Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of these ingredients were indeed present , but as the months passed I became increasingly aware that there was much more than just science at work here . |
| 2 | Before I first visited I supposed wrongly that , since the latitudes are more or less the same , the coastline would be vaguely similar to that of Maine or New Brunswick . |
| 3 | As their space requirements changed they sought more open greenfield sites away from the conurbation centres ( Wood 1974 ) . |
| 4 | When he drew he put aside all other considerations and reached for the truth . |
| 5 | As the granite cooled it squeezed out hot fluids containing mineral ores in solution . |
| 6 | Some time later found he had only one shoe on . |
| 7 | I.M. Pei , who immediately approved the idea of glass roofing , found it posed particularly difficult technical problems relating to drainage and air conditioning . |
| 8 | My father , my mother and I were often asked to spend Sunday afternoons in the country , but sometimes , unless a horse and cart were sent to collect us , we could not go because the families who invited us lived too far away . |
| 9 | It seemed I had so many . |
| 10 | Jerry Lee was a pill-eating , gun-slinging yahoo who shagged his boozed up 13-year-old cousin and made tangible all the horror and lawlessness that was implicit on the Elvis records . |
| 11 | ‘ I noticed you looked pretty stunned , ’ she said drily . |
| 12 | In the split second he woke he felt wonderfully light and at ease , comfortable in his skin , all his limbs absolutely relaxed in the right order and oh so comfortable where they were . |
| 13 | It seemed he 'd only half heard her . |
| 14 | He wore a sailor 's short sword by his side , and I noticed he had only three fingers on his left hand . |
| 15 | Watching him refill her glass , she noticed he had unusually long fingernails for a man . |
| 16 | Although he preferred to train dancers from the age of nine , by the time the pantomime season came he had so many to cast he had to accept adults and teach them after they had finished a day 's work . |
| 17 | Without implying that Lanfranc was an enemy of the monks of the cathedral church , the whole drift of the pope 's account of the incident suggests that the request for a confirmation of the monastic status of the cathedral had come from someone other than Lanfranc : from whom the request came he left entirely unclear . |
| 18 | Despairingly , she realised she had only another two or three hours at most before he would be demanding her departure . |
| 19 | I said I never realized she 'd only that bit . |
| 20 | Donna had managed to disguise the worst of the bruising on her top lip beneath some foundation cream and a little rouge had given at least some artificial colour to her cheeks , but as she pulled down the sun-visor on the driver 's side and peered into the mirror she realized she looked as tired as she felt . |
| 21 | One glance in the dressing-table mirror as she sat down showed she looked as fraught as she felt . |
| 22 | A lot of people were quite happy about it , they reckoned we thought too much of ourselves , all that education they said , and look what comes of it . |
| 23 | Er yes I think they did but er we reckoned we lost about eight hundred and fifty pounds worth of gear . |
| 24 | Professor Dabs 's study of cases of female prisoners , convicted of violent crimes , in America , showed they had unusually high levels of the male sex hormone testosterone . |
| 25 | On average these people claimed they spent about six hours a week on such work , and this was equivalent to about 400,000 full-time workers . |
| 26 | He claimed he had n't any but he jolly well had ! |
| 27 | Shortly before his fifteenth birthday he began boxing professionally as ‘ Kid ’ Lewis at the Judaean Club , Whitechapel , where he had nearly fifty contests , and when Premierland opened he boxed there thirty-five times in 1912 . |
| 28 | This had been close-carpeted in a warm golden colour , but Kate guessed it covered more beautiful old wood floors . |
| 29 | But in the weeks that followed they became very close and clung to one another in their loss . |
| 30 | Advanced role-playing games sounded like more fun to play , although I soon discovered they had far more to do with train-spotting than they did with handcuffs , celery and a latex grope-suit . |