Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [subord] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 worry too much about that because I often wished deliberately , where I could be doing something more productive for the lord .
2 I was pleased about that because I still had to contend with Skipper when I went to Uncle Geordie 's .
3 And of the three of us who knew there was to be a young man on his way down to us by that path during the evening , how many have already made the leap forward to give this nameless victim a name , and begin to see certain reasons why it might be expedient for some if he never reached us ?
4 Katie Jane absolved herself of all responsibility for this when she recently claimed in the NME that is was all the onlooker 's problem .
5 So I had a handle on all of that before I even joined the band .
6 Meanwhile , Tom McKean was relieved to avoid one of his familiar acts of self-destruction as he successfully negotiated the first hurdle of his quest for gold in the 800m .
7 And it annoyed her intensely , not least of all because she still felt a long way from figuring him out !
8 And we when we came of age puberty I was frightened to death me because I was sitting on the bea we were playing on the beach still a child of twelve cos we still went about with little socks on at twelve in them days .
9 There is no doubt that Philip had an advantage on occasions like this since he alone represented France while the Angevins were represented by two princes whose interests diverged somewhat and whose differences could be , and were , skilfully exploited by the Capetian King .
10 I know Cell would sound like this before I even heard them .
11 He 'd galloped all the way to Leafield and we would have lost him for good if someone there had n't recognised him . ’
12 At the risk of stating the obvious , one might say that de Gaulle won his quarrel with Pétain because he correctly predicted the course of the war and Pétain did not .
13 The last time these clubs met was at Wembley in the 1983 FA Cup final , a game that needed two bites for United before they finally ran out winners .
14 The obligations of stateless organization , the solemn ceremonies of making peaces , perhaps worked better in 1979 than they ever did in the stateless age .
15 I remember that morning in particular because I still had it on when I went in to school .
16 The proposal to delegate responsibilities to local authorities was anathema to the Thatcher government in particular as it profoundly mistrusted local government and had progressively weakened its influence .
17 The Queen was far from amused when they soon got themselves grievously in debt , and refused to help them .
18 In 1808 he entered Lincoln 's Inn and was called to the bar in 1814 though he never practised .
19 stirred I must of , do n't know what happened this morning , I put the alarm off and turned over and went back to sleep again , it was about ten to eight before I finally got up .
20 So that 's purely , I mean and there 's no point in picking you up on that because you just had n't got to that point .
21 ‘ After the collisions the plates were able to adjust each time — fairly quickly it seems — and things went back to normal until something else came crashing in . ’
22 Told him not to let his report run to more than it absolutely had to , and on no account to make a feature piece out of it .
23 To make it worse , I think Paul had gone three shots ahead , at eight-under as he again played the first nine well .
24 Probably if it had n't have been for Sister Helen and I would have never have been able to b catch the at all because I never came to see a doctor .
25 And my answer always was that I could not expect too much when I expected nothing at all for I never thought that anyone whom I could love , would stoop to love ME .
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