Example sentences of "[subord] [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rarely wondered about others ' lives except where they touched his ; his mind was perpetually occupied with his own concerns . |
| 2 | The areas of learning and experience are those identified earlier , except that they added one more : technological . |
| 3 | MARSEILLE , the Manchester United of French football — except that they won their championship last year — have moved in advance of next summer 's World Cup marketplace to strengthen their team for next season . |
| 4 | Lydia watched it , thinking that they had much in common except that she had her prey in her grasp and was already preparing it for consumption . |
| 5 | I glimpsed what she had written — nothing extraordinary except that she hoped she would soon find deliverance from her troubles . |
| 6 | What could she say to him except that she felt her life — their life together — slipping away ; that whether she survived or slid wearily from her broken body , there was no longer any prospect of happiness for them ; that he should forget her and make his own world without her ? |
| 7 | They were vague shadowy figures , rather like her own mother had been , except that she remembered them slightly better because , when she had been about eight years old , Granny Tremayne had driven her over to Newquay where they had been staying . |
| 8 | ‘ She is n't important , never was important — except that she gave me a chance to get close to you again . ’ |
| 9 | There was nothing wrong with it except that she doubted it was true and was certain Holly was showing it to Maureen for approval . |
| 10 | Going through Joe 's mind as he mounted the stairs were thoughts which were very similar , except that he expressed his in a slightly different way . |
| 11 | Except that he made it ‘ loo-oo-oo-ming ’ . |
| 12 | Everyone remembered him as a big man in all senses but not as a good headmaster except that he liked everyone and everyone liked him and in chapel he was a superlative speaker . |
| 13 | By degrees she , Dinah , had become little more than his reader , except that he gave her too many babies , no doubt absent-mindedly . |
| 14 | Then we went to a lake with wooded and marshy shores where we saw several ‘ new ’ birds : a crane flew past , looking like a grey heron except that it carried its neck outstretched in flight instead of ‘ folded back ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Except that I heard you threaten to . ’ |
| 16 | Except that I thought you 'd understand — and perhaps I did think that you had a right to know why I feel the way I do about … about anything permanent . ’ |
| 17 | She thought , Now he 'll say what he was going to say last night , except that I made it hard for him , I was so unloving , so unresponsive . |
| 18 | I could n't tell how exactly , except that I found I could n't teach you so well . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know no more , except that I helped him to hide in the hayloft . |
| 20 | For martial artists it mattered less what form you studied than that you made it a way of life . |
| 21 | ‘ Although if I knew them and I wanted a nice picture — smiling , arms around each other — I would call out to them , but not before I reached the third frame . ’ |
| 22 | Because that 's the thing like , although if she did something a bit more traditional , it 'd probably please the likes of us but when you think , the kids that are doing it , if she says oh we 're doing something out of Starlight Express it 'll be aah ! |
| 23 | I think ( actor 's voice ) people who are not in this great business of ours think the idea of electronic messages flying around is really odd and they may get freaked if some of what is said is a bit inflammatory- maybe more so than if they saw it printed . |
| 24 | And when anyone treats my daughter like that I find it very hard to forgive , I know it hurts my kids , I 'm much more up in arms than if they hurt me . |
| 25 | Some regional breweries such as Palatine have found good niches for their products , but many others are content to sell lagers brewed by national companies such as Whitbread , thus accepting lower margins than if they brewed their own . |
| 26 | Often it is very useful to study your complete set of jobs and arrange the elements of that set in order , so that they can be done better , or more easily than if you did your work in a different order each day . |
| 27 | I made a guesswork assessment that it would be able to provide a motor car that would cost the disabled person at least 25 per cent less than if he made his own arrangements . |
| 28 | And in the remaining 14 , levels were in all cases lower if the mother had seven years or more of schooling than if she had none , though the death rates were higher if the women had 1–3 or 4–6 years of formal education than if she had none . |
| 29 | And in the remaining 14 , levels were in all cases lower if the mother had seven years or more of schooling than if she had none , though the death rates were higher if the women had 1–3 or 4–6 years of formal education than if she had none . |
| 30 | He explained that in allowing herself to cry she was showing a normal reaction to her loss and that this would lead to earlier resolution of her feelings than if she bottled them up . |