Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hand strayed to touch his short thick hair , a small yelp of surprise escaping her as her wrist was grasped by strong fingers and she found herself looking down into alert blue eyes . |
| 2 | They weighed up the prospect of knocking on the door and members of the jury , you have to consider in due course whether they got that act right . |
| 3 | We still cherished the idea of putting together a ‘ counterblast ’ ; but I perceived in due course that we had begun to differ regarding the objective to be demolished . |
| 4 | She made some weak excuse when she telephoned to break the appointment , but she knew perfectly well that she was apprehensive about going out in case the weather changed and it began to rain . |
| 5 | But I always knew you were fiercely independent and I knew how you 'd react to my eternal presence if you realised I was there as a self-appointed bodyguard . ’ |
| 6 | Antoine might have been blind on all normal frequencies but he knew how to assemble his do-it-yourself rig by touch and she marvelled at his deftness . |
| 7 | NOT CONTENT with Physics or Maths homework 25 years ago , a group of young men wanted something more than the usual pastime so they built a railway . |
| 8 | Phil got up from the bed abruptly and turned away with an awkward gesture — his usual response when he felt insulted . |
| 9 | ‘ In Germany there is more emphasis on technical skills and I learned bricklaying while completing my education . |
| 10 | and it immediately dies down and then it 's okay , but there was this tremendous roar and a loud click and it went out . |
| 11 | It was a strange coincidence that he made his final sailing to America on the day that his closest friend , Mr Huddlestone , was buried . |
| 12 | He was dissecting a gland-like mushroom as he spoke , clearly in order to illustrate his telepathy . |
| 13 | This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time . |
| 14 | He was the man in charge of H3 , and he spoke with his émigré parents ' guttural Central European accent although he had been born in Ipswich , and he had been in H area for 26 years . |
| 15 | He opened the boomgate and Whitlock gave him a friendly wave as he drove past on his way to the visitors ' car park . |
| 16 | She was not used to searching through his private possessions but she needed to learn the truth before he returned home . |
| 17 | In the latter half of the twentieth century , belief in Sandys ' nuclear philosophy counted for less than the political opportunity that it provided for ending National Service . |
| 18 | Imagine if your local electrical store allowed you to take a TV home for a month to sample its quality before parting with your money , you would be sure you had made the right decision before it cost you the earth . |
| 19 | I could n't kick a door if I was sat on the bloody latch so I had to do something else . ’ |
| 20 | She felt him pushing her backwards on the overstuffed settee and she let him . |
| 21 | Of her time at Somerville Sue comments : ‘ I 'm afraid I got far more from my extra-curricular activities than I did from my studies ’ . |
| 22 | But could that not be a new chance for a man to find in later life ‘ an emotional experience that he missed when his children were young ’ ? |
| 23 | FORGET the sangria and San Miguels , England got a slimline tonic when they arrived in Spain yesterday … in the shape of Paul Gascoigne . |
| 24 | As soon as he confessed what he knew , fumbling the hideous admission as they came out of a rather good film about love that he had hardly been able to stand , she managed to make it seem that it was he , not she , who was the disturber of their lives . |
| 25 | At midday Romany cut the engines , and Milhaez steered the barge into a narrow inlet where we moored between the bank and a low island of reeds and stunted palms . |
| 26 | Yet unemployment undoubtedly helped to speed up the Liberal decline and Labour rise since it highlighted the rigidity of the immediate post-war Liberal Party which was clearly unwilling to adapt its policies and ideas on free trade to the new demands of the age . |
| 27 | Grundy , had a weak case because she owed much of her success to Neighbours . |
| 28 | The hearth had been very badly damaged in Georgian times and somebody had just dug a pit straight through the middle of it , perhaps for drainage . |
| 29 | The Women For Socialism Conference was an attempt to build some kind of an alliance or unity between left Labour women and women outside organising in Women 's groups across a fairly broad spectrum and it did n't succeed in the totality of its aims certainly . |
| 30 | ‘ I think , ’ Nathan 's voice had an odd rasp as he pulled out a wad of papers and dropped them on the table , ‘ you 'd better get some sleep . |