Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My parents both died before I left the School of Italian Studies so I had heard nothing about my family for over ten years . |
| 2 | My father once wrote after he had been to the French Legation to dine : " A forty-minute ride across two ravines and a swamp , then a shocking road up to the house on a moonless night is really no fun . " |
| 3 | With hindsight , it was inevitable my application to continue full-time study would be refused , for in their eyes I had wandered long enough in the margins and so my hierarchy now ordered that I return to the basics of uniform police duties . |
| 4 | They can be a bit thick at the best of times , ; you know that amphora you sent me ? well my lot only went and peed in it — I have to go now , Tony 's coming for his Osso Buco . |
| 5 | Detestable stuff , but my Dad always insisted that we had an egg cup full , once a week . |
| 6 | ‘ My headache just grew and grew and suddenly the light faded and I could not see a thing . |
| 7 | Er and that er in my view anyway demonstrated that we 'd got it about right in terms of our assessment of the effects of the Southern Bypass . |
| 8 | My mother nearly died when she saw the mess but little did she know that I was going to do it all again the next day . |
| 9 | All the women in the village had dressed in their best clothes with their hair freshly oiled and plaited , their earrings , nose-rings and necklaces of Indian silver rupees washed and glinting in the sunlight . |
| 10 | Yet her face reamined tilted up towards his , her lips softly puckered as though to welcome a kiss . |
| 11 | And her eyes too shone as she looked at the two men sitting there . |
| 12 | Not a muscle of Nan 's face moved , her stroke never faltered as she brushed and watched the flakes fall down on the newspaper she had spread beneath . |
| 13 | The early joint appearances of the Prince and Princess of Wales and their travels together confirmed that the public approved of the Prince 's choice . |
| 14 | So , for example , the consent of the victim is no defence to a charge of murder or , in the case of an assault , ‘ that the victim thought his or her punishment well deserved and submitted to it ’ . |
| 15 | In addition , when cattle got lost , or were eaten by wild animals , their owners sometimes assumed that they had been stolen and instituted a prosecution against known cattle thieves . |
| 16 | Her father always swore while he drank the stuff , claiming to have been raised on real coffee before the CAC stopped exporting from Nicaragua , but she never understood his complaints . |
| 17 | Dr Neil — he 's Stair Cochrane 's younger brother — he works for the poor in an East End practice — ’ Her voice almost broke when she said his name , and her mama knew immediately that Sally-Anne was not telling them the whole truth about her East End adventures . |
| 18 | Virginia was staring at Horatia , her lips almost blue , her pupils so dilated that the eyes looked black . |
| 19 | During the long years of war , their numbers slowly dwindled till only the most savage , cunning and ruthless survived to carry the war to Chaos . |
| 20 | Their popularity soon grew and the introduction of World Music to the West during the late 1980s catapulted the band to international recognition . |
| 21 | At the mention of her mother , her tone suddenly faltered and a pain like a lance went driving through her . |
| 22 | It was reported on May 13 that a grand jury had decided not to indict any of the 17 officers who stood by and watched whilst their colleagues repeatedly punched and kicked the handcuffed man . |
| 23 | In the general election of February 1985 the Human Rights Protection Party ( HRPP ) won 31 seats in the Fono but 12 of its MPs subsequently defected and , in January 1986 , entered into a coalition government with the rival Christian Democratic Party . |
| 24 | She continued her angry and frustrated weeping , but was forced to question herself when her son also withdrew and gave his support to his father . |
| 25 | Years afterwards , in fact decades afterwards , when Nietzsche himself was no longer available for comment , his sister repeatedly asserted that as a young professor he had always intended to produce a " large " book on Greece , not one dealing with , or centred on , a single topic , but a book that would deal comprehensively with various aspects of Greek civilization . |
| 26 | His guardian now insisted that the family move to a healthier climate This well-intentioned advice proved disastrous , for within the space of one year in Italy Smith had suffered from frostbite , smallpox and malaria . |
| 27 | His research further showed that the participative , supportive supervisor who was transferred to a low-production unit was able to raise the performance at a fast rate . |
| 28 | His department later confirmed that there had been no competitive tendering and that no companies apart from EDS , nor the department itself , had been invited to bid . |
| 29 | His supporters subsequently asserted that the Browns had passed Common 's patterns to McCormick , but there is no evidence that the American , working in an isolated part of Virginia from 1831 , ever encountered them before his reaper improvements of ten years later . |
| 30 | Despite his phenomenal energy the sheer size of his dominions inevitably meant that it could be months or even years before he was free to deal with a distant crisis or give his officials the support they needed against a major local potentate . |