Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [indef pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many ships suddenly developed strange ghost personae ; mechanical poltergeists in the engine room ; voices where they had none before ? |
| 2 | Although no-one brought anything back to be replaced , it can happen it just is n't funny if a trick lighter fails to squirt water after all . |
| 3 | In fact , I do n't think that I 've mentioned anything since March , but I am not sure that I did anything really productive during April . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , I knew that I needed something far beyond that which could be offered by the NHS . |
| 5 | Now I felt that I wanted nothing else in the world but to be allowed to read this dismal grammar all winter . |
| 6 | And it did n't move , so I tried something else . |
| 7 | Jane could not bear to give up for , although she knew nothing so harrowing as the run-up to a match or a medal , she knew nothing to compare with the excitement which lay on the other side of the 1st tee : " However tight a match , I never believed that anyone was going to beat me . |
| 8 | He rather hoped his wife would wake and catch him like this , unshaven , hair greasy and uncombed , and as he stood beside the bed he farted quite loudly , as if to remind her that she deserved someone as awful as him . |
| 9 | And if she did come in she always made sure that she had somebody else with her . |
| 10 | As the transporter approached the dead end without slowing , Bernice remembered that she had something else to tell the Doctor . |
| 11 | That possibly meant that she had something else on this weekend . |
| 12 | She put her finger to her lips and he watched in astonishment as she opened her dressing to reveal that she had nothing on . |
| 13 | was taken on that she had one immediately sh , we lost dad |
| 14 | For reasons set out in earlier reports and in statements ( IG 16–19 ) concerning her car , abandoned in Exeter station car-park , it is possible , even likely , that she met someone there by arrangement … |
| 15 | If you made everything into a joke , people thought that nothing mattered to you , that you took nothing seriously . |
| 16 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 17 | It introduced him to the bizarre situation that Churches treated each other worse than they treated anyone else ; and to the recognition that the reason for this was not religious but racial . |
| 18 | I hope that they got something out of it . |
| 19 | The areas of learning and experience are those identified earlier , except that they added one more : technological . |
| 20 | Dean 's parents spoke out angrily in the Mirror yesterday , after we had revealed the existence of the bug that they knew nothing about . |
| 21 | I think I left the Bench at least with an impression that they had someone very special to deal with , I was , of course , all the time praying that no one for the police would ask for his Conduct Sheet , which they overlooked after making a dutiful response to the Bench , and I hurried away to be met outside the Court by Stewart , who at once asked me to lend him a pound . |
| 22 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 23 | Once they took one away from the woodpile and hid it in the stable and the mother searched everywhere , growing more and more distressed . |
| 24 | Although he ate nothing afterwards he continued to gain weight thanks to the presence of the Troll flesh . |
| 25 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott went back to his planning duties , although he did one more beach reconnaissance ahead of ships ' detachments of Royal Marines landing on Kupho island ( off Crete ) in a modest raid that destroyed a radar station , and might have brought back code books had not their metal safe been lost as a ship 's boat tilted in being hauled aboard a destroyer gathering speed . |
| 26 | I do recall him saying , not in that connection ( which his good manners would have forbidden ) but with reference to the system of rationing in general , that it made one obsessively conscious of the working of one 's digestive organs . |
| 27 | These few days with you have been like this country before me here — a new paradise , an enchanted place so rich in itself that it needed nothing else . |
| 28 | It must have been then , in a final flush of family feeling , that he made everything over to Nigel . ’ |
| 29 | It was only when they reached the turning to Sansepolcro that he felt something hard underneath his foot . |
| 30 | The real trouble with him , according to the Anglo-Norman chronicler William of Malmesbury , was that he took nothing seriously , that " he turned everything into a joke and made his listeners laugh uncontrollably " . |