Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when Labour policy was close to CND 's , the party never had a spokesperson who wholeheartedly agreed with it . |
| 2 | Provisions listed in the second column below and those of regulations etc. made under them , remain in existence until replaced by regulations made under the Order . |
| 3 | It was shortly after this that her mother approached her and in a voice that she rarely used to her , she said , ‘ Agnes , I … |
| 4 | It must be remembered that , nine times out of ten , the third party solicitor will be relying on descriptions of locus , machinery , etc. provided to him by his client — and will not have had the opportunity of visiting the LOCUS himself . |
| 5 | He was one of 4 youths who attacked jogger , Paul Lanighan because he accidently bumped into them in the street . |
| 6 | The thirty five year old man was set on by four youths after he accidently bumped into them . |
| 7 | But it is important not to become so mesmerized by them as to lose sight of the underlying social processes . |
| 8 | I suddenly agreed with you about prizes and fame and the rest . |
| 9 | ‘ I merely agreed to it . |
| 10 | Passionate with indignation at the poverty and injustices which he daily met around him in the industrial north of Bradford , he sought , and was able to gain from , J.P.M. 's National Council of Labour Colleges , that knowledge which served him so well throughout his short working life , as a weapon with which to fight and change the capitalist system which tolerated and perpetuated such inhumane living conditions . |
| 11 | Ghost : Well , Ken , dear boy , you somewhat asked for it , When you chose Henry V to film again , Drawing inevitable comparisons . |
| 12 | A face suddenly lunged at him , its teeth bared . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't think what suddenly got into him . |
| 14 | The resulting radical pollution control programme outlined by Nixon , calling for a 90 per cent reduction in vehicle emissions by 1980 , not only led to him being credited ( albeit briefly ) as policy initiator of an environmental clean-up but also provided him with the chance to deal a blow to one of his most important opponents in the 1972 elections , Edmund Muskie . |
| 15 | " She only agreed to it because I used to know him at school . " |
| 16 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 17 | Gesner suddenly shouted at her . |
| 18 | She was about to raise a leather-booted leg when a voice suddenly shouted behind her . |
| 19 | And it merely occurred to me , actually I was sitting in the unemployment benefit office and I said to them er er at one of my interviews , |
| 20 | I was therefore delighted when one day in May they suddenly reported to me at Luqa . |
| 21 | Thus she not only shouted at him , she once took his best blowpipe , broke it in two and stamped on it . |
| 22 | He confronted Julie Stott , 27 , and her companion , Peter Ellis , 27 , forced them to lie spreadeagled on the ground , and apparently shouted for them to hand over their money and watches . |
| 23 | She was at the deep end of the pool when Felipe suddenly surfaced beside her . |
| 24 | Or — and this thought only occurred to me when I was out on the street and running for the hill as fast as I could — as if there was something else behind his eyes , looking out at the world , waiting for the awful moment when it would start to take apart our little corner of the planet , piece by shabby piece . |
| 25 | It suddenly occurred to them that he had not moved a muscle since they came in . |
| 26 | If you think books do n't change people , just look at Changez , because undreamed-of possibilities in the sex line suddenly occurred to him , a man recently married and completely celibate who saw Britain as we saw Sweden : as the goldmine of sexual opportunity . |
| 27 | A thought suddenly occurred to him . |
| 28 | Two blocks away from the house of her childhood it suddenly occurred to her that her mother might have left , that there might be strangers in the hallway , a different set of curtains hanging at the windows ; her father 's study might have been turned into a playroom for a new generation of North Oxford children , so different from herself in her prim Clark 's T-bar sandals that she would not be able to recognise her own infancy in theirs . |
| 29 | She frowned at Beth when an awful thought suddenly occurred to her . |
| 30 | It suddenly occurred to her that total disregard of her escapade was a very subtle punishment indeed . |