Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She only had about fifty pence left from the money she had borrowed from her stepfather the day before , but she hoped that the young Italian barman , who fancied her , had not yet been sacked or moved on and would give her a margarita , free . |
| 2 | He concentrated hard but could detect nothing ‘ Doctor ! ’ cried Bernice . |
| 3 | Fearfully , Seb drew closer and could see her dress had been ripped down from the neck to waist . |
| 4 | Isaac Walton , Donne 's biographer , relates the tale : ‘ Several charcoal fires being first madde in his large study , he brought with him into that place a winding sheet in his hand , and having put off all his clothes , had this sheet put on him , and so tied with knots at his head and feet , and his hands so placed as dead bodies are usually fitted , to be shrouded and put into their coffin , or grave … with his eyes shut and with so much of the sheet turned aside as might show his lean , pale and death-like face . ’ |
| 5 | She looked around but could see nothing prepared for the arrival of a baby Maggie seemed to have had no nesting instincts at all . |