Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the man who waited with her crept to her shoulder and whispered in her ear , as he did several times between his nervous pacings about the room , she made him no answer , and never seemed even to be aware of him , though her braced tension made it plain that nothing that passed in this apartment escaped her instant notice . |
| 2 | His work matured , even if there is no question that he abused himself and died for that reason . |
| 3 | The man eyed Doyle contemptuously then muttered something to himself and moved to another table and sat down . |
| 4 | Then she raised her face to me and said with sad seriousness , |
| 5 | This was not done for imperial purposes , but once the navy had been developed it affected everything that happened in English policy . |
| 6 | She really wanted a cup of tea and she knew perfectly well that Glyn would serve her up something that looked like brown shoe polish . |
| 7 | Says Marcus Phipps , co-ordinator of the Orangutan Foundation 's Taiwan office : ‘ It 's a tragedy that something that began with such joy and expectation has ended so miserably . ’ |
| 8 | And that was something that went on all year |
| 9 | She poked again — dug right down to the bottom and up through the shambles came something that signalled with painful clarity . |
| 10 | He served not only on the Royal Commission for the reform of Oxford , but also on the one that looked into scientific education , and drafted most of its final report . |
| 11 | This ruling mirrored the previous one but applied to occupational pension schemes as opposed to the then state retirement ages . |
| 12 | She had a poise about her that spoke of some sort of inner peace and Jenna 's mind went back to her own mother — the beauty , the restless energy , the quick , sharp voice . |
| 13 | Louis leaned towards him and said with enormous venom , ‘ You 're in my way . ’ |
| 14 | Bradley turned to him and said with sudden vehemence : |
| 15 | Erm , cos I just thought he was guessing , you know , and he said he says , I did n't see him , he said I only saw him and pointed to this girl over the other side of the room he was standing beside you when you were in the chair . |
| 16 | Too late she remembered about the steep bank behind her and stepped into thin air . |
| 17 | The crew nodded at her and yelled in bloodthirsty assent . |
| 18 | Finally he moved his chair nearer to her and said with great feeling , ‘ I once thought that he was a liar and a thief . |
| 19 | He had turned on her and said with cold savagery , ‘ For fuck 's sake , stop kicking me , will you ? ’ |
| 20 | He poured it for her and watched with one eyebrow raised as she gulped at it . |
| 21 | ‘ I messed around with it and got into this thing of splitting up the amps because I always thought that the guitar was a bit flat in mono . |
| 22 | I dug into the War Bag , drew out the air-pistol , cocked it and fired in one movement . |
| 23 | He walked unhurriedly to the bottom of it and peered down Orange Street . |
| 24 | Joan Waters was included in it and acted as chief spokesman . |
| 25 | After a pause Perkin put his back towards Gareth and his face down near mine and asked with perfect calmness , ‘ Do you know who shot you ? ’ |
| 26 | He punched a volley which almost drove Chang into the court surrounds , yet the American not only reached it but responded at full stretch with a perfect lob ; quick-witted as well as fleet-footed play . |
| 27 | It is true that the Anglo-Norman aristocracy spoke French among themselves and wrote to each other in that language , long after they came to regard themselves as Englishmen . |