Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that Susanna Cellini — or Belford-Cellini as she apparently preferred to be known — would be impressed , but neither could she be disparaging . |
| 2 | The school or LEA would have to show that , for example , a requirement which affected one group more than another and which therefore resulted in indirect discrimination , was justifiable irrespective of a person 's race . |
| 3 | He then decided he could make a better biplane than many that he daily worked upon and with his four brothers ( Tom , Mark , Bob and Ed ) , they built the first ‘ Gee Bee ’ . |
| 4 | Thomas was two years younger than I and I never met him till the year I left St. Paul 's School ( 1894 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ That is a worse reproach to me than any that she ever uttered . ’ |
| 6 | It all washed down and that and we never had any trouble . |
| 7 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 8 | She was feeling vulnerable and neglected , he was fun and rich and she clearly enjoyed his company . |
| 9 | He was so big and strong that I always felt hopelessly trapped in that chair with his bulk over me and the wheel grinding and the pedal thumping . |
| 10 | He obtained 103,244 votes ( 55.08 per cent ) in the second round , against 84,178 votes ( almost 45 per cent ) for Mohammed Taki , who had been Speaker of the National Assembly between 1980 and 1985 but who now represented the Union nationale pour la démocratie aux Comores ( UNDC ) . |
| 11 | The tow rope snapped twice on the way and was getting shorter and shorter before we eventually got to Darlington . |
| 12 | By the time the first sharp feelings of his loss had begun to wear off - it would be very many years before all of it did so , and arguable that it ever did — other voices were beckoning . |
| 13 | He was so tall and masculine that he probably went for the dainty feminine types . |
| 14 | And these because you always wanted to be able to adapt rooms for different purposes and this folded back against the wall . |
| 15 | During the Sixties and Seventies the systems gradually improved , the computer parts got more powerful and cheaper and it even became possible to get some sort of an idea as to what the page might look like . |
| 16 | They had experienced the uncertainties of the 1960s and 1970s and they now wanted stability . |
| 17 | I thought he looked so lost and unhappy that I just wanted to comfort him at first , and Chris says he just thought I was kind . |
| 18 | The photograph he wanted was all crushed and curled but he soon healed it with a squeeze of his fist … |
| 19 | And er until it became the time when the thing got smaller and smaller and we finally had to do away with that place . |
| 20 | One is left wondering whether it was a dream or one really had been listening to a man whose clothes and surroundings were obviously of little importance but who knew more Latin and Greek than one ever had , could quote the classics and poetry , would have one lost in the depths of philosophy , someone who was probably in a Gaelic world of his own and was translating into English for the benefit of his listener although the learning had largely been gathered in that language . |
| 21 | He had n't come prepared , he was cold , wet and hungry and he just wanted to go home , go to sleep and forget about everything , hoping it will all have disappeared in the morning . |
| 22 | The existence of radiation from black holes seems to imply that gravitational collapse is not as final and irreversible as we once thought . |
| 23 | He told magistrates to Aztecs the dog is sacred and ceremonial and he simply did n't know he needed a licence . |
| 24 | In East German they are now drowning in rubbish because they used to have a perfect recycling scheme everything was collected and recycled cos they just did n't have the materials . |
| 25 | Tall and slim , without the usual broad shoulders of the pace man , he had excelled at athletics as a youngster , with the result that he was a fast bowler like virtually no other ; his approach to the wicket was so soft and silky that he hardly seemed to touch the ground at all , and several umpires said that they were not able to hear him running in . |
| 26 | After I had styled my hair it felt very soft and silky and it also seemed much thicker and more glossy . |
| 27 | But it felt safe and familiar as it always did , with the sounds of chewing and the smell of sweat and cow-dung and half-eaten hay . |
| 28 | It was still as mellow and welcoming as it ever had been but now the pine panelling was softly golden , gleaming with wax polish . |
| 29 | It looks as quiet and peaceful as it always did . |
| 30 | It was very pleasant and peaceful and he almost forgot about the boy . |