Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Padre found that they even sometimes flew into his throat while he was reading or praying with a dying man . |
| 2 | I found that I no longer felt for Jean-Claude but for myself . |
| 3 | Here also the infinitive evokes an event which actually occurred but which very well might not have . |
| 4 | Many airlines are so confused or battered that they no longer have anything resembling a clear business strategy . |
| 5 | And then , looking around him , he realised that he no longer knew where he was . |
| 6 | ‘ I cried a lot coming out of my teens , ’ says Charlotte , now 22 , ‘ because I realised that I no longer had an excuse to play out the role of mother 's beloved charge . |
| 7 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |
| 8 | During the strike Donald Trump , a New York real estate magnate , announced that he no longer wished to purchase Eastern 's shuttle services to Boston from New York and from Washington DC . |
| 9 | She could never remember just how the rag business started , but she recollected that she no longer went three times a week to the paid school . |
| 10 | The magazine , through his influence , became more regularized ; readers noted that something perilously close to marketing had intruded into its anarchy . |
| 11 | The report noted that they not only provided care for children but enabled teachers to attend to others and also that the aides themselves carried out important educational work under the teacher 's direction . |
| 12 | Only a few years before , Camille had been acutely concerned about her mother 's appearance , sometimes refusing to be seen with her in public , but now it seemed that she no longer minded : she had expropriated from Scarlet 's wardrobe those few articles that she felt would suit herself and had thereafter left her mother to her own devices . |
| 13 | Later , when the Ashbury Railway Company ran into financial problems , they declared that they no longer wished to be bound by their contract with Riche . |
| 14 | I threw that one back even faster , because in that moment a new shock struck at me — proving that bad things do come in threes . |
| 15 | I do not know whether my hon. Friend read Gavyn Davies 's recent article , which showed that what most greatly influences investment is availability of markets and demand , and that running costs come very much second to those factors . |
| 16 | Her expression showed that she no longer had any time for jokes . |
| 17 | Congressmen , relieved that they no longer have to shed their reputations in fighting over Nicaragua , are quite keen to find the $300m that is seen as an inaugural present for Mrs Violeta Chamorro on April 25th . |
| 18 | He was informed , by the captain Alan Butcher , two days before the season began that he no longer held any position of responsibility , Maynard having been promoted in his place . |
| 19 | And then ranted and raved cos she probably just about going off then , you see it woke her up all the fuss and kerfuffle ! |
| 20 | Some of these are explored in the pages to come : computers which siphon even more power from the people who operate them ; a dynamic but degraded city ; a hippie alternative to capitalism which failed because it never really analysed the problem . |
| 21 | So , you see , little Miss Ellie Browne with an ‘ E ’ , why I decided that I no longer wish to put it down to experience . ’ |
| 22 | Even during the period of the " phoney war " he had fantasies of the house being bombed , and in June 1940 he asked Herbert Read to store in the country some of his books and clothes in order to prevent them from being destroyed in an air-raid.When on 7 September the " blitz " against London did begin , he decided that he no longer wished to stay in the capital . |
| 23 | All this meant that I no longer felt personally responsible for separatism . |
| 24 | Promotion to officer class meant that he no longer had time to care for his own litters . |
| 25 | This was a shrewd move on his part for it meant that he not only had the blessing , and guidance , of the College , but also avoided their censure . |
| 26 | This had been doubly hurtful , for it meant that she not only did not want to work for and look after him but preferred his lifestyle to her own , and by implication ( for she was a lazy woman ) that meant that she considered what he did not to be work at all , merely a pleasurable means of making a great deal of money . |
| 27 | New labourers came out , many from Ireland where pressure on land was unusually severe ; they came from southern Irish ports , so they could not have been directly affected by the English conquest and the Scottish settlement of Ulster at the beginning of the seventeenth century , but possibly Irish landlords felt that it no longer made sense to keep up private armies and turned men out of service for this reason . |
| 28 | Whenever she felt that it nearly always turned out that she was wrong . |
| 29 | The new company is called Tulloch Timber ( Nairn ) , but yesterday the operations director , Tony Mitchell , of Nairn , stressed that it no longer had any connections with the Tulloch Group , from which it had been purchased . |
| 30 | As he told Fred Emery on Panorama , ‘ from the moment that decision was taken to cancel the opportunity for a collective judgement to be taken , I knew that something very wrong had happened . ’ |