Example sentences of "[det] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that if everyone if if people who wrote the dictionaries did n't know people 'd still be going round thinking that everyone said fore head or break fast . |
| 2 | He instantly took in that I brought bad news and steered me at once into the noisy outside coupling space between the dayniter and the central dining car . |
| 3 | After a week of that I decided one night to leave in the morning . |
| 4 | I weighed eleven stone when I was in the Line : before I came out with that I weighed five stone ten . |
| 5 | This nothing had two functions at least : assassin and whore . |
| 6 | Intermittent tamarisk jungle grew along the banks of the Awash and in this I saw several herds of waterbuck , many warthog and an occasional bushbuck . |
| 7 | But then it was this I thought any minute it 's gon na be Somewhere over the Rainbow . |
| 8 | Thank you chairman , I , I second er 's motion , erm trying to be not political about this I got some figures from the er county council which indicate that from the first of April ninety-two to the thirty-first of December ninety-two eighty-six members attended committee meetings of which they were not members . |
| 9 | At the far end , once again my , detector gave a nice small signal , quite different from the copper halfpennies , and as I dug down to retrieve this I had some idea in mind that this might be a hammered . |
| 10 | After this I bought some contact magazines . |
| 11 | This I did three times before getting in , largely on the strength of some Moroccan paintings I had recently completed . |
| 12 | What he found in most of the drawers was of little immediate interest : personal bank statements , cheque book , an account book in which Riddle kept a record of his investments , another which itemised personal expenditure . |
| 13 | A key point to note is that every stage of processing was able to affect the score of a reading ; thus , for example , a reading that scored more highly during the first ( semantic conflation ) phrase could later be overtaken by another which allowed easier reference resolution . |
| 14 | Underneath this she wore black cotton trousers — ideally these should have been made of silk , but she felt sure no one would notice . |
| 15 | AFTER THIS SHE HAD ODD FLASHES OF ‘ CLAIRVOYANCE ’ . |
| 16 | She was able to chat to Ana for most of the meal and what with one thing and another she felt some progress had been made , though what she was doing in this situation she did not know . |
| 17 | Before the Second World War , virtually the only people able to practise archaeology on a full-time basis were those employed in museums , or the few who had sufficient wealth to be self-financing . |
| 18 | She knew him when he came ; though he trod quietly his step was unmistakably light and long and confident , and he was one of the few who came that way by night alone , yet not furtively . |
| 19 | The loyal few who paid full price at the turnstiles deserved better , but the real losers were Sheffield Eagles , who wanted a tour game and would have used the opportunity much more imaginatively . |
| 20 | Some who had subsequent pregnancies had refused any kind of test , despite in some cases being aggressively pressurised by the hospital . |
| 21 | For example , among those carers living with a dementia sufferer , there were some who gave little care because the sufferer did not need much , because they went out to work , or because they themselves were frail ; and at the other extreme were people who ‘ did everything ’ for a sufferer , and rarely left the house without him or her . |
| 22 | You swore to destroy my father and take his castle when he refused your offer for Alice — ‘ t was evil , but no worse than many another who coveted another man 's property . |
| 23 | To allow for this we provided several opportunities in the questionnaire for teachers to make additional individual observations . |
| 24 | Also for that matter , a tenant hand , a householder has the rights to invite who he wishes into his own house , this one sided dictatorial attitude of the Labour group to determine who can , who can not enter his home is er contrary to my philosophy anyway Chairman . |
| 25 | Just sometimes , this one had crimson nails , left over from the other , who wore a tight black skirt and a black jacket with padded shoulders over a pink silk shirt and was carefully made up with pink and brown eyeshadow , brushed blusher along the cheekbone and plummy lips . |
| 26 | This one had both legs and all his fingers , yet you still felt there was something missing . |
| 27 | This means that British Coal has to shut down a large amount of its production capacity , and this they attempted last autumn . |
| 28 | After this they employed Welsh builders and had everything sent over with them including paint , sandpaper and Polyfilla . |
| 29 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 30 | From this it followed that kingship , like fatherhood , was a divine institution to which resistance was not merely impolitic but sinful . |