Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No he 'd love that though cos he could come round and go shit I 've just come out of rehab and everyone would go oh wow man you must be really drugged out . |
| 2 | Paige glanced up from the rock she had wearily sunk on to . |
| 3 | The unmotive you have vaguely hit on turns out to be that the fellow was obsessively jealous of his wife who was , as would be evident to everybody else , so obsessively faithful to him that no question of jealousy could arise . |
| 4 | On the back of their expected thirty thousand pound cash injection they 've already taken on extra staff . |
| 5 | He is convinced this is the best Fermanagh side he has ever played on , and adamant that the county 's emergence is no overnight success . |
| 6 | In this particular Mess I had hardly sat down before I felt completely at home , and before I had finished the meal , I had made up my mind that if this particular unit would have me , this was where I would stay . |
| 7 | It 's about this research proposal you 've just turned down — what do you mean , ‘ It 's not proper health services research ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Gabriel , though he felt as crushed as the thistle she had just stood on . |
| 9 | In effect this was a period of withdrawal from a rigidly structured police world to a world turned upside down ; where , in a ‘ counter-cultural ’ way , we were to find that the strict terms of reference we had carefully built up over the years no longer seemed to have relevance . |
| 10 | Diana seemed distressed , rushing around in a distracted way — oblivious , it seemed to me , of the work we had all put in for her brother 's wedding . |
| 11 | A skill he has obviously picked up under the guidance of Dalglish . |
| 12 | He led me into the hut he had just come out of |
| 13 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 14 | Friends from the council he had once served on . |
| 15 | Alone , Franca washed her face in cold water in the kitchen , washing off the powder she had just put on . |
| 16 | Advertising should be based on the accurate job description you have already drawn up , so that the right sort of people will recognize themselves . |
| 17 | Now , in the middle of the biggest case she had ever worked on , she had problems of a much larger scale and Kate was aware that her life would never be the same again . |
| 18 | Although judging by the telex you 've already tracked down the plutonium . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ This is the best all-round team I have ever played in . |
| 20 | And Pearce said : ‘ Villa are the strongest team I have ever come up against in League football . |
| 21 | Kate , a veteran of several battle zones , added : ‘ This is without doubt the most dangerous place I have ever worked in . ’ |
| 22 | A sound I have often read about , but never knowingly heard , is the scream produced by male badgers . |
| 23 | I thought of the most dedicated cricket fanatic I had ever known back in South Africa — a man who despite repeated heart attacks , doctors ' warnings and family entreaties to stop playing the game , had persisted with club cricket to the end , in his sixties diving after slip catches as recklessly as he had in his teens . |
| 24 | The place you 've just written about helps you to feel at ease , to feel nourished , warm , loved . |
| 25 | When I got to my room they 'd already brought in my things and Karen , she 's my key worker , she helped me unpack . |
| 26 | After this decade of maximum development the stream of migrants dwindled until by the end of the Victorian era it had more-or-less dried up . |
| 27 | Modigliani arrived with a box of paints and a canvas he had already worked on . |
| 28 | ‘ I hope you know how much self-discipline I have just summoned up . |
| 29 | You know you th either come back and they 're embracing each other and cuddling and there 're a few tears and everything and er everything 's hunkydory and you start traipsing back in with all the bloody stuff you 've just brought out from beforehand you see . |
| 30 | But it was a tersely worded compliment , and as he turned to take an olive from the tray of hors-d'oeuvres already laid out on a side-table , her stabbing disappointment told Belinda that he was the person she had really dressed up for today , though what she wanted to prove to him she did n't quite know . |