Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after this I embarked on another essay , under what stimulus I do not now remember ; but I had formed the habit , not of revising or tinkering with an unsatisfactory piece , but of writing something else instead . |
| 2 | This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain . |
| 3 | This he did with such success that within the next few years his name became a byword throughout Spain . |
| 4 | But nineteen thirteen I went to this examination and it was called a Labour Examination , and if you were able to pass this examination you could leave school at thirteen . |
| 5 | And I , that 's why I was wondering er how much you did on that front really . |
| 6 | In 1898 he worked for some months in Naples on the evolution of small sharks , and then became a demonstrator in the natural history department of St Andrews University . |
| 7 | There was such regret , such a bleakness in his eyes that Lissa turned away , her soul crying out in anguish because it was plain for anyone to see how much he cared for this woman who had betrayed him . |
| 8 | It 's interesting though that that you talked about that sort of identifying with the old companies , even in the nationalization days . |
| 9 | I go to college now I 'm doing my G C S Es and I 'm enjoying them very much and I 'm glad I went onto that course first . |
| 10 | When we were taking away three we went in this direction , for three . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've got a feeling Mr. Preston , that I 'm going to be very grateful we ran into each other tonight . ’ |
| 12 | As long as I was forced to stay awake I shrank from any stimulus to sensation ; now I relax and welcome the fading sensations until they are extinct , and for a few minutes will notice impressions of which I am normally unaware , such as the twilight images on the edge of consciousness . |
| 13 | All I knew at that stage was that the girls had drowned in a sailing accident . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sure I came through this junction . |
| 15 | So he made sure she failed on all counts . |
| 16 | At any other time she would have recognised the bitter note of personal experience in his voice , but all she wanted at that moment was to flee before her worst fears were realised . |
| 17 | While royal pundits agreed that she appeared to have emerged victorious , getting all she wanted from this month 's separation from Prince Charles , there was one bleak scenario that darkened her horizon . |
| 18 | You see , this , where we young we 've had all the youth organisations which most of us belong to , that 's all we had in those days . |
| 19 | Well the fact that we 've got three there , there there that 's how many we got on that card and we were quite happy about that . |
| 20 | A delegation from the opposition Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) , was in Singapore to try to make sure it stuck to that pledge . |
| 21 | As early as 1899 he wrote on this theme in England 's Peril , and in 1906 in The Invasio n of 1910 he forecast World War I with the approbation and collaboration of the first Earl Roberts [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | And how the only strokes they knew were those they practised on each other 's bodies . ) |
| 23 | At first I thought of these ideas as jewels formed in a matrix of rock like a diamond or like a fragile vase fired in a kiln at Ching-Te-Chin — an emperor 's gift . |
| 24 | ‘ Are you saying that when I showed you Milada Pankracova 's letter to Cara , that was the first you knew of any interview ? ’ she asked , still feeling a shade staggered and needing a little more clarification . |
| 25 | How foolishly happy she had been earlier that evening , and how ridiculous she felt at this moment , all her dreams crushed and shattered around her slowly dragging feet . |
| 26 | But during the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic they occurred in such profusion in inshore sediments that they are frequently important components of the rocks in which they are found . |
| 27 | And when I pretended to be a horse I got so excited I bumped into this litter bin and fell over . |
| 28 | Was genuine he added at this time that er the further information was that the occupants of the flat at were frightened of . |
| 29 | In the 1960s he worked for several years in industry , including a period as Chief Architect at Camus , before being appointed Head of the Architectural Division at the National Building Agency . |
| 30 | In 1938 it atoned for these failings . |