Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] in [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had lifted her into his arms before she could protest , although in truth she hardly felt in any condition to trek back up the incline towards the barn . |
| 2 | There she once sat in some sort of castle , or not , reading , for sure , the literature of Romanticism , and growing up to resemble — in the opinion of the writer 's aunt , the historian C. B. A. Behrens — a character out of Lermontov . |
| 3 | Mademoiselle was n't quite sure whether she really believed in this spider or not . |
| 4 | After that , she never washed in any water but cold water except when she could borrow a steaming kettle from her aunt in order to wash herself piecemeal in the kitchen or the cramped wash-basin in the bathroom . |
| 5 | Consequently , first thing in the morning when we were all trying to get ready , we constantly got in each other 's way . |
| 6 | Because of our volunteer system and our love of the job I think we always succeeded in this aim . |
| 7 | And er another thing that we never did in those school er very very very rarely did a boy erm oh what did we use to call it ? |
| 8 | Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth . |
| 9 | ‘ Wherever we aimed , they always fired in another direction , ’ Nicholas said . |
| 10 | Although Tocqueville and Marx emphasized different features in the development of European and North American societies in the nineteenth century , they both recognized in some way the interplay of economic and political forces : Tocqueville by associating democracy with the values of an agricultural and commercial middle-class society , and by noting the possible implications of the incipient class divisions within manufacturing industry ; Marx by giving prominence to the political struggles of the working class as a movement to extend democracy , whether in his account ( in 1852 ) of the Chartist demand for universal suffrage as being , if realized , ‘ a far more socialist measure than anything which has been honoured with that name on the Continent ’ , or in his later analysis of the Paris Commune ( 1871 ) as a new form of democratic government , as ‘ the political form at last discovered under which to work out the emancipation of labour ’ . |
| 11 | He apparently continued in this office until 1655 , when , with essentially unchanged duties , he was appointed one of the two chamberlains of the Exchequer and keeper of its records . |
| 12 | He thus pioneered in this country the discursive , witty , exuberant , and surrealist style of humour he bequeathed to his close friend J. B. Morton [ q.v. ] , who took the column over in 1924 and developed it through half a century into an art form . |
| 13 | He also put in that air-vent on the wall between his room and this one . ’ |
| 14 | He then repeated in more detail the amazing ride in the Glory and the horrendous first sighting of the Worm . |
| 15 | ‘ He then invested in another horse . ’ |
| 16 | He never went in this mornin' , and he 's knocked on every door in Foley Street . |