Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | painting the kitchen once and I got into so much trouble it took him so long to rub it all off and start again , he made me promise I 'd never touch a paint brush again but he I mean , he would definitely be able to tell you what paint he used and |
| 2 | I hung in there another year shredding a few more files saying maybe it was time I went back to the law and when I got this offer … |
| 3 | I signed for yet another year 's work , Social Psychology . |
| 4 | It was while filming at this den that I heard of yet another place , only a few miles up the Wye , where mink had been seen killing mallard chicks . |
| 5 | I went to as many classes as I could , although as they worked college terms they did n't start until September and I arrived in July . |
| 6 | I spoke to as many reinforcements as I possibly could , especially those who had just arrived from Achnacarry . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm just curious , ’ I said with as much innocence as I could muster , ‘ but of course , if you 're scared of the place … ’ |
| 8 | Relic terraces and raised fields in the Mayan lowlands of Central America have been interpreted as indicative of a settled , sophisticated , intensive , prehistoric agriculture , rather than shifting cultivation , which collapsed for just these reasons . |
| 9 | Mr Reynolds looked back also to an era of ‘ bureaucratic and commercial indifference which was perhaps understandable in the light of history but nevertheless misguided ’ and which resulted in even more destruction than was caused by the Troubles , such as of Coole Park ( the inspiration for two of Yeats 's most famous poems ) and of Bowenscourt in the 1960s , as well as much of Dublin 's eighteenth-century architecture . |
| 10 | However , I know of repeated pleas for action and the despair of so many small firms , one of which resulted in yet another suicide of someone whom I knew , resulting from business failure . |
| 11 | During the 1970s the Community was preoccupied with enlargement of the Community , institutional crises such as the Luxembourg accords , following the refusal of France to accept qualified majority ruling in the Council of Minsters , frequent budgetary difficulties and differences of view as to how the Community should be financed which resulted in very little progress towards the achievement of a single market . |
| 12 | Thus from the start he was temperamentally disposed to look not only at strategies which promised to save money but also at those which offered at least some hope ( if not of winning the Cold War ) of making gains at the expense of the USSR . |
| 13 | It is similarly unconvincing for UKOOA to say that it is not within its remit to consider trade union or labour relations when the Select Committee was presented with a previous UKOOA agreement and understanding dating from the 1970s , which dealt with exactly these points . |
| 14 | That 's probably why she got through so many women . |
| 15 | The room , reached this time from the veranda , was just as lovely as she had remembered , and after folding some clothes neatly in drawers and hanging the rest on satin-padded hangers in the wardrobe she fussed for quite some time with the scanty collection of knick-knacks she had brought , trying to arrange them so that they harmonised with the tranquil simplicity of the décor . |
| 16 | ‘ What are you doing here ? ’ she asked with as much control as she could muster . |
| 17 | ‘ Of course , ’ she replied with far more confidence than she actually felt . |
| 18 | When she woke next morning , she knew at once that Water Gypsy was on the move . |
| 19 | Not until her mid-thirties did she find her taste change , and even then by chance , as good manners constrained her to eat what she had for so many years quite strenuously resisted . |
| 20 | To the prison guards he was a dangerous criminal , but to me he was an unfortunate man , who had at least some goodness in him . |
| 21 | Louise , who had been her comfort , buffer and rescuer so many times in the past ; Louise , who had in so many ways been more of a mother to her than Nora ; Louise , who even now had lost none of her vigour and strength of personality . |
| 22 | Shivers running through her , she said with as much insouciance as she could muster , ‘ I 'm very tired , and it 's work tomorrow . |
| 23 | ‘ So you 're Bob 's … assistant ? ’ she said with too much inflection . |
| 24 | Letting me think that you slept with so many men you did n't have the first idea who the father was ! ’ |
| 25 | Everyone knows Margaret as she travelled between so many departments . |
| 26 | erm and bearing in mind Mr 's comments about er could he have thought we translated into rather more layman 's language and say well the capacity of the roads do actually deliver and extract people from Gatwick mathematical modelling is pretty suspect stuff but erm but at least it would er if that is true if it is not capable of actually er sensibly erm er allowing arrivals and departures er onto our road network without causing I think all they 're doing is pushing the problem onto us er and we ought |
| 27 | We went to so much trouble because we were aware of the power of cultural conditioning . |
| 28 | We looked for too little back-up , naively taking on too much , like driving the women to and from the centre . |
| 29 | I thought of the chessplayers in the Park , where we sat for so many hours , the chessplayers , more various by far than the pieces they wielded ( the players not erect , not regulated , but mumbling , shambling , rhomboid ) . |
| 30 | We shall have to ask ourselves in the next lecture to what extent they succeeded with so little Latin at their disposal . |