Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [conj] [noun] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before that , Rachel had simply been my younger sister ; prettier , brighter and sweeter than me , but that had never really bothered me until that moment , when I realised that Jacob obviously loved her far more than he would ever love me . |
| 2 | I noticed that children often marked themselves like this in play . |
| 3 | If tomorrow someone discovered that Atlantis actually existed , he would not be adding a new property to the island state talked about in Plato 's Timaeus , but dispelling the suspicion that Plato , or someone else before him , invented the legend . |
| 4 | I remember that Lee once said that it was a good thing so many contemporary artists use shoddy materials because their works would happily disintegrate so future generations would be spared the sight of them . |
| 5 | At first , you see , I felt that Elsie probably did die , though not by suicide . ’ |
| 6 | I remember making this point a couple of years ago , yeah I made this point last year and I showed these pictures , I spent about twenty minutes on it , the following week I was , I was libelously accused and it was a libel , it was a serious libel erm er that I , that I said that females always had to submit erm I was very angry about that . |
| 7 | I paused and Benjamin just stared blankly back . |
| 8 | Mrs Singh had seemed mystified by the advice , as she believed the school should be responsible for progress in English and mathematics and shrugged helplessly when I suggested that parents also had an important role . |
| 9 | I wondered if Charlie really knew this , felt this , or whether his life as he lived it from day to day was as fucked-up and perplexed as everyone else 's . |
| 10 | It was the golden age for carvers and modellers , who enjoyed a freedom of expression and an architectural surface upon which to create and experiment never equalled before or since . |
| 11 | ‘ Just a little while ago you asked if humans ever gave up , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Oh , heavens , she thought as guilt again swamped her , she was going to have to be much more careful . |
| 13 | Wife or not , she knew that Stephen never gave praise unless he thought it was due . |
| 14 | While this suited some people with mild conditions , it became clear that those who attended as outpatients frequently had quite different characteristics from those who were admitted to the mental hospitals as in-patients . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's all very well you saying that , but do you realise that Micky only saw the script ten days ago ? |
| 16 | In fact she felt that Jennie positively disliked her , particularly when none of the shoes in stock fitted her and Jennie refused to buy her a new pair . |
| 17 | Such questions are worth distinguishing , however , because there are moral philosophers today who think that Kant effectively answered the third correctly , but that he offers no sufficient answer to the second . |
| 18 | She paused as words momentarily failed her . |
| 19 | She wondered if Jimmy ever got tired of the cycle . |
| 20 | We examined whether C.C. also showed this effect . |
| 21 | ‘ We thought that Italians always tested the silver to see if it was real . ’ |
| 22 | Many of them died because drivers simply did n't see them in the dark or poor visibility . |
| 23 | But later , through Tina , he realized that Steve still felt his father 's bitterness about the closure of the yards , and suspicion about the future . |
| 24 | Charles baulked slightly at that and then he realized that Bernard actually thought himself Noel Coward . |
| 25 | Editor , — Stella Lowry underplays a striking finding of David Wilson 's survey of 33 consultants in Yorkshire : he found that consultants generally did not see the preregistration year as an educational process . |
| 26 | It found that women often felt fairly unsure of their ability in DIY matters , but once they had breached the confidence barrier many regularly tackled demanding jobs and felt that their results were as good or better than those achieved by the professional . |
| 27 | He says that Murray always tried to help others , and it was doing just that which led to the tragedy . |
| 28 | He says that Andy just did n't fit in . |
| 29 | To environmentalists — and an increasing number of foreign foresters and ecologists — it seemed that Britain too had all the signs of forest decline . |
| 30 | All the villagers had an increasing tendency to address Lydia , if they had to address her at all , in the third person through the medium of Betty and it seemed that Elizabeth too had caught the habit . |