Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather she had assumed it without thinking . |
| 2 | That was what it was , a fit , during which something in her burst and she lost control of herself — or perhaps it had had something to do with the terrible heat . |
| 3 | Or perhaps I did diagnose it but I 've forgotten . |
| 4 | ‘ she has never seen what is good , how can she be good ? ’ — Vincent quoted from Zola 's L'Assommoir to back up his contention ; or perhaps he had read it there in the first place and appropriated it . |
| 5 | Or perhaps she had felt it then herself . |
| 6 | She had caught no fish , or perhaps she had thrown them back . |
| 7 | They had a new machine in , but after a pound or so I had mastered it and won an extra spaceship . |
| 8 | Up to the age of thirty or so he appeared to devote himself mainly to the social life of various celebrated Parisian salons . |
| 9 | Outside , the gate had gone from the basement steps , and the slanting roof of the coal hole had fallen in , but when he looked he could see the chafed paint , those marks on the rusted railings , where once he had padlocked his motorcycle . |
| 10 | Or possibly she had seen nothing at all , and it was pure fantasy . |
| 11 | He was here , somewhere in the building , and sooner or later she had to face him . |
| 12 | Once or twice he began to say something , paused and then branched out to another subject which had no connection with the one before . |
| 13 | Or had she — again she experienced that persistent feeling niggling at the back of her mind that somewhere she 'd seen him before . |
| 14 | It was decided that perhaps they had outlived their use and they were n't served at the reception . |
| 15 | She thought that perhaps she had inflamed herself as well , for she was longing to press her body closer to his ; to feel his hands on her waist , her legs — even , she thought with a slight shock , between her legs . |
| 16 | Rather timidly , and feeling that somehow she had let her uncle down , Erika touched Karl 's arm . |
| 17 | She had to almost trot to keep up with his long-legged , impatient stride , which was a novelty considering that usually she had to slow her pace to accommodate others , even men . |
| 18 | The therapist suggested that possibly she tended to set herself standards that were too high and also underestimated her own ability . |
| 19 | All the time he slept she lay there longing acutely for him to go , and when he did she felt the most immense relief and vowed that now she had escaped his presence she would never never put herself in that position again . |
| 20 | He says little about it , but I do n't think that there is very much doubt that intellectually he did exhaust himself . |
| 21 | Anyone who wanted to feel at one with the earth , to shed the twentieth century and all its trappings , might think that here he had achieved his ambition . |
| 22 | It was a weird , time , with white rastas , art-school escapees , old rockers and punk fanzine costermongers coming together to discover that maybe they did have something in common after all . |
| 23 | In seeking to escape from this conclusion it was submitted in argument that the reasoning of the judgment did not show , or show sufficiently , that Thorpe J. had given due weight to W. 's wishes and that accordingly he had misdirected himself . |
| 24 | He had come to the conclusion that the Queen was unlikely to abdicate ( nor is there a hint that he would like her to ) , and that therefore he had to make his mark as Prince of Wales rather than as King . |
| 25 | On the street again , suddenly I felt I was in the middle of a farce — ‘ POLICE SEARCH FOR THE BIG BANANA IS ON — and the discovery that actually I did have my cheque numbers in my moneybelt and that it was the photocopies that had been stolen made me almost light-headed . |
| 26 | He also had difficulty remembering his lines , and eventually I had to write his lines on boards , on bottles , on door frames — anything he had to pass by or pick up . |
| 27 | She was quite happy to let me do my survey and eventually I had to make my excuses or she would have gone on chatting all day . |
| 28 | You 'd try to get rid of them , tell them to go away — until eventually you had to do something — could n't ignore it . |
| 29 | You 'd try to get rid of them , tell them to go away — until eventually you had to do something — could n't ignore it . |
| 30 | And slowly he had extended his grip . |