Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The silence and emptiness of the scene did not become apparent to her until she turned into the drive of the house and realized there were no other cars parked there , no gaily clad groups tripping towards the garden , no jazz band to summon them nor hired flunkeys to greet them , no pop of champagne corks nor buzz of conversation , no bunting , no balloons , no merriment of any kind . |
| 2 | Until she met the Crowley family she was a lost , lonely and abused teenager who was doing so much damage to herself that social workers said she 'd never see her eighteenth birthday . |
| 3 | He was rushed to Inverness Infirmary where doctors saved him and dedicated physiotherapists nursed him back to health . |
| 4 | It was the ‘ Ology ’ line that hooked her and other papers followed her line . |
| 5 | I asked her whether high buildings bothered her and she said she would feel fear if she looked up at them . |
| 6 | Jesus Delporto 's dying scream had followed Ace all the way to the lower moon , down the violently oscillating length of the Bridge , past bizarre machinery which seethed with naked power , and through the gap she had torched in the base of the column ; it followed her as eager hands pulled her from the writhing Bridge , stripped away her suit and placed her with the others in the medical unit ; followed her into sleep , forced a path into her dreams , drove her screaming and unrested into wakefulness . |
| 7 | It always amuses me when Liberal Democrats accuse me of having a ministerial career . |
| 8 | We were housed in the usual huts , but being this time in the centre of a town , we had paved paths all around us and shaded lights to help us get about at nights , and not having to go out at night to read instruments was a welcome change . |
| 9 | ‘ Police said they could n't do anything because social workers believed their mother was good enough to look after them . ’ |