Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [conj] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Portsmouth defence creaked but it never cracked as Andy Mutch and Sean Taylor tried to get a goal . |
| 2 | For a brief moment , she actually thought he would defy the old man , but then her heart sank when he sheepishly replied , ‘ Perhaps it would be for the best , dear . ’ |
| 3 | The black wings and running-board set off the sober mole colour of the body , and the President glowed as he proudly explained the working of the controls and gear lever , opened the doors to display the interior with its adjustable foot-rests for the rear-seat passengers and obliged a request from one admirer to see how much space there was in the luggage compartment at the back . |
| 4 | The superintendent asked if he really meant what he had just said . |
| 5 | His department said that it only kept records of strikes lasting more than three days and involving more than 100 people . |
| 6 | Concerning videotapes , the Head of Department said that he only held two which were shared with another department ( i.e. were constantly reused ) and that he could not afford to build up a library of them . |
| 7 | An FDA spokesperson said that they now anticipated approaches from companies proposing changes to their labels . |
| 8 | The investigation of firing showed that it certainly did n't help healing , causing the horse considerable distress for no good reason . |
| 9 | As she hesitated , Tug found that he desperately wanted to know what she would say . |
| 10 | The children were terrified when the flood happened and I just do not think they would want to come back . ’ |
| 11 | An analysis of news originating anywhere away from the line-of-rail showed that it frequently came from such a tour , which shows what difficulty the news media had in getting rural news . |
| 12 | This impressive record began when they both joined in 1950 , Alex as a bank boy in the Wilton department and Jean as a trainee in Spool Setting . |
| 13 | I had not gone far before the rain started and it soon became a sluicing downpour that never abated all day . |
| 14 | Clare 's newfound , short-term leisure meant that she now enjoyed cooking instead of seeing it as an added , rushed , three-times-a-day chore to fit in around earning her living . |
| 15 | Anselm associated himself with their point of view whole-heartedly , though the community felt that he never did quite enough . |
| 16 | In that moment he blinked , jerked back his head , blenched , contorted his lips , and then , as the shock was absorbed , the splinter tugged free of his flesh , his body relaxed and he casually lowered his arm . |
| 17 | The hurt look vanished and she promptly forgot about her hair . |
| 18 | The Duchess giggled as he then picked up his guitar and sang Michael Row The Boat Ashore . |
| 19 | KEVIN PRESSMAN last night revealed that he still wants to leave Sheffield Wednesday — even though he has just signed a new three-and-a-half year contract . |
| 20 | The great day came when I finally untied him . |
| 21 | And I , I 'm going to be working from behind Denise because you all need to see , but you would be working from the front as I 've already talked about , so you need your triangular bandage , alright , and there 's your long edge , and there 's your point as we call it , a sort of elbow shaped , think of that as elbow shaped because it always goes towards the injured elbow . |
| 22 | Of the three informants ( 10% ) who marked it , at this late stage , as an SF element , two indicated that they only read a small amount of SF , and the other said that she never read anything of the genre . |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman said that he personally does not want a fourth boat . |
| 24 | I do n't know when this story started but it certainly happened a long time ago . |
| 25 | AI stated that it strongly feared that the refugee population would be at risk of certain torture , ‘ disappearance ’ or execution if returned to Iraqi Government control . |
| 26 | And er one day I was bathing Judy in the hut and the bell went and I just had to wrap a towel round her , you know , and run down to the sandy wadders And things got so bad , we went back to Khartoum |
| 27 | In answer to this the respondents who were in favour of this clause and its enforcement said that they now deemed that the sale agreements were null and void and they began to sell another brand of petrol at both garages . |
| 28 | ‘ Look at you , ’ my father said when I eventually came down in my dressing-gown to watch an old movie on the television that afternoon . |
| 29 | ‘ A friend of yours ? ’ the other man asked as he too rose , but more slowly . |
| 30 | On 7 June 1786 the society noted that it still lacked information on which to base any specific resolution for the encouragement of scientific farriery and the matter was put aside . |