Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That upset and confused her . |
| 2 | She judged the first to be that of some official and wondered what such a one would be doing there at an hour now close to midnight . |
| 3 | Some used electric sticks , some beat us over the head with handcuffs , some kicked us , some pulled and pushed us , some beat us with rifles . |
| 4 | Suddenly the head spoke , saying ‘ Time is ’ , but Miles considered this unimportant and ignored it . |
| 5 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |
| 6 | Everything seemed to be changing , and this excited and worried her at the same time : she thought about it so much that her face had a permanently screwed up , wondering look . |
| 7 | Jenkins picked up another four and handed them out to the other customers sitting at the counter . |
| 8 | How many pieces of expensive jewellery , or very collectable coins , did these Victorian visitors lose as they did the social round and took their cures ? |
| 9 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 10 | Asked about the daring six that took him to his century , Lewis added : ‘ I had got to 90 by attacking the bowling so I was determined to keep playing that way . |
| 11 | This man stopped real quick and blew his horn and shouted summat at me . |
| 12 | Hicks spent two years in LA in his early 20s and hated it . |
| 13 | Yes I must say I , I personally sympathy with that I mean I think that erm , women 's er role is er very much despised and disparaged it should be because if you think about it they 're having the children and bringing them up , well this is one of the most worthwhile things to do |
| 14 | The Cleveland Search and Rescue team , lead by local member Gary Finch , quickly located the remaining two and rescued them within 90 minutes . |
| 15 | Some of her hair caught inside it and she flicked it out , a careless fall of dark blonde that framed her even-featured face . |
| 16 | Strong hands turned Soapy round and helped him out into the street again . |
| 17 | Jenna changed into a soft woollen dress of dark blue and tied her hair back in a band . |
| 18 | He got bored silly and considered it a complete waste of time . |
| 19 | I then took all the cabinets and gave them deep-dish handles , plus I used the old logo from the early '50s and expanded it length-wise on a computer , to see how it looked . |
| 20 | They would not be there unless they shared the European ideal and believed themselves to be an integral part of the process of European unity . |
| 21 | Soon the fine weather would come , she would be able to take rides along the coast road , get away for a while from the interminable drawing-room meetings and card calling that wearied and bored her . |
| 22 | He calmly snapped the sawn-off closed and swivelled it from the hip towards me . |
| 23 | Each time we went for another animal all those left howled and fought their chains to get close to us so as not to be left behind . |
| 24 | The oldest boy seized the younger two and dragged them back , out of sight . |
| 25 | Fruity Fred the bull terrier took a fancy to the leggy lovely and thought he 'd try his luck . |
| 26 | If you sent me a postcard with three Xs and told me how |
| 27 | Reference to Freemantle 's letter shows that although Philip and Anne Leapor both attempted to break their daughter of the habit of writing verses , toward the end of the poet 's life some accommodation was reached : ‘ But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , [ her father ] had of late desisted and left her more at Liberty ’ [ vol. 2 , p. xxx ] . |
| 28 | But for me it was Couples 's play of the long 15th that marked him down as a most worthy champion . |
| 29 | Stanley Spencer experienced all this and felt it deeply . |
| 30 | all this work , I took that out the door , out of there and built all this and built me garage and You see ? |