Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stench of damp that enveloped her was noxious ; she tried to take short breaths . |
| 2 | Lydia was enraged at the injustice of this and said she was definitely going home now , and what 's more her feet were hurting . |
| 3 | He frowned when reporting this and said it was not good that she should be so hard . |
| 4 | She had a lot of hair , but it was so tangled and matted it was impossible to determine the colour . |
| 5 | He said he 'd just come back from Amsterdam and he had tried some and said it was great and did I know where he could get some . |
| 6 | In addition , having listened repeatedly to the cassette he felt much happier in himself , realizing that the stammer which so embarrassed and distressed him was not going to prove incurable . |
| 7 | The babies , the bottles , the cooking , the diapering , the burping , the carriage wheeling , the pressure cooker , the barbecue , the playground and doing-it-yourself was more comfortable , more safe , secure and satisfying than that supposedly glamorous ‘ career ’ in which you somehow did n't feel wanted and knew you were n't going to get anywhere . |
| 8 | These new words can be proved by taking statements from an aggrieved person(s) to say how harassed , alarmed or distressed he was . |
| 9 | He 'd worked for firearms makers Springfield and Samuel Colt before beginning his own company in 1890 , and knew that identical parts could be made to a standard that meant they were interchangeable . |
| 10 | The composite that reached us was not attractive : to wear gloves , to redecorate and to pursue vicious joyless affairs under false names in highway motels . |
| 11 | This general modesty about the rights and powers of human reason might not appear a very dangerous threat to natural theology , but the way in which Hume sharpened and applied it was to have a quite shattering impact . |
| 12 | Or Hofmannsthal telling Strauss how ‘ delighted and moved he was by the music ’ ? |
| 13 | And I waited behind there till quarter past six and thought she was n't coming , and so I got out from behind the pillar … and she got out from behind hers ! |
| 14 | ‘ Well-dressed and fed they were . |
| 15 | In a long conversation to another close friend near the end of June , Antonia said she was upset and worried she was n't seeing enough of her Minister . |
| 16 | When she 'd lain awake in the night realizing how upset and worried she was by Timothy Gedge 's visit , she 'd thought the one thing she would n't be able to do was Meals on Wheels with Miss Poraway . |
| 17 | He pleaded guilty and said he was thirsty . |
| 18 | He began trying on his mother 's clothing when he was eight and realised he was a transexual when he was 17 . |
| 19 | The basis for the objections was that the RRA considered the site to be unsuitable and felt it was chosen by the IDA simply because the land was to hand . |
| 20 | ‘ I used Victoria when I was younger and thought it was terrible , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Farrar was short with livery lips and thick black eyebrows , and Something was prematurely bald and thought he was really cool . |
| 22 | Aware of further frosty looks from Seb 's parents Nutty looked suitably repentant and said she was sorry for trespassing . |
| 23 | She turned away and heard the door softly closing and knew she was alone . |
| 24 | How cold and calculated he was . |
| 25 | It must be a bit like being a lapsed Catholic , he thought ; you knew you were right but felt you were wrong . |
| 26 | All that amazed her was that he had not expected that . |
| 27 | All that got you was humiliation . |
| 28 | All that betrayed her was the slight tremor in the hand holding her wineglass . |
| 29 | But all that preceded it was very important too . |
| 30 | I was sixteen and thought I was in love . |