Example sentences of "[conj] [pos pn] [noun] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such cases may have been exceptional , but a great many servants seem to have passed their lives in households where their employers knew them by their functions , not their names . |
| 2 | Of the priests we know little , except where their transgressions brought them to episcopal notice . |
| 3 | She hurried back to the dressing-tent , where her mummy helped her into her Gnome outfit , around which was swathed a broad white band on which was printed in big letters the Brownie Guide Motto , LEND A HAND . |
| 4 | He saw her breasts spilling across her ribs and that chip missing from her tooth where her brother hit her with a stone . |
| 5 | Cuts and weals appeared where her surrogate hurt itself in its destructive frenzy , but she smoothed them away with a flick of her mind . |
| 6 | In October of that year , while she was teaching in Columbia , South Carolina , she had realised that her work to that point expressed what her teachers or her friends expected it to ; and she determined , then , that she should allow it to express what she was feeling . |
| 7 | He had gone into his father 's firm of solicitors where his looks endeared him to wives in divorce cases , although his extreme reluctance to take decisions prevented them obtaining the best results . |
| 8 | I was very glad that my acquaintances escorted me to the Metro , with instructions to change at Dentfert-Rochereau for the Cité Universitaire , where I had managed to book a room in the Pavillon Franco-Britannique . |
| 9 | ‘ In the end , however , Torpedo stole the game from us despite the fact that my players ran themselves into the ground . |
| 10 | It was because the Communist Party fed me , that my learning stood me in good stead and I know at least this much and I live like this . |
| 11 | Sometimes I would catch her looking at me with such intensity of feeling that my breath left me for a moment . |
| 12 | I believe that my suggestion caused something of a stir . |
| 13 | Yet we felt we should give this fellow a chance , so my wife put it in a box and set it on top of the Aga . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sure that was a better lunch than my father gave you in Rouen . ’ |
| 15 | At the same time she knew that her gender isolated her from the ritualised socialising of other senior officers . |
| 16 | Apart from the shock that her GP saw her in the same light as his aged mother , Marie has never looked back . |
| 17 | And as she was moving about she would realize that her letter communicated nothing of her pleasure and love , so she would get the paper back and add a postscript and a laborious drawing . |
| 18 | First , she contended that her husband put her under undue pressure to sign and that she finally succumbed to the pressure . |
| 19 | It is now called The Cottage , but Mrs Smith remembers that her father-in-law bought it in the early thirties and referred to it as ‘ the Doctor 's House . ’ |
| 20 | It was only after she had fainted at tennis that her father took her to a specialist who found that she had an extra vertebra . |
| 21 | If he had not been halfway to sleep he would have noticed that far from washing the make-up from her face she had taken the trouble to apply the eye shadow and lip-stick that her mother sent her from Moscow . |
| 22 | She knew that her mother wanted her to be fatter ; she willed herself to grow solid flesh like Hyacinth , but nothing changed . |
| 23 | All of them were aware of their role and did n't seem to mind too much that their peers thought them to be crazy . |
| 24 | Women who told me that their partners accused them of using tears to manipulate them agreed that there were times when they deliberately wept , but said that it was often the only way they could get their partner 's attention . |
| 25 | Of those who reported that their disability handicapped them in some way , 90 per cent stated that they ‘ had to take special care ’ and 86 per cent reported a restricted work or social life . |
| 26 | She grumbled to me that if she left the tap-handles in situ , people would take advantage and lie in their baths for hours on end , using a lot more hot water than their franc entitled them to . |
| 27 | The status of the second level nurse has troubled the profession for years , not least because they have been depended on as the mainstay of practical bedside nursing , while being expected to take on more responsibility than their training prepared them for . |
| 28 | Although his business brought him into contact with many American settlers , he had received little co-operation in the collection of plants ‘ for what was common with them ( but rare with us ) they did not think worth sending ’ . |
| 29 | Despite financial difficulties , however , Hahnemann displayed such intellectual ability that his teachers helped him in his studies and allowed him to finance his education by tutoring the younger children in the school . |
| 30 | Huy sat in silence , hoping that his expression betrayed nothing of his thoughts . |