Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 18 December 1689 the anniversary of William 's first entrance into London was cele-brated with a huge procession through the City , as crowds carried effigies of James 's chief ministers through the streets to Temple Bar , where they ritualistically hanged them at a " triple galloes " set up next to a great bonfire . |
| 2 | She clung to him as he charged up the stairs and into her bedroom where he unceremoniously dumped her on the bed . |
| 3 | Well perhaps it need n't where he just had plenty of porridge |
| 4 | Where he actually shot somebody with a sawn off shotgun . |
| 5 | Her hand throbbed beneath his where he still trapped it on the table . |
| 6 | I am glad you like Mr. Gould : — he has been always very obliging to me — although I never knew him till lately : Mrs. G. appears an exceedingly pleasant & amiable woman . |
| 7 | But she was still smiling at me , so I just tied it in a knot and left it . |
| 8 | There was no yardage chart in those days , but I worked out very quickly that Arnold was two clubs stronger than me , so I just put myself in the same situation and added on two clubs . |
| 9 | ‘ Because of the angle I had no chance of getting it over the bar with my right foot so I simply hit it with the left and it went over . ’ |
| 10 | She was born in Middlesbrough and her parents and family were from Skelton , so I always assumed it to be a North Yorkshire expression . |
| 11 | I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them . |
| 12 | ‘ You did n't say anything about your brother so I never mentioned him to Emily Grenfell . |
| 13 | I never did anything and I never played with children when I was a child because I did n't want to play with peasants on the estate , so I never did anything except sketching , painting and reading , and I 'm still doing pretty well exactly the same thing , and learning languages . |
| 14 | After I introduced the hemp earlier the fish seemed to go off the feed so I only introduced it for four or five casts . |
| 15 | Alix could not have afforded this solution , and would have thought it cheating had she been able to afford it , although she thoroughly despised herself for these scruples . |
| 16 | She took up the piano and , according to her headmistress Ruth Rudge , ‘ made phenomenal progress for someone who started late ’ ; and although she never made it into any of the school teams , she loved tennis . |
| 17 | But she could not , so she simply told him in a flat tone , ‘ We 've recently started exporting to Europe and Japan . |
| 18 | I remember David started crying but Ralph would not back down and say we deserved the money , or to have some of it , so we just left them at the Brummel Club before doing their thing . |
| 19 | Lifting her out of the water we were totally silent , and neither of us seemed to be willing to commit ourselves on a weight so we just put her in the sling and let the scales do the talking . |
| 20 | Um well we did n't know what to do with the money , so we basically gambled it on the Grand National . |
| 21 | He was n't available , so we then covered ourselves by signing him before the January deadline with a view to playing him when he became available . ’ |
| 22 | It was a wet morning so they just took him to the corner and ran him to the corner of Richmond Row in his bare feet — brought him back — ‘ Put your shoes on ! ’ |
| 23 | In 1540 , however , although he strongly opposed them in the House of Lords , the Six Articles of Religion were passed by parliament , including those on transubstantiation and celibacy of the clergy . |
| 24 | Have you had a copy of , dare I say it , the tabulation which was produced by the panel , which summarized the various er submissions , and if I just read them to you . |
| 25 | I agree that it would if I constantly compared her with my current partner , or wistfully mentioned her name from time to time . |
| 26 | I could get tired of even roulette if I always played it in the same place . ’ |
| 27 | I said to her , ‘ I 'm not willing to argue with you here because it would get me into trouble but if I ever saw you on the street I would ’ . |
| 28 | I thought that if I never tried it on my own , I would always wonder whether I could . ’ |
| 29 | It 's only cos I fucking told him about it the other night . |
| 30 | cos I just picked everything up that was in there , thinking it was mine , and . |