Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Grant Hall Hotel was next door to Zion United Church where I still spent many weekday evenings in boys ' work , and it was now handy to finish at the church and then cross over to the radio station for the late night shift . |
| 2 | In November we were at the annual bazaar at the English ( episcopal ) church , where we also made many contacts . |
| 3 | But they said that it was a different matter over in the west , around Appleby way , where they generally paid more money but worked you very hard and gave you little meat . |
| 4 | He was often away in the West Riding , where he now owned several woollen mills which had been the basis of his father 's fortune . |
| 5 | His first formal education was received in the reading school kept at Ottery by ‘ Old Dame Key ’ , a relative of Sir Joshua Reynolds , and at six years old he progressed to his father 's grammar school , where he quickly surpassed all his contemporaries . |
| 6 | Shaun was more difficult as a personality , although I never had any fights with him myself . |
| 7 | It 's good news for hunting , although I never gave much for Mr Kinnock 's observations in the first place . ’ |
| 8 | A few weeks later I noticed that the anemone crab had disappeared and as more time went by , my fish stock began to decrease , although I never found any dead fish in the tank . |
| 9 | It should be clear from the previous chapters that although I still had some sense of personal identity when I became anorexic , I simply did not have the opportunity or know-how to form an Eriksonian ego identity . |
| 10 | ‘ These people got abusive because we would n't take their drugs so I just grabbed this bag of s*** and poured it over the floor . |
| 11 | ‘ All my school life , I was under the impression I was not completely stupid but pretty dumb so I never had that oomph . |
| 12 | I 'm afraid they came down the steps and chose the path leading away from me , so I only saw those three at a distance . |
| 13 | The frontispiece from a copy of the music from the Peer Gynt suite by Grieg was a beautiful piece of artwork even before it was decorated , so I only arranged some flowers in two of the corners , rather than all the way round , which would have overpowered the original design . |
| 14 | Although she quickly did all the right things : alerting the police , the coastguard and Dr Forman , Harriet Tremayne knew that she would never see her daughter again . |
| 15 | The lines of experience were marked on her face and although she still had all the exuberant charm which had drawn him to her in the first place , he thought she looked older than he knew her to be . |
| 16 | Although she never showed any interest in what I was up to at university , she often asked questions about the East End and seemed fascinated by my stories of Charlie Trumper and his barrow . |
| 17 | The Dalek 's power was conducted through the floors so you instantly dismissed any idea of the city being built from house bricks . |
| 18 | Lee is currently casting his magic spell over Ampeg 's tube guitar amp range , although we also suspected some Jackson-type involvement in Crate 's GT-50 Stealth combo when we recently reviewed it . |
| 19 | We broke into the single , locked cupboard , and although we only found some new clothes and shoes with jewellery stuffed up inside the toes we assured each other that Aisha received money from her lover and liked leaving me in the house with the children because it made it easier to cheat on her husband . |
| 20 | And it was like , nothing , so we just extended all this out and made it into a stage come , a bigger dance floor cos the I do n't know why they wa always seem to have this trends that , they have these trends in the seventies and that was , and eighties of having small dance floors |
| 21 | I was paid for the lessons not in money but in food , so we always had enough oil , sugar , cheese and butter — commodities that were now difficult to obtain . |
| 22 | Well-intentioned though their desire was to make available to everyone the best information concerning hygiene , health care , child care , etc. , and although they always placed such recommendations in the context of ensuring that everyone , through improved wages and benefits , would live at least at a ‘ national minimum of civilized life ’ , the ‘ official interference ’ implied by their proposals was disliked as much by working people who would experience it , as by the Liberal bourgeoisie who were hostile to the principle . |
| 23 | Many of these children had been attending for a long time , so they already knew many things , specially the important things like how to stand in line and what to do when your pen-nib broke . |
| 24 | In fact he had me arriving at the scene in a police car with two tones , at , at , at that time we did n't have police cars with two tones , just siren , so they obviously put some sound on it . |
| 25 | The feel was ‘ Get to Manchester and get signed ’ although it rarely worked that way . |
| 26 | During the first decade it seems , on average , to have run below £200,000 , although it sometimes exceeded that figure . |
| 27 | When the gunner on the after twin-Lewis was killed , Tom Durrant took over although he already had several serious wounds , and he collapsed still firing these guns at the German destroyer on her third or fourth attempt to approach the ML . |
| 28 | Returning towards the island he saw five Ju88s heading out to sea and although he now had little ammunition left , attacked and thought that he had managed to damage one . |
| 29 | Bernard , however , realized that unless someone with a sound financial background took the company 's problems in hand , its continued existence was threatened , although he too showed little enthusiasm for the idea . |
| 30 | The main character of the memoirs is of course ultimately their author , and , although he ostensibly denied this , the memoirs constitute his apologia . |