Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pos pn] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lines from his nose to his mouth were deeper , his mouth was set in a grim line and his eyes were bleak , or perhaps her memory was at fault … but she knew it was n't ; she knew every inch of his face . |
| 2 | Her newly acquired temper seemed to have chased grief away for now , or maybe her mind was too shaken up with Alain and his dominance to linger on her father tonight , in spite of being in the house where he had lived . |
| 3 | Or maybe my accent was incomprehensible . |
| 4 | He seemed to want to help them or else his plan was much deeper than they knew . |
| 5 | Many police inquiries brought one or two of those to the fore and mostly their motive was the uncomplicated one of gaining praise and attention . |
| 6 | But she returned and eventually her husband was shot dead by her father . |
| 7 | They lived in a house in the Terrace , and eventually my father was sent to Ampleforth in Yorkshire , a Benedictine monastery which also ran a boarding school . |
| 8 | Just the touch of his chest pressing hard against her breasts , just the lightest fleeting brush of his thighs against hers , and suddenly her heart was weeping from the wanting of him . |
| 9 | And suddenly her heart was beating very fast , slamming against her ribcage like a demented hammer . |
| 10 | ‘ Both , ’ he said instantly , and suddenly his voice was urgent . |
| 11 | ‘ That figures , ’ he replied , and suddenly his face was working as though he was having a mighty battle not to break down . |
| 12 | And suddenly his father was n't there any more . |
| 13 | She added : ‘ I did n't see anything , just heard a loud noise , and suddenly my home was on fire . |
| 14 | They had faith , their faith was in themselves and in bailing out , and they could n't bail quick enough , and so their faith was not realizing anything it was n't producing the goods . |
| 15 | They called daemons and allied with Chaos and so their evil was plain for all to see . |
| 16 | She was Altun , and so her hair was red — a colour like a brightly burning fire . |
| 17 | But he saw her only as part of the furniture , and so her guilt was lessened . |
| 18 | There was no road at that time , and so her coffin was carried from Santo da Serra over the rough mountain tracks to Boaventura . |
| 19 | Aristotle ( 384–322 BC ) had created his philosophy while ambling in his sandals along the olive groves of the Lyceum in Athens and so his philosophy was dubbed ‘ Peripatetic ’ . |
| 20 | Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) that the applications to the district judge and the application for judicial review of his decisions had all been made by the applicant in a criminal cause because they related to the manner in which the district court trials should proceed , and so his appeal was not from a judgment of the High Court judge in a civil cause or matter within section 13(2) ( a ) of the Ordinance ; and that , therefore , since no other provision had conferred jurisdiction on the Court of Appeal to entertain the appeal , that court had correctly declined to hear it ( post , pp. 256G , 260E–F , G–H ) . |
| 21 | He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others . |
| 22 | I was keept there for seven months , and so my edication was worth no less than three shillin and sixpence — there 's for " ee ! |
| 23 | And perhaps her friend was right , Lisa thought to herself now as she sank back in her armchair in front of the gas fire , put her feet up at last and took a mouthful of her cocoa . |
| 24 | Mr Kallisher told the jury : ‘ The defendant tried to raise in the minds of the police a suspicion that Julie had been dealing with drugs stolen from the hospital and perhaps her murder was connected with that , not with him . ’ |
| 25 | When Gandalf says to Frodo of his wound on Weathertop , ‘ your heart was not touched , and only your shoulder was pierced ; and that was because you resisted to the last ’ , he may be making a moral statement ( Frodo was rewarded ) or a practical one ( he dodged , called out , struck back , put off the Ringwraith 's aim ) . |
| 26 | I could feel her soft breasts and noted how slender and long her neck was . |
| 27 | He says he knows cases where wives were n't given , and there were then very serious er conflicts broken up , because the man who did n't get the wife then thought he 'd been cheated and apparently his complaint was you know er wife I give you my foreskin . |
| 28 | Harley , however , was all over the course , but his short game and especially his putting was brilliant . |
| 29 | er yes I was saying erm they only had the midwives in them days did n't they , to come for the birth and that and anyway my mother was was ill enough to have to send for a doctor . |
| 30 | One who did put up was Ba Pe , but Aung San was nauseated by his persisting with the corrupt practices which had disfigured pre-war parliamentary politics : and anyway his usefulness was exhausted . |