Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is n't that where they found his clothes ? |
| 2 | See my dad likes videos and things like that but he wa he , I know he likes aftershave , he likes that Old Spice and that so I thought well I 'll get him something like that or I thought I sort of saw cos I 'm going shopping Saturday , I 'm trying to get it all Saturday if I can . |
| 3 | … it being very narrow where we met it , the Driver of the Chaise in backing his Horses to avoid being drove over overturned his Chaise , but very providentially , blessed be Almighty God for it ! we received very little Injury , Nancys Face was a little bruised . |
| 4 | Wrexham 's Chris Platt was well in contention until he had a triple bogey seven at the 17th where he put his tee shot into bushes and trouble . |
| 5 | Each meeting ends with the moneymen all saying things like I 'm in or I want in on this or You got it or Let's do it . |
| 6 | ‘ Is this where you found him ? ’ |
| 7 | It was probably not long after this that they made their peace with the Yorkists and entered Gloucester 's service . |
| 8 | It was probably not long after this that they made their peace with the Yorkists and entered Gloucester 's service . |
| 9 | And to cap it all , it had to be on a case as weird as this that they sent him a Substitute Prosecutor who watched his performance with amused detachment . |
| 10 | She looked so stricken at this that he wished he had n't said it . |
| 11 | They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army . |
| 12 | Essentially , it was a calculative attitude and it was clear that they managed themselves in the sense that they saw work as being a means to their personal ends , which might be owning a boarding house , for example . |
| 13 | But those areas were taken out of the project when it became clear that they merited their own separate treatment . |
| 14 | It is quite clear that he accepted its authority and its validity . |
| 15 | When he introduced the report in the house , my right honourable friend , the member for Kingston upon Thames made is clear that he accepted them all and that the government was committed to carrying them out . |
| 16 | Laing made it clear that he despised his fellow MPs for affecting the common touch and wearing Olex ; he himself never appeared in the house without a worsted suit and a carnation . |
| 17 | Alexei 's expression was anguished , and it was clear that he wished himself elsewhere . |
| 18 | He also advocated the appointment of prison inspectors and made it clear that he expected them to be as thorough as he himself had been , probing every corner and speaking with every prisoner . |
| 19 | When it became clear that he had nothing to tell me , I made my exit in the face of dismissive politeness . |
| 20 | Mrs Thatcher had rebuffed suggestions that he resign and made it clear that he enjoyed her full confidence . |
| 21 | My rebellion was only half-consciously directed at my father 's choice of reading matter for me , although his disapproving and often angry comments made it clear that he took my behaviour as a personal affront . |
| 22 | It was clear that he made her life happier than it had been , but she still had to put up with the desperately uncomfortable conditions and go out on her terrifying foraging expeditions . |
| 23 | He suggested abortion two or three times and made it very clear that he thought I was making a mistake . |
| 24 | By his expression , it was clear that he thought she was lying . |
| 25 | the sky was high , the air so clear that he imagined he could see to the ends of the earth . |
| 26 | Although he did not commit a future Labour government to taking the tunnel into public ownership , he made it clear that he believed it would require a public stake to complete the project . |
| 27 | Innocent had not controlled French aspirations but he had made it clear that he saw himself as the arbiter of Europe and John 's cession of his kingdom in 1213 considerably strengthened the pope 's hand . |
| 28 | There were times when Gooch publicly made it clear that he put his home life before cricket . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , I hope I shall always be Kingy to you , Miss Sally-Anne , ’ making it clear that he included her in the charmed circle of his friends . |
| 30 | But Rodrigo was not like other mercenaries ; he made it clear that he required nothing for himself . |