Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " 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 | And er , it went wrong so she took her daughter 's out of her bedroom and using hers and when our John came down she were telling about it so he said oh I 'll take it this Sunday and I 'll fix it for you , of course with John working away he took the television |
| 3 | The colonel explained that the reason for the exclusion zone would become clear once they saw what had been found in the excavation . |
| 4 | Those remaining faced disease and starvation and the prospect of continuing civil war because the Russians left Afghanistan more unstable than they found it . |
| 5 | Can I suggest as , as we , we start the document , that we have a copy of the procedure we 're discussing open , because I think most of us in debate and discussion proper if we made our own procedures , things that we hear about . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | wrong if I said who is heaviest of the two of you ? |
| 8 | I think , yeah I think it might look wrong if you turned it up actually . |
| 9 | It 's interesting cos you said it helps people with mild depression . |
| 10 | It 's good no I tell you why I thought they were crap cos you gave me an album and it had the had Dancing in the Moonlight and that was good but all the other songs on it were really shit . |
| 11 | She 'd be polite and charming if it killed her ! |
| 12 | Joe was saying how how he was really embarrassed cos he showed your mum or something ! |
| 13 | I think he 'd be interested if you heard anything tonight . |
| 14 | ‘ … directly reminiscent of the existence of the individual in infancy before he could talk readily , when everyone was bigger and stronger , when chairs and tables were mountainous and had sharp injurious edges , when he could flood the dark universe with light if someone lifted him to press the switch , but when usually his greatest efforts were ineffectual to change anything . |
| 15 | But , when she suddenly discovered an urgent desire to know his name , she knew that she would only end up feeling foolish if she asked him what it was in this moment of parting . |
| 16 | He raised the status and majesty of the royal household beyond even the limit set by Diocletian , which included an acceptance of Christianity in a purely formal sense , since it is very doubtful if he understood its true meaning . |
| 17 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 18 | ‘ Because he was afraid if he stayed he would be arrested ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I was afraid if I saw you I would n't be able to keep my hands off you . |
| 20 | I could have hugged my Mum that day for saving the harmonium but I was afraid if I did she would push me away . |
| 21 | Looking at Damian Flint , she knew he was not different because he had power : he was different because he wanted it , fought for it , and knew how to use it . |
| 22 | He appeared to find something interesting because he shortened his stride till he was marching opposite me . |
| 23 | His lectures were above all popular because he packed them with information . |
| 24 | I think my father 's authority was irrational because he expected me to have no other interests outside my schoolwork . |
| 25 | ‘ They were n't interested because they realised what they would be expected to do , ’ says Jim Devine . |
| 26 | She wore jeans and a sweatshirt that night — and then felt foolish because she knew he would realise instantly why she was covering herself from head to toe . |
| 27 | But we are embarrassed because we got it wrong when usually we do not . |
| 28 | Euripides would probably have said that what Aeschylus did was wrong because he did it unconsciously . |
| 29 | Harold Wilson convinced me I was wrong because he trained himself very , very well to be a pretty good television performer , and I think it is necessary for the Prime Minister . |
| 30 | Jason Donovan was also eleven , at school in Melbourne and also launching his acting career in Skyways , which he found exciting because it meant he could take some time off school . |