Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | what I most often heard when I phoned people a couple of days in was that it 's been the worst two days of my life ! |
| 2 | When he went home to Basle he showed the photographs to his family and pointed out to them ‘ my very good neighbour Canon Ramsay [ sic ] from Durham , an authentic Anglo-Catholic , with strange views concerning tradition , succession , ontology and so on , but also with a very convincing twinkle in his eye … a man with whom I more often agreed than disagreed … the outstanding figure in the picture of my first ecumenical experience ! ’ |
| 3 | It was n't that she had ever made a conscious decision to play the helpless female ; she just always looked as though she was in constant need of care and attention , and over the years she had found that it was far easier to allow people to think what they liked , because whenever she tried to be assertive , or explain that she was really quite competent , no one ever believed her . |
| 4 | It has 460 people on its books — all of them far better qualified than Macaulay Culkin in the hit film Home Alone — who are ready to take up temporary residence anywhere from John O'Groats to Land 's End . |
| 5 | Nor , when a more viable alternative does appear , are they necessarily much bothered if it reopens issues peripheral to the main line of advance which seemed to be already settled . |
| 6 | That element of realism has been evident in the papers issued by the APB over the last year , in particular those on expanding the auditors ' report and going concern , but nowhere is it more clearly shown than in the recently published The Future Development of Auditing ( see also this issue , pp 10 and 88 ) . |
| 7 | This was unusual , he almost never talked while he was working , but maybe he sensed that Jed wanted the silence filled and knew that Jed could n't do it on his own . |
| 8 | Suntanned now , he no longer looked as though he was dying of jaundice . |
| 9 | The Major had told us that he was plagued with poachers , particularly since the new road had been driven up the hill from the Aberfeldy side ; and that he very much doubted if there were any fish left in Loch a'Chait . |