Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The tension in the room was so high that it flowed like an invisible electric charge . |
| 32 | Minutes later he was loving her completely , his thrusts deep inside her , his penetration so absolute , so wonderfully possessive that she closed around him instinctively , holding him where he belonged , within her for evermore . |
| 33 | ‘ Oh no , although it was a bit further than I bargained for . |
| 34 | It turned out they had downclimbed , as it was easier than it seemed from above , but we did n't know that until later . |
| 35 | Alice Wilson 's cellar dwelling with its brick floor ‘ so damp that it seemed as if the last washing could never dry up ’ would not be far distant from the Davenports ' if the nature of that ‘ dampness ’ were defined . |
| 36 | When I looked at all this stuff , it came to me that it was very interesting that they thought of Beauty as beautiful and Cruelty as cruel . |
| 37 | When I looked at all this stuff , it came to me that it was very interesting that they thought of beauty as beautiful and cruelty as cruel . |
| 38 | It is interesting that he replied to her question in reverse ! |
| 39 | A tangerine that Modigliani gave me — we were in front of a fruit-shop — and another that he gave to his wife : that is my last memory of them . ’ |
| 40 | In the 1993 edition of its US Industrial Outlook , the Commerce Department in Washington is predicting that book sales will grow at a faster rate in 1993 than they did in 1992 , says BP Report . |
| 41 | The shortfall density algorithm would pursue one interpretation depth-first until it came to an area that scored less well , such as that … |
| 42 | Newcastle had lost just one League game away from home before this and they started with all the confidence of a four-match winning run behind them . |
| 43 | In NZ this would be no problem as there would be loads of backpackers ( cheap accommodation ) within cooee of the airport , but Britain being a backward country there is nothing like this and we stayed with friends who live 20 miles away in the heart of the Sussex countryside . |
| 44 | In contrast , Cramlington is ‘ non-urban ’ and was intended to be a more or less ( there was always some equivocation about this and it grew over time ) free-standing new town , located on a ‘ green field ’ site quite separate from the Tyneside conurbation . |
| 45 | He goes well I was playing with your chicken like this and it spat at me , so I bit its head off , clamped its eggs and set fire to its nest ! |
| 46 | The first was just 20 minutes after the polls closed when , during a sample of random live interviews in Manchester , a man with a business on the verge of bankruptcy cheerfully admitted that the Tories had got him into this and he relied on them to get him out . |
| 47 | Fleischmann certainly was concerned about the momentum of events ; the news from Harwell magnified this and he expressed to some colleagues his nervousness and wish that the press conference could be stopped . |
| 48 | He had a nice red car and he had this and he looked like a singer , like er , you know the kind of things that I like , right , women that look , they dress nicer , like . |
| 49 | And my hands were going like this and I looked at my clock and it was about six o'clock and it was still pitch black because it jump back into bed . |
| 50 | I did well , I had hundred pound in me purse last night till Steve says can I have me pocket money and can I have me petrol and can I have this and I paid for coal and I 've got forty . |
| 51 | But , like Morgan , his main orientation was historical and he contributed to evolutionary theory by introducing the term ‘ survival ’ for those customs or beliefs which , like the human appendix , linger on anachronistically out of context . |
| 52 | Ill health forced her abroad in 1885 and she returned to England to the Trafalgar Square riots of 1886 . |
| 53 | If only she could jump on her back and not stop galloping until she got to Ricky and Palm Springs . |
| 54 | There was a library but Rain and Patrick did not meet there because her recollection was wrong and they blundered into each other in a passage . |
| 55 | Unfortunately the op went wrong and I had to be readmitted . |
| 56 | ‘ He left when I was 12 and I ran into him once . |
| 57 | ‘ I have heard nothing of this until you came into my gallery a quarter of an hour ago and accused me . |
| 58 | Well he 's not had a holiday since our Craig was thirteen months old and we went to Ibiza |
| 59 | The computer was twenty thousand years old and it wanted to be friends with me ! |
| 60 | ‘ My father retired when I was 10 years old and I started in 1980 . ’ |