Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was rather devastated when she told me she was moving to Crieff , as she made major contributions to the work of the Library here ; she had a long-term future , and her personality made many friends for the Library among our users . |
| 2 | The grant payable depended upon the number of children who could read , write , and do arithmetic to the satisfaction of the individual inspector , and therefore it was not unnatural that every effort was made by the managers of the school , to see that the inspectors ’ tastes in such other matters as food and drink were duly considered when he visited them . |
| 3 | Blanche drove on and three hours later she was safe in Dornaway Castle , where she seemed so shaken that they put her straight to bed . |
| 4 | And , anyway , she was n't so deluded that she thought they might make a life together . |
| 5 | For example one woman set fire to her kitchen accidentally and the carer , her neighbour , realised that it would not be safe for her to remain at home ; another carer , a husband , found himself becoming so stressed that he struck his wife ; he then requested institutional care . |
| 6 | He had dark eyes , thickly lashed and they regarded her steadily almost as if he knew her . |
| 7 | She knew why he sounded so strangled when she saw herself . |
| 8 | Beside her , the lamp suddenly rattled and she felt her hair lift . |
| 9 | The performances on this new disc are first-rate ; indeed they are so polished that I found myself occasionally longing for something with a little more humanity and which more faithfully reflected what were in all probability the more rough-and-ready sounds of the Kürbs-Hütte clientele . |
| 10 | ‘ But you were looking so absorbed that I guessed you were admiring that wonderful bureau . ’ |
| 11 | He slept when he was sleepy , ate when he was hungry , only talked if he had something to say , whether there were guests in the house or not . |
| 12 | " Many happy returns , " he said to himself , then suddenly gulped as he put his hand to his mouth and looked around . |
| 13 | Dvorak 's ‘ American ’ was so called because he composed it in the United States in 1893 , the year when his ‘ New World ’ symphony was first performed , both great works deriving from the same inspiration . |
| 14 | It looked like half a letter T. The needle was so bent that I knew I knew that I would not be able to remove it in the usual way , so I took my heavy pliers ( the ones with which I behead the Passap/Pfaff needles when they got damaged ) and cut off the top of the needle , below the bend . |
| 15 | Their home is my home , ’ he went on coldly , ‘ and they 'd be extremely hurt if they thought I believed otherwise . ’ |
| 16 | She was so exhausted that she let me help her without protesting , and finally we sat down together near the fire with our cups of tea . |
| 17 | The tea was much appreciated but everyone urged her not to leave the cellar again . |
| 18 | Leo was crouched before the fire , and she had the odd fleeting impression of power , a sort of unconscious arrogance that was only magnified when he turned his head . |
| 19 | Libion , the kindly café proprietor , was so exasperated that he had them all thrown out . |
| 20 | Indeed , I would feel greatly offended if you took it otherwise . |
| 21 | Annie laughed once more as Billy put a hand up to his lips in mock horror and then her face suddenly flushed as she realised he was appraising her . |
| 22 | Extraordinary as those visits were — and as warmly welcomed as he found himself in the diverse Kesparates of Yzordderrex — the city state was an autocracy of the most extreme kind , its excesses dwarfing the repressions of the country he 'd been born in . |
| 23 | ‘ Your reputation would be greatly enhanced if you took yourself seriously ! ’ |
| 24 | He was so enraged that he blasted his love rival to death in front of the girl ’ . |
| 25 | It was n't much read until they rediscovered it — Virginia Woolf knew it , she adduced it as an image of the essential androgyny of the creative mind — but the new feminists see Melusina in her bath as a symbol of self-sufficient female sexuality needing no poor males . |
| 26 | ‘ Thank Heavens for William , ’ she has since said as it meant she could now quite properly forsake the pills she was proffered by arguing that she did not want to risk physical or mental deformity in the baby she was carrying . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , the fragile harmony between them was soon broken when she found herself arguing furiously with him in the dress department of Bloomingdales . |
| 28 | I see you 've got no carpets down anywhere the door 's not painted and he said you 've been living here for two years ! |
| 29 | Country vets are n't easily sickened but I felt my stomach turning . |
| 30 | He had not said that he believed her , had only touched her for that fleeting moment , but she knew what she had felt . |