Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she felt a little guilty about letting him do it Sally found she quite liked the feel of his fingers stroking her flesh and teasing her nipples but when he tried to put his hand up her skirt beneath her scratchy petticoats she tried to stop him . |
| 2 | At the same time , one must remember that there were other aspects of the economy which were virtually unaffected by war ; one sees this in the growth of the mining interest in the North-east , and most conspicuously in the continuation of trading connections with areas even after the political ties which had created them had been broken . |
| 3 | A group of about fifty teenagers who had followed them then set off on their own march through the banned area . |
| 4 | A woman standing next to her thrust a baby into her arms , and with her usual politeness she stayed holding it long after she would have liked to go away . |
| 5 | This is the vet to me he goes your dog 's got brown teeth you got to brush it brush the teeth banged his tooth with the collar , he had a metal collar |
| 6 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 7 | Perhaps it is a sort of demoralisation , not surprising considering the misfortunes which have wracked the East Asian communities now in Britain — first their years of suffering associated with their expulsion from Africa , then their experiences at the hands of racist British authorities who tried to keep them out of Britain , and finally the day-to-day racism which they have faced in Britain as refugees . |
| 8 | They headed north , and after a few minutes she began to think she might actually survive . |
| 9 | Her earlier fears about what terrors lay in store returned , all the more powerful because for a few minutes she had forgotten them . |
| 10 | After a few minutes she stopped watching them . |
| 11 | Kate was curiously fascinating , but mixed in with the fascination was a sort of fear ; and over the last few months she had made it quite clear that the less she had to do with him , the better she would like it . |
| 12 | She seemed pulled out , elongated by it , so that her shoes , her new bronze slippers with rosettes on the toes that Aunt Emily had said she must keep hidden at all times if possible since legs and feet were highly indecent , seemed far further away than the five and a half feet she knew separated them from the crown of her head . |
| 13 | In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully . |
| 14 | For the first time in over forty years someone had humbled him on the board he considered his own . |
| 15 | For the last few days she had seen them , not as her parents but as two hating individuals carrying on a private war behind screens . |
| 16 | After a few days he started telling us about the year spent in isolation . |
| 17 | Once she had seemed to know a good deal about him , but in her idle rancour of the last few weeks she had abused him for faults that seemed nothing to do with the truth of him . |
| 18 | If so , the protective trees had gone , and the brutal buildings which had replaced them would channel the wind more fiercely , not screen it . |
| 19 | you 've got some questions you wanted to ask me ? |
| 20 | My interests , after making a lifelong detour through the natural sciences , medicine and psychotherapy , returned to the cultural problems which had fascinated me long before , when I was a youth scarcely old enough for thinking . |
| 21 | But it was n't just the hope of seeing old friends which had drawn me back . |
| 22 | Old friends who had forgotten her during the hard times . |
| 23 | Though he now said that he was ‘ no longer very much interested in my own theories about poetic drama , especially those put forward before 1934 ’ , the old interests which had fascinated him from his first dramatic Fragments continued to grip him , leading to the fact that each of his dramas had as its ‘ sort of springboard ’ a ‘ Greek myth ’ . |
| 24 | At school , the few masters who had noticed him at all had tried vaguely to direct him towards science . |
| 25 | Then I 'd wondered if some women who 'd stopped me on the path had taken it . |
| 26 | And when she 'd got the same blank response to two further letters she 'd sent him , Laura had sorrowfully realised that her marriage was indeed at an end . |
| 27 | In a few moments she had finished it all while Tom All Alone watched her with obvious delight . |
| 28 | For a few moments she stood watching him as with quick little movements he fed himself , his sharp eyes darting suspiciously from side to side . |
| 29 | After a few struggles I managed to disarm him and get some of the money back . |
| 30 | Unlike many expensive Scottish signings who had proceeded him , McAvennie took to English football like a gin to tonic . |