Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had you broken them in properly or carefully plastered any sore areas beforehand ? |
| 2 | He had picked them out unerringly and Maggie assumed it was because they were clearly too poor-looking to be guests here . |
| 3 | I would have picked you out anywhere as being his sister . |
| 4 | There 'd been neither sight nor sound of James since that fateful day and no doubt he had forgotten her as quickly as he had taken her , but he must be told there was going to be a child . |
| 5 | With her thoughts going dreamily round and round , it was about seven-thirty that , as she was again thinking of how he had that morning cradled her so gently when he 'd seen her hurt , Leith suddenly became horror-struck . |
| 6 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
| 7 | In spite of the fact that he had let her down badly and most devastating of all , even though he now had a new love — Beth still pined for him . |
| 8 | Why had it trapped him as neatly as she had done ? |
| 9 | I hope you 've enjoyed it , I hope you 've enjoyed it perhaps more than some of us dared to . |
| 10 | If your symptoms do n't go away after a few minutes it is probable that you have n't caught it quickly enough and in this case you will need to use the technique of ‘ rebreathing ’ . |
| 11 | A year ago , perhaps — or he might have considered it as recently as six months since . |
| 12 | One has the impression that the politicians have half-heartedly picked it up so as not to be left behind in the citizenship fashion-parade , or maybe because they have been prodded into rendering some kind of lip-service by their convinced academics . |
| 13 | I indicated a possible line of enquiry that would have been much more fruitful had he pursued it more vigorously and had begun to examine the role of fixed capital in the cyclical process . |
| 14 | Citicorp has pursued it more energetically than most . |
| 15 | and they do it electrically or you can do it manually and he 's turned them round manually and now the water 's coming out normal put them back to how they were |
| 16 | ‘ What surprised the crew was that Michael led the insistence on the part of the actors to record both plays again , having done them extremely well but feeling they could be done better . |
| 17 | Said he 'd bailed me out once and he would n't do so again , I could make my own way . |
| 18 | We shall see that , said I , and he answered unabashed , with the invisible instruments twanging and humming and jangling all over the room , ‘ You may see it , but you must not speak about this or anything that has passed here , for I have silenced you as surely as if I had cut out your tongue . ’ |
| 19 | The mother-daughter relationship he had witnessed in London had moved him so profoundly that he had fallen in love with them both . |
| 20 | As a young girl in the Burrows this method had saved her on more than one occasion from a corner of adversity . |
| 21 | This came out with more bravado than Sally-Anne really felt , and had she seen him more clearly before she intervened she might not have said anything at all . |
| 22 | Yeah , but I mean even , even so , she , she has met him once before and she must of seen him when she 's gone to the house for him to kidnap her . |
| 23 | He stated , correctly in my view , that he had quote seen her much more than anybody else unquote and confessed that when he had first treated her on the day of the accident he had quote never expected to see her again , unquote . |
| 24 | He 's done it on more than one occasion , ’ Silas admitted . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's done it brilliantly again and he 'll be better for that race I can tell you , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Anyway , he had done it very quietly and gently-not to wake me , I suppose … ’ |
| 27 | They could n't have done it too promptly or else she and the Archdeacon would have met them after their ill-fated call on the Dersinghams . |
| 28 | Even when you have a rib transfer carriage , you will still need to transfer a stitch by hand sometimes ; this is much easier if you 've done it so often that it 's automatic . |
| 29 | We got to the 18th and there 's Greg Norman and Jack Nicklaus , who took five hours to get round ; we 'd done it in less than four , had a bit of lunch and more practice in that time ! |
| 30 | Well , it 's only a short distance , I know — you could have done it in less than five minutes in the daylight — but we wo n't see eleven o'clock again . |