Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb past] [pron] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Nick Darke 's Kissing the Pope , however , the Sandinistas are given unequivocal white-hat status : a visit to Nicaragua apparently convinced him and his director Roger Michell that that unhappy land was ‘ one of the world 's few areas of moral black and white ’ . |
| 2 | Ken suddenly left him and went into a doorway of Hamleys , the big toy shop . |
| 3 | Dr Mirabilis just ignored him and held up his hands , calming the clamour and good natured cat calls . |
| 4 | Ken once told him that he greatly envied his ‘ Carry On ’ mate Charles Hawtrey . |
| 5 | By Friday evening Toby Freely congratulated himself that the boarding block was beginning to return to normal . |
| 6 | Despite some unnecessary barracking from supporters , Mr Singh certainly enjoyed himself and got behind the team . |
| 7 | They played together co-operatively with a set of cars but once Tom decided that one of the cars was his favourite Sue quietly took it when he was n't looking . |
| 8 | He walked away without responding to that and Ruth just hated it when he left her snappy bitchiness hanging in the air with no place to go . |
| 9 | HARRY DEAN STANTON once told me that during the filming of 1984 's Paris , Texas , he wandered alone into the desert after a tiff with the director , Wim Wenders . |
| 10 | Anthony once told me that he thinks ‘ bodily fidelity is wholly irrelevant ’ , ’ she quoted bitterly . |
| 11 | Suspecting that the compass was playing up again , Wood altered course by 5° but after another 20 minutes Darwin still informed them that they were north of course . |
| 12 | She had thought it would be a pity not to have him around any longer : Rachel and Maggie both liked him and she had not told either of them about his wife . |
| 13 | It is true that policy-makers in Washington often saw themselves as using financial inducements to compel the British to act as they desired . |
| 14 | Cynics might doubt his commitment to social security , as he introduced himself as the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry ( his previous job ) , but in his usual good-humoured style , Frank Field simply thanked him and said they would recommend him to Downing Street for a new job because of his social security knowledge . |
| 15 | His son Kieran then succeeded him and retained his seat there until 1989 when he did not seek re-election . |
| 16 | The Earl of Shrewsbury once told me that when he walked in the park , Wolsey would suffer no one to come within bowshot of him . |
| 17 | Alain carefully ignored her until it was time to go and she watched his car sweep from the house with very mixed feelings . |
| 18 | In 1972 , Cooper legally adopted him as his son , as much to disinherit his own family as to ensure that under French law , most of his estate would go to his ‘ son ’ . |
| 19 | I do n't think Martin even liked him although he never said so . |
| 20 | Helen never intended her As It Was to be an accurate account of their young lives , and there are no letters because they met often . |
| 21 | Richards , who admitted United had been in touch with Francis , revealed : ‘ Alex Ferguson also telephoned me and suggested talks at chairman level might be useful . |
| 22 | Murray later asked him if he wanted drugs , but he refused . |
| 23 | Walpole later described him as ‘ an able geometrician and an exquisite architect , and of the purest taste both in the Grecian and Gothic styles … my oracle in taste , the standard to whom I submitted my trifles , the genius that presided over poor Strawberry ’ ; and from c .1753 onwards he designed much of the exterior , as well as a number of the interiors . |
| 24 | Well Ka Kathy 's actually , Kathy really surprised me cos I , she was , did n't appear shallow at all last night . |
| 25 | Randhawa and Khan then approached her and Randhawa threatened to blow her and her family up . |
| 26 | Lindsey almost flinched herself as she made a gentle examination of the blistered area . |
| 27 | But Jim really hurt her because erm when she was going out with him he was a virgin and then erm they came back , you notice things were a bit sort of sort of on the rocks when they came back at first ? |
| 28 | Since registration forms are usually despatched in the autumn , and in any event well before this last election was announced , Ms Heseltine obviously knew something that the rest of us did n't . |
| 29 | But Mr. Munby so treated them because , in his submission , section 8 conferred complete autonomy on such minors , thus enabling them effectively to refuse medical treatment irrespective of how parental responsibilities might be sought to be exercised . |
| 30 | Irene suddenly saw her and started to nudge everyone . |