Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [noun] [conj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Her labours done — and though they involved both effort and expense she enjoyed them very much — she sat for a little at her desk , thoughtful and handsome .
2 In the course of these they recovered both Shalamcheh and Fao itself , apparently catching the Iranians quite unprepared , with many baseej killed or captured .
3 Holt was at pains to point out that from his garden , if he stood on tiptoe , craned his neck and employed both imagination and compass he could , perhaps , in the right light , makes out the Drus .
4 You know in the forties they had just soil and stones you know ?
5 Hence John Taylor 's unlucky candidature in Cheltenham , with all its resultant difficulties , and the arrival on the stump of several Asians , many of whom sounded more Sandhurst than Sandhurst itself .
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