Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frau Nordern agreed that he probably had been . |
| 2 | Labour was utilised more efficiently , and as well as being mindful of his employer 's interests , Barratt demonstrated that he also had a care for his workmen . |
| 3 | Finally , in a recent conversation , Anna Freud confirmed that it always remained one of her father 's favourite works and that he never doubted the correctness of its conclusions . |
| 4 | Yet in some strange way the bird seemed to have affected the easy relationship that had previously existed between them and , in trying to analyse her own feelings , Lucy knew that she now felt shy and rather embarrassed . |
| 5 | The SLORC had repeatedly offered her freedom on condition that she went into exile , but Aris said that she never discussed this " because she says that it is not negotiable " . |
| 6 | Jeremiah experienced God as a pain that invaded his every limb , and Muhammad said that he never received a revelation without feeling that his soul was being torn from his body . |
| 7 | and as he turned Marcus noticed that he too had a loose thread on his shirt . |
| 8 | Deeper and deeper Ruth sank till she nearly leapt out of the hired Suzuki at the gates and fled into the forest never to emerge again . |
| 9 | He motioned them both back to their seats and strode across to open a door but Maggie noticed that he also closed it behind him very firmly . |
| 10 | In the letter quoted above Wordsworth reiterated that he never said that God is Nature , or that Nature and God are the same ; what he ( and Hopkins ) stressed was ‘ the indwelling spirit ’ . |
| 11 | According to legend , Stalin replied that he too had greatly enjoyed himself , but had completely forgotten the contents of any agreement between the two and had , unfortunately , in the meantime , had the interpreter shot ! |
| 12 | Then Ruth saw that he deliberately gave the man who had asked the question only half the bacon ration he was entitled to . |
| 13 | In view of Nehru 's repeated rejections of the idea of any further association with Britain , this was a notable achievement , and there is no doubt that Mountbatten felt that it amply compensated for his acquiescence in partition . |
| 14 | His Central American agents and contacts were patted on the back , or sent into the field , with the words ‘ Vaya con Dios ’ , ( Go with God ) ; Calero remembered that he never left him without them . |
| 15 | But McNab continued as he always had , grave and rather lugubrious , knowing that given time , the " cholera cloud " would move on , too , and that his own view would come to be accepted but this would only happen imperceptibly and not , perhaps , like a cloud passing , but more in the way that sediment settles in a glass of muddy water . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I wo n't cry over spilt milk , ’ Karen said as she finally recovered the last smithereen of dog . |
| 17 | Nigel explained that he merely designed the lights , which were installed later . |
| 18 | Helen admitted that she rarely wears much make-up in the evening , apart from a little gold eyeshadow , blusher and lipstick . |
| 19 | But Coleridge found that he rather enjoyed the rolling of the deck , and held long and facetious conversations with a talkative fellow passenger . |
| 20 | The regulars and the heavy mob from Fleet Street arrived and we just managed to catch the last train to Cambridge . |
| 21 | Mavis blushed as she primly tried to quell the mounting hubbub . |
| 22 | Warnham and Calcraft died before we ever entered this play . |
| 23 | IT 'S business as usual , Bryan insisted as he finally emerged from his Chelsea home to face the press — but he had n't reckoned with PC — Police Clamper — Nigel Legge . |
| 24 | You 're having a go at me for what Penny and Natalie said and I never said it . |
| 25 | Burun wondered if anyone else had noticed it , and he spoke again to divert Sipotai 's attention . |
| 26 | The woman 's eyes were bold , and Burun wondered if she also shared Jagatan 's bed . |
| 27 | It was only after a passionate entreaty by his relative Lady Frances Wingfield , who lived in St. Martin 's , that Cromwell relented and he later presented the widowed countess of Burghley with a portrait of himself . |
| 28 | Franz asked as he reluctantly removed the plate from the table . |
| 29 | At breakfast the next morning Van Cheele realized that he still felt uncomfortable about yesterday 's adventure . |
| 30 | Eliot 's letter of 22 October confirmed that he still had not received details from the Club ; but he understandably felt that while he could accept our invitation to tea , he ought to reserve his position about dinner . |