Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though mainly public gallery owners , the ADAA numbers a handful of private dealers as well , admitted because of their stature in the field or because they took their public concerns private . |
| 2 | I did n't think of her ; I ca n't say I went because I respected her decision or because I thought it was in her interest ; I knew it was n't in her interest , or mine , or ours . |
| 3 | Darwin realized that many secondary sexual differences were a consequence of the greater intensity of competition between males for access to mates and that many traits were more highly developed in males either because they conferred an advantage in fights or because they rendered their possessor more attractive to females . |
| 4 | The same attitude is recognizable in the fragments of the histories of Posidonius , the pupil of Panaetius who , amidst all his philosophical work , decided to become the continuator of Polybius for the period after 146 B.C. It is uncertain whether Posidonius concluded his histories with the events of Sulla 's dictatorship or whether he extended them to include the Eastern wars of Pompey . |
| 5 | Either because he had the hump or because he thought it would make for a good show he started smashing the footlights one by one . |
| 6 | He remembers Mr Lamont using a gold Access card and that he signed his name simply Norman Lamont . |
| 7 | I did his tape copy on the machine I was using for echo and it was switched to vari-speed , so the copy was played at almost half the speed and when he got it home and wanted to play it to his friends , it sounded rather strange . |
| 8 | Bream are not great fighters and if you got one on then you knew it would stay on ; the trouble was getting one on in the first place ! |
| 9 | I went back to bathe my eyes and when I returned I could not see them . ’ |
| 10 | Our unwound watches lay in our rucksacks and when they stopped we followed the pattern of night and day instead . |
| 11 | A woman in the audience/church left in the middle of the performance/wedding and as she left she trod on the foot of the man at the end of the row . |
| 12 | But seeing Damien made her lose concentration and before she knew what was happening she found herself boxed in yet again . |
| 13 | ‘ And he tried to put his tongue in my mouth and when he pulled me in the doorway he — he unfastened the front of his trousers . ’ |
| 14 | Meredith went out to fetch the tea and when she returned he went on , ‘ This is an official visit , actually . ’ |
| 15 | just whatever one come up first you went for the interview and if you answered it you just took it . |
| 16 | Anyway he looked like that he had a red car and he was sitting in the car and he put them down like that and they were like that in the car and after I thought I should 've popped at her house see if she 's wearing that in the house I thought you git . |
| 17 | The family did not own a car and so they made their journey by coach . |
| 18 | Today we 'll be talking about all those guarantees that you 've seen when you bought your car and when you bought your refrigerator and when you 've bought almost anything nowadays , because people are being spoiled for choice on guarantees it seems . |
| 19 | WHEN WE first got to New York , the reporters met the boat and because they printed our names in the papers the Stage Door Johnnies started pestering us ; they were a completely different sort from the European ones . |
| 20 | Six years on , the family moved to Ugthorpe Lodge on the Whitby moors , a hotel with caravan site and smallholding where Mr Chance also had stables and where he involved himself with the Goathland Pony Club . |
| 21 | As a result , the weeks passed , and the months and before they knew it , it was years . |
| 22 | There was uproar when the Navy discovered the mines and Stirling had to own up , only to be told that they often dropped small depth charges at random into the harbour and if they saw anything suspicious sprayed the area with machine guns . |
| 23 | There were definite signs of something in the wind and when I saw who we were drawn with for the first rounds — Nick Price and Ray Floyd — both Nick and I were delighted . |
| 24 | Sometimes his fingers strayed between her lips and when she closed her mouth she accidentally sucked on them . |
| 25 | He had gone to the airfield intending to buy a car but when he checked it out he discovered it was stolen . |
| 26 | I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate . |
| 27 | He wrote not to tell her this nor to send her any kind of greeting but because he wanted her to do something for him . |
| 28 | There followed a time of uncertainty and bloodshed which was eventually resolved when the republic developed into an empire with Augustus as its first emperor from 27 B.C. The Augustan period from then until his death in A.D. 14 was one of the great and successful ages of man and , architecturally , this is reflected in the many great buildings which were erected under the auspices of Augustus whose boast was that when he came to Rome it was a city of bricks but that he left it a city of marble . |
| 29 | What way they dried them , whether it was in the sun or if they 'd anything to dry them with , I do n't ken . |
| 30 | Sometimes , when she was startled or frightened on my fist or as I approached her , it was painful to think that I might be responsible for her fear . |