Bell with Alec McCowen , Francesca Annis and Judy Geeson . |
| 12 | One of the men voiced his somewhat belated fear and it was immediately taken up by others . |
| 13 | Sean had a free ticket to the Smorgasbord as he was the driver but the waiter charged me only half price after hearing where we had been . |
| 14 | But Aymer , and after him his widow , remained in possession of their Limousin and Angoumois lordships until Charles V of France confiscated them only five years before her death in 1377 . |
| 15 | True , a small band of bridge trolls tried to ambush them on one occasion , and a party of brigands nearly caught them unawares one night ( but unwisely tried to investigate the Luggage before slaughtering the sleepers ) . |
| 16 | Names beat me sometimes these days . |
| 17 | Phoebe wrapped Maggie in her towel and called Rachel to come and hold her while she found them both some clothes . |
| 18 | She phoned me earlier this week and invited me to come down here to see her land . |
| 19 | I , I , I think he described them as light granite , but , but actually of a manmade material , which is being used at the moment in Nottingham on a something called a heritage walk which takes you up to the lace market in Nottingham . |
| 20 | We had an expert down from London who pronounced them rather inferior copies — but good enough , he thought , to be worth cleaning . |
| 21 | It was as if , because she bore them so much love , the actions of her children had the power to anaesthetize some of her most cherished convictions . |
| 22 | During the revolutions of 1848 he used his seemingly impregnable position to repress rebellion in Romania , to restore Habsburg control in Hungary , and to prevent constitutional change in Germany . |
| 23 | The rumour that he used his notoriously smooth tongue to get himself recognized as seneschal of France suggests that he was aiming at Anjou , since this was a title claimed by the Counts of Anjou . |
| 24 | Microscopy has come a long way since the 1670s when Antonie van Leewenhoek used his relatively crude instruments to see for the first time the bacteria that inhabit worlds normally hidden from the naked eye . |
| 25 | Florian stopped his theatrically narrow-eyed scrutiny of Maria and grinned at Luke , who must have been telling the truth because he was all attention , no less than riveted . |
| 26 | Serjeant sustained his increasingly serious illness with signal fortitude and uproarious humour . |
| 27 | As he spoke I was very conscious of the smile which transformed his usually impassive face . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's right , Corporal , ’ I replied as I snatched my very important pass . |
| 29 | One shop assistant approached my very bored husband rather than me . |
| 30 | The well-organised Russian rearguard should have been pierced five minutes into the second half when Michael Thomas found himself just six yards out , only for Dmitri Khlestov to clear off the line . |