Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [pron] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The affectionate bond that built up between them did not go unnoticed either by Prince Charles nor Mannakee 's colleagues . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's all right , ’ he said , looking down at her bent back . |
| 3 | Jimmy-One-Arm … a great many people who played unwarily against him died unexpectedly in their early forties . |
| 4 | I know it was n't my birthday you just came in with it did n't you ? |
| 5 | ‘ They were concerned I would do something gruesome or speak critically about what went on in the ward . ’ |
| 6 | She sounded really cheesed off about I said how 's your revision going , cos I knew she was doing revision , she went cccckkk I try a maths paper and I ca n't do that , and I a chemistry paper and I ca n't do that and I really . |
| 7 | Two of the women who were moved up with me had already been in prison , one for about a year , one for about eight months , so they knew what to expect . |
| 8 | The remaining four had all been backstage at the relevant time , or could have been , but the motives Charles had managed to dredge up for them did n't survive close scrutiny . |
| 9 | No she came up to me came up to me and she goes , Erm have you got a partner . |
| 10 | No one could ignore the Rio Summit even if much of what came out of it did not have an immediate effect on business . |
| 11 | Its three tall windows gave a view of the stone terrace and the double flight of steps going down to what had once been a lawn and formal gardens , but which was now a half-acre of neglected grass , bounded to the west by the brick annexe of the Vehicle Examination Department , and to the east by the old stable block , now converted into garages . |
| 12 | No , she just turned away from her did n't |
| 13 | Even though she tried to listen out for the sound of a returning car , the castle and the road leading up to it remained as silent as the grave . |
| 14 | She hung on to one thought determinedly . |
| 15 | Therefore Schaffner was forced to take the unusual step of shooting it mostly in sequence , getting on with what had already been written . |
| 16 | In almost every case ( Leopold in Tuscany is perhaps the one real exception ) the new façade of fashionable ideology clothed policies which followed naturally from what had already been attempted by relatively unenlightened predecessors . |
| 17 | We would n't still be doing it if we did n't feel that it was creating enough profit in the meantime , and looked like it could create more as it went along . ’ |
| 18 | Nellie looked along the turning to the Galloway firm 's gates , a hard look in her eye as the bitter memories locked up inside her stirred once more . |
| 19 | Mr Stephens was careful to read the short poems and finished up with one set not far from the place at which John was hired . |
| 20 | His look as he glanced across at her resembled so much that of a shamefaced small boy that she found it hard to control a smile . |
| 21 | Michael , the second of three tennis playing brothers , took the 21 and under title with a powerful 6–3 6–3 victory over Graham Hobbs ( Dorset ) : whilst younger brother Craig , fought back from one set down against James Lake ( Lincs ) to win the 12 and under title 4–6 6–2 6–1 . |
| 22 | The bar was hot and the small , stuffed animals with beady eyes staring down at her seemed especially repulsive . |
| 23 | Mary-Lou could n't speak , the sight of the enormous spider apparently running straight at her had completely undone her . |
| 24 | Yeah she had it brought back for her did n't she ? |
| 25 | Tusser called it the goef , and we can be sure that , like the word , the design of the barn itself and the work that went on in it had hardly changed from the sixteenth century to within living memory . |
| 26 | And I just went along with I went inside to get a cup of tea . |
| 27 | Then she lay down on her sunbed again , leaving white streaks of suncream on the young man 's back . |
| 28 | And apparently the one that had gone out to him had n't found him , so they sent another one and he found him straight away with his directions . |
| 29 | catalogue , that went up there and call in , call in with it did n't they Alec ? |
| 30 | She spoke charitably of what happened so long ago but her attitude was to grow colder as the evening wore on . |