Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most notable absentee , of course , was former captain Vivian Richards , who had made it clear that he wished to end his career in the World Cup where , in the previous four tournaments , he was the only batsman to exceed a career total of 1000 runs . |
| 2 | ‘ In any case , it is clear that he had made his mind up . |
| 3 | Jonadab had made it clear that he had done his son-in-law a favour in allowing him to jump the queue and buy four of his grey shirehorses and now Stephen had to screw up his courage and confess that one was dead . |
| 4 | The National Party leader , Charles Blunt , also resigned in the aftermath of the election defeat , announcing his decision on April 6 when it became clear that he had lost his seat in the federal parliament . |
| 5 | It was immediately clear that he had put his foot in it . |
| 6 | He had to make it clear that he had learnt his lesson on tariff reform , and to do this in a way as compatible as possible with the dignity of an ex-Prime Minister . |
| 7 | Even if Steen had ever had such intentions , the events of the last week made it clear that he had changed his mind . |
| 8 | To risk his job — and Sir Daniel had made it very clear that he did risk it — was a courageous thing to do when you considered how few editors ' chairs there were on the Street . |
| 9 | A Free French administration was installed in Beirut and General de Gaulle quickly made it clear that he intended to keep his forces in Lebanon however much independence the country thought it had been given . |
| 10 | His mother summoned him ; she made it clear that she wished to see him alone . |
| 11 | Mr Sheffield said the note made it clear that she intended to take her own life and that she loved her family and daughter . |
| 12 | Once I realized I loved her and that she loved me it became clear that I had to leave my wife . |
| 13 | When I spoke I made it clear that I intended to do something about the position of the ‘ early leavers ’ and that I thought it right that people should not suffer if they transferred their pension from one job to another . |
| 14 | When it issued its first interim report in the autumn of 1955 , it was clear that it had narrowed its focus to the two core projects raised before Messina , the Netherlands proposal for a common market and Monnet 's ideas for a nuclear energy community . |
| 15 | Life in the office was tense , but the work was far more interesting than she had imagined it would be . |
| 16 | She had stopped being so afraid once she had heard him talking to her mother . |
| 17 | ‘ There was some press comment , but still none of us were remotely afraid that we had done anything wrong . ’ |
| 18 | The young lady in question ( who I shall call Mrs X because I am afraid that I omitted to catch her name ) began by asking me what the bad points were within the embalming profession . |
| 19 | It was as if he were gazing into heaven , and Agatha was n't so old that she 'd forgotten what that felt like . |
| 20 | From what her mother had told her the experience would be horrendous and she had cried herself to sleep for the past week thinking about it . |
| 21 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
| 22 | I mean , if you , if you into , if you were trying to look into building or commercial and you had to send them a planning application for it , you 'd have to prove that building could support the weight . |
| 23 | She had never intended to do wrong and he had punished her too hard ! |
| 24 | The moment was exciting and he wanted to prolong it — to think of himself as capable of taking up such an offer — though he knew that in the end he would have to decline it . |
| 25 | The road was wet and I kept telling him to go slower . ’ |
| 26 | And you had to be careful and you had to keep your hands clean . |
| 27 | " He 'd be more dignified if you 'd left him uncovered . |
| 28 | The generally accepted reason was that the French coffers were nearly empty and he wanted to replenish them from the vast treasures of the Knights Templars . |
| 29 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
| 30 | M.J. talked a lot , and Donald said I encouraged her too much , and that I.C.B. was on the point of being more personal and interesting if I had let her — but I was rather shy of it . |