Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … 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 . |
| 2 | They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He suggested abortion two or three times and made it very clear that he thought I was making a mistake . |
| 6 | By his expression , it was clear that he thought she was lying . |
| 7 | the sky was high , the air so clear that he imagined he could see to the ends of the earth . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | She would cook them all a good breakfast and make it clear that she expected them to be at the table on time . |
| 11 | It was so clear that I knew I 'd been blind . |
| 12 | Sometimes she was so funny that it seemed she ought to be given a show of her own . |
| 13 | Ironically the price of sterling went up so high that it made it very difficult for us to sell our other manufactured goods and many people are now of the belief that because of the North Sea oil price rises , this had an adverse affect on our economy , making it more difficult for us to sell manufacturing goods because the pound was very strong against other currencies . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're so slim that I thought you might be one of those women who are on a perpetual diet , and I dislike intensely dining with someone who eats like a sparrow . ’ |
| 15 | The transition was so abrupt that it took her by surprise . |
| 16 | He had no really bad faults but you had to be careful that nothing startled him , such as a bird suddenly rising , and on one occasion he did bolt . |
| 17 | I am afraid that I told him to go away and not be silly . |
| 18 | Perturbed by the keenness of his loss , afraid that it made him , in truth , a stuffed-shirt Englishman as Hannele had assumed , Edward Carrington went to the bathroom and began to fill the mighty iron tub . |
| 19 | The district had changed since he last lived here , but he was not so old that he resented it . |
| 20 | Its complete lack of any taste was so nauseating that I spat it out and decided to eat the rest of the bread by itself I was finishing this when there was the sound of boots in the passage again . |
| 21 | Those remaining faced disease and starvation and the prospect of continuing civil war because the Russians left Afghanistan more unstable than they found it . |
| 22 | But I was young and Scottish and I thought I was the greatest . |
| 23 | She wished she could confide in Ella , but it was far too risky and she knew she would feel worse if anyone in the house knew about the baby . |
| 24 | It was risky and she knew it . |
| 25 | The best time to visit is in stormy conditions when the birds are on the wing , but the day we went was calm and we saw them only sitting on their nests . |
| 26 | I had explained this to Aunt Louise , who enjoyed her bath and filled it almost to the top ; but she took no notice , becoming affronted and resentful if I reminded her . |
| 27 | We concluded by singing the carol O Come all ye Faithful and I gave them a blessing . |
| 28 | I think , yeah I think it might look wrong if you turned it up actually . |
| 29 | But he was OK and he sent her a big kiss . |
| 30 | She might lose him but for now he was as enslaved as she was and Maggie caressed him as he caressed her until his kisses grew more demanding and he turned her beneath him again . |