Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Grant Hall Hotel was next door to Zion United Church where I still spent many weekday evenings in boys ' work , and it was now handy to finish at the church and then cross over to the radio station for the late night shift . |
| 2 | Software development , especially in areas such as taxonomic and other scientific computing , has been a major area of weakness , where we definitely lacked in-house expertise prior to the appointment of a Taxonomic Computing specialist . |
| 3 | ‘ But at the time I do n't think Kylie or anybody else had any idea of the phenomenal success she would have . |
| 4 | But they said that it was a different matter over in the west , around Appleby way , where they generally paid more money but worked you very hard and gave you little meat . |
| 5 | It should be clear from the previous chapters that although I still had some sense of personal identity when I became anorexic , I simply did not have the opportunity or know-how to form an Eriksonian ego identity . |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't remember that I ever saw that page . ’ |
| 7 | I was enjoying Oxford so much that I sometimes forgot that moment in Clare 's bedroom when I made my decision about my future vocation . |
| 8 | ‘ These people got abusive because we would n't take their drugs so I just grabbed this bag of s*** and poured it over the floor . |
| 9 | ‘ All my school life , I was under the impression I was not completely stupid but pretty dumb so I never had that oomph . |
| 10 | During the struggle police said Annie Murphy injured her foot , although she later refused medical treatment . |
| 11 | Brown remained her adviser for over a decade , although she also sought occasional assistance from the painter ( Sir ) Edward Burne-Jones [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | Although she never showed any interest in what I was up to at university , she often asked questions about the East End and seemed fascinated by my stories of Charlie Trumper and his barrow . |
| 13 | Dr Neil wanted to tell her to be careful , that she really had little idea of how hard and cruel the world was outside the privileged fastness in which she had previously lived , but he contented himself with saying instead , ‘ Have a good time , McAllister . |
| 14 | He had looked after his younger brothers and sister , he had made sure that she always had enough money , but she had been hearing things of late that had frightened her . |
| 15 | Helen amused herself with the pretence that she always lived this way . |
| 16 | She prayed that Steve would n't see the truth — that she still loved that man , passionately , even though he had deceived her so , and that her heart was breaking inside her . |
| 17 | Naturally she pointed out that she never sought this adulation , quite the opposite , and was frankly horrified by media attention . |
| 18 | It seemed that bingo afternoons left her so exhausted both physically and emotionally that she never had enough energy left to cook an evening meal . |
| 19 | The Dalek 's power was conducted through the floors so you instantly dismissed any idea of the city being built from house bricks . |
| 20 | As we get older and perhaps more worldly , it is sometimes awkward to admit that we ever believed such nonsense , and even more difficult to admit that not everything we imbibed was bad or wrong . |
| 21 | He performed his tasks at WGIC apparently too well , so that we subsequently had great difficulty in getting him back ! |
| 22 | I was paid for the lessons not in money but in food , so we always had enough oil , sugar , cheese and butter — commodities that were now difficult to obtain . |
| 23 | But there is every reason to suppose that there already existed that division which makes the Church of the later Middle Ages so strangely resemble a military hierarchy , with the upper clergy as commissioned officers , the rural deans and archpriests as N.C.O.s , and the parish clergy as privates . |
| 24 | While admitting that some of this funding could have displaced other funding sources — for example , technicians in short supply would likely have found alternative work — the authors of the report , Robin Brighton and Virginia Aschas , say that they also found clear evidence of economic gain . |
| 25 | My mother is a very nurturing woman , says Kate Burton , their elder daughter , I know that they just suited each other perfectly at that time . |
| 26 | I ca n't say whether this is true or not but I have been told , it was spoke about when I was a kid , that they never saw each other except if they were both of the same religion . |
| 27 | Furthermore , the idea the Egyptians had of an eternal and immutable world meant that they never imagined any evolution of social conditions . |
| 28 | The voiders lingered by the body , however , bright enough to know that they still had some duty to perform with it . |
| 29 | Not only were the staffing ratios higher in community-based services but the observation data also suggests that the staff were ‘ delivered ’ , in that they actually spent more time physically in the presence of clients ( staff were present in 91 per cent of observations in the houses and 86 per cent in the three ‘ campus ’ houses compared with 74 per cent in the hospital settings ) . |
| 30 | Also , if anybody 's not actually paid me for their book that they actually purchased last week , I 'm open to accept payment today . |