Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the ones that made me most were those which were very influenced by Picasso , which are in the Tate Gallery . |
| 2 | He captained Scotland to the final of the Alfred Dunhill Cup England beat them then was third in the Madrid Open and on Sunday lost a playoff to Sandy Lyle for the Volvo Masters . |
| 3 | Set in a glade of thinned-out coconut palms , it was breathtaking , but what amazed me most was that , within sight of the most beautiful beaches in the world , the garden contained a large pool edged with white and blue tiles . |
| 4 | Once I realised you really were blind . |
| 5 | Up until this point we have assumed that a referential locus is quite generally available for property words , not only adjectives in fact but also adverbs : ( 8 ) Philippa comforted her lovingly the referential locus of the adverb is that of the verb ; and the referential locus of the verb in turn is the entity of the subject phrase ; that is why a sentence like : ( 9 ) the drink comforted her lovingly is unacceptable , despite the fact that lovingly can co-occur with comfort , while comfort is compatible with drink . |
| 6 | Between us , we decided it really was genuine . |
| 7 | I think the point that Mr is making if I read him correctly is that is you had an inner relief road , in fact it would siphon off traffic from the A sixty one going south from say the Killinghall bypass or relief road . |
| 8 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |
| 9 | Given that this is the first full-length biography , and that most of the people who knew her well are dead , the danger is that Molly Izzard 's interpretations will be accepted by future scholars . ’ |
| 10 | But maybe he even thought he really was Apache . |
| 11 | The bloke that owned it before was soft , a real loser . |
| 12 | She suddenly realized he really was interested in the ship . |
| 13 | Unfortunately her oath precluded her ever being able to use it . |
| 14 | Had I still been suspicious of a haemorrhage I would have sent him to Edinburgh for a brain scan . ’ |
| 15 | The mayor of Darlington , Coun. Mrs Rita Fishwick , said she too was disappointed . |
| 16 | Or had she only been cold because she 'd known of her husband 's friendship with a beautiful young Irish girl ? |
| 17 | Had they now been alone , she would have welcomed the situation . |
| 18 | But had he really been ill or had he been shamming , crafty sick to give himself extra time in Leeds ? |
| 19 | When , until now , had he ever been far from the skirts of Prior Robert 's habit , attendant with ready flattery and obsequious assent to every word that fell from his patron 's lips . |
| 20 | When had he ever been interested in hearing her side of things ? |
| 21 | Had he always been this way ? |
| 22 | MacDonald , had he still been Prime Minister , would have lost the issue in verbiage and drowned himself in self-pity . |
| 23 | There he ‘ distinguished himself for Hebrew & Mathematics ’ , and might eventually have obtained a fellowship had he still been single . |
| 24 | Had it really been that afternoon ? |
| 25 | Had it only been this morning that she had visited Switham House and received that kind lady 's offer of help ? |