Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could not associate him with any loss of dignity , or credit , or grace , not because he felt these too nearly and jealously , but because he wore and used them with as little thought as the breath he drew , and they were as natural a part of him , and like breath , when they left him they would leave him dead . |
| 2 | However , the TUC was careful to keep well away from the whole issue of such a boycott and the Court of Enquiry now provided them with yet another excuse to defer any further action . |
| 3 | If they had agreed a price the deal would have gone through just as SMS found itself in so much trouble with Volvo [ SMS was forced to resign the $40m Volvo account in early 1991 , after it was discovered the agency was rigging performance advertisements ] . |
| 4 | Since Ruth was required to be less and less with the children she found herself with too much time on her hands , and since she was unused to idleness she found the vacant hours trying . |
| 5 | It was a bit stiff , and squeaked , but I went through it and found myself in yet another garden , a smaller , even more enclosed one , with higher walls , a bit like an old Tudor tennis court . |
| 6 | I told them in as few words as possible what Silver and the others had said , and they listened without speaking . |
| 7 | She appears not to have worshipped alongside her husband at the chapel ; he was a full member , and his daughters would later follow in his footsteps , but Ann never committed herself in quite that way . |
| 8 | Consider Best Bars as a first resort , regard the single cocktail you 'll shell out for as sheer investment , get yourself gift wrapped , send for our jetset silklook shirt , rid yourself of even that inch-of-pinch and the body beautiful will be guaranteed bait for ace race driver or millionaire financier in advanced stages of senility . |
| 9 | Christie 's held a charity auction , and up and down the country the rotaries and women 's institutes geared themselves for yet another season of money-raising fetes and flower shows . |
| 10 | Standing up slowly , she faced him with as much composure as she could muster . |
| 11 | ‘ I admired him for so many years and was very proud to count myself among his close friends . |
| 12 | Still , although many would argue that the exterior changes have robbed the Polo of its identity and turned it into yet another Eurobland shopping car , at least it no longer looks dated . |
| 13 | The Collector popped it into his mouth , let himself savour the sensation of it wriggling on his tongue for a moment , then crunched it with as much pleasure as if it had been a chocolate truffle . |
| 14 | When tomorrow came , Charlotte faced it with as much resolution and efficiency as she could muster . |
| 15 | He watched us without too much interest , his right hand resting casually near a push-buzzer . |
| 16 | Food , to them , was a commodity , and they treated it with as little respect as a bar of soap . |
| 17 | The restaurant where she had arranged to meet Piers was close to the Palais Lascaris , an old , breathtakingly beautiful town house , and she located it without too much difficulty . |
| 18 | ‘ He reminded me of so many things I 'd half-forgotten . |
| 19 | We 'd worked together on a BBC play called Shiftwork and he had a slightly wry , sullen world-weariness about him which reminded me of so many downtrodden husbands . |
| 20 | Sadly it was on Flensberg , the first PFF outing that was ruined by the weather , and did nothing to further this founding of target finding/marking . |
| 21 | Entering again , after ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , his valley of the dry bones , Eliot dismembered himself with scarcely less thoroughness in the new Christian poetry of Part II of Ash-Wednesday , published in 1927 . |
| 22 | She was right , as it happens , but Scarlet , not being clairvoyant , could n't be expected to know that and resigned herself to yet another evening which would not be wholly enjoyable even had she not been going to the theatre . |
| 23 | As my car moved through the area announcing ‘ Meet shadow chancellor John Smith as he explains Labour 's policy on fiscal and monetary reform , ’ I noticed that the town was not as crowded as I remembered it from only that morning . |
| 24 | The way the pastry mixture clung to your hands if you mixed it with too much water . |
| 25 | Luckily the main guy was able to call me and we discussed it for quite some time . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ In 1989 I crashed a lot because I put myself under too much pressure . |
| 27 | But the reasoning of the leading scientific intellects of the age had nothing like so much effect as an obscure little Japanese fishing boat named the Lucky Dragon which was 85 miles from Bikini Atoll when Dr Teller 's H-bomb went off . |
| 28 | ‘ Busy , ’ he replied , and while she bit down a reply of , ‘ That should keep you out of mischief , ’ Lubor went on to disappoint her some more , when he added , ‘ Mr Gajdusek has gone away and left me with very much work . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We altered our tactics to keep two men wide and one up the middle , and with Mel Pejic behind the back four we restricted them to very few chances . |
| 30 | If she was honest , no money meant no food — which left her with very little choice . |