Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y . |
| 2 | The outside stitches can now be removed , or I sometimes leave them as a trimming , worked in a contrasting colour . |
| 3 | Tell yourself ‘ Writing this letter will be easy and fun ’ ( not that it ‘ wo n't be difficult ’ , or you still associate it with the word ‘ difficult ’ ) . |
| 4 | On 18 December 1689 the anniversary of William 's first entrance into London was cele-brated with a huge procession through the City , as crowds carried effigies of James 's chief ministers through the streets to Temple Bar , where they ritualistically hanged them at a " triple galloes " set up next to a great bonfire . |
| 5 | She clung to him as he charged up the stairs and into her bedroom where he unceremoniously dumped her on the bed . |
| 6 | Well perhaps it need n't where he just had plenty of porridge |
| 7 | Where he actually shot somebody with a sawn off shotgun . |
| 8 | Her hand throbbed beneath his where he still trapped it on the table . |
| 9 | For the second lot , he may have another code which I do n't have or he just knows them by heart . |
| 10 | Magnus was either dragged out of sanctuary from a church on Egilsay or he voluntarily surrendered himself to his enemies . |
| 11 | I am glad you like Mr. Gould : — he has been always very obliging to me — although I never knew him till lately : Mrs. G. appears an exceedingly pleasant & amiable woman . |
| 12 | although I never see her on Wednesday night . |
| 13 | Having read that I immediately repent me in dust and ashes for having committed a dreadful grammatical error . |
| 14 | So tail-waggingly , bone-snafflingly puppyish that I nearly tickled him under the ears . |
| 15 | You must understand that I never meant anything like this to happen . |
| 16 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 17 | I 'm just lucky really that I never cut myself to any extent , because if I had tried to ring my bell , they would have said , ‘ Tough , wait until the morning . ’ |
| 18 | I am sorry to say that I never heard her at her best because of circumstances . |
| 19 | ‘ You know the bad consequence of my laying myself under unnecessary obligation , and you will therefore take care that I only do it for real Friends that I can depend upon , ’ the member of parliament warned . |
| 20 | After much ‘ mickey-taking ’ , I informed every lady that I only bought one in order to get some change for Sue to go to the toilet ( 25p a time — whatever happened to the expression ‘ spending a penny ’ ) . |
| 21 | I 've got to be made to realize that I only love him for what I can get out of it . |
| 22 | It is a source of some sadness to me that I now find myself on the other side of the fence from Samuel Brittan in the debate on managed and fixed currencies . |
| 23 | So much so that I deliberately avoided anything outside it which might affect my emotions or disturb my thoughts . |
| 24 | This much was true , that I often found myself in my mother 's kitchen staring at the array of condiments , spices , herbs and tinned foods , wondering why she should have bought this particular kind of split peas , rather than another . |
| 25 | Not that I really expected them to ; I could hardly expect the Umpire to side with me so soon . |
| 26 | I used to watch him sleep , wondering what bloody crimes lay in his past , and knowing that I alone protected him from a horrible death . |
| 27 | I once shocked him by admitting that I sometimes took it in my tea . |
| 28 | But she was still smiling at me , so I just tied it in a knot and left it . |
| 29 | There was no yardage chart in those days , but I worked out very quickly that Arnold was two clubs stronger than me , so I just put myself in the same situation and added on two clubs . |
| 30 | ‘ Because of the angle I had no chance of getting it over the bar with my right foot so I simply hit it with the left and it went over . ’ |