Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Weenes , in a conversation he had with the wife of a London weaver in September 1690 , expressed his opinion that William was " a Dutch Dogg and an Usurper " , who " like a Villain came and took the Crowne from the head of his Father " , and also that " the nobility was a parcel of Rogues and all of them lived as high as Kings . |
| 2 | Nothing became more important than whether the President had added his approval to this ‘ very strange ’ piece of paper , as Poindexter called it : a memorandum Poindexter said he had never seen before , and which Thompson found him reading the next morning over breakfast . |
| 3 | Old land-owning families prospered and built under Queen Elizabeth I 's reign , but many of them became badly unstuck during the Civil War . |
| 4 | Everything around them became slightly abnormal , the new occupation , the environment , the dress they wore , the physical and emotional climate . |
| 5 | They also acquired the railways and many of them became as proud of their state systems as of the other perquisites of the British connection . |
| 6 | Oh , I think the majority always have worked hard , but they , some of them became quite flamboyant and extravagant in their gestures about what they , how they wanted to change things , and I think nowadays they , perhaps sadly , really , they feel they , they ca n't so they just knuckle down to it all . |
| 7 | Even people like me became more self-confident in Art when he was the teacher . |
| 8 | Conversation stopped and everyone became frightfully solicitous . |
| 9 | In deepest drought the very top of the curved roofs has occasionally been visible , but until now no-one realised how big the structure really was . |
| 10 | Nothing succeeded so much as success for the organization . |
| 11 | Oh , some of them got quite rich . |
| 12 | Many of them built up vast fortunes under my father 's regime , illegal fortunes , I hasten to add . |
| 13 | He told her to fetch a pencil and paper and when she brought them scribbled down several sentences in capital letters . |
| 14 | I had n't realized just how much I 'd got out of the swing of things but everyone helped as much as they could and I soon adjusted back again . |
| 15 | For a moment I considered bolting , but I noticed that a young reptilian reception-clerk was watching me narrowly , as if he thought I might roll up a carpet and try to carry it out under my arm , and I became instantly obstreperous . |
| 16 | I became vividly aware of this disturbing phenomenon while I was sitting deep in thought on Hammersmith Bridge this afternoon . |
| 17 | I became heavily involved in far left politics , becoming a member of the Socialist Students ' Alliance , the student leftovers of the IMG 's ( Internation Marxist Group 's ) move into the Labour Party . |
| 18 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 19 | Soon afterwards I became openly rebellious at school and , after some final misdemeanour which I can not recall but suspect to have been trivial , I was asked to leave . |
| 20 | As I became professionally involved in trying to understand what , if anything , was happening I realised that here was a rare opportunity for the public to experience science in action , feel the excitement that drives inquisitive minds , and see how discoveries are made , tested , replicated , proven and developed into a new technology . |
| 21 | I was overlooked repeatedly , to such an extent that I became completely disgusted . |
| 22 | As the campaign progressed , I became increasingly angry at the attitudes of my friends at home and how different they said things were there , believing , as I did and still do , in the importance of a Labour victory for Britain as a whole . |
| 23 | Many of these ingredients were indeed present , but as the months passed I became increasingly aware that there was much more than just science at work here . |
| 24 | Every day that passed while Jean-Claude was away I became increasingly disorientated . |
| 25 | I became increasingly interested in gay men 's specific ways of seeing the world — what one might call , to use a now unfashionable phrase of Raymond Williams , male homosexual structures of feeling — but to qualify for inclusion in this framework , texts had to pass an ‘ authorship test ’ ( ‘ is/was he gay ? ’ ) that harked back to the bad old days of crudely biographical criticism . |
| 26 | With this observation , I became increasingly interested in what other sorts of evidence alerts social workers to possible child abuse . |
| 27 | It gave me an unwelcome feeling and a ‘ you 're not wanted here , get out ’ complex , from which I became utterly pessimistic and a trifle hostile . |
| 28 | In the Southern Ocean , in that great reverberating blue-green world I shared with nature , I became intensely aware of the way in which men and women have trapped themselves within cities . |
| 29 | Watching several of the video films of Highlander workshops I became forcibly aware of both broad and detailed comparisons of rural problems in Appalachia and the Scottish Highlands . |
| 30 | I see , simply , that at some point I became pathologically compliant . |