Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When one cooled she picked up the other and spat to test it . |
| 2 | ‘ I expect they came back the next day , or the next week ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Some say they brought back the wrong ashes , and that is n't Yeats there at all . |
| 4 | Jazzbeaux heard they did much the same thing in Jap corp boardrooms . |
| 5 | First and last he sought only the strictest fidelity to justice , rectitude and truth . |
| 6 | Remember he walked out the lost . |
| 7 | It was n't that he would n't help , often he did , but he believed that by delegating he brought out the best in people , that they would rise to the challenge , and he had other things to be done . ’ |
| 8 | But Dilys Powell could reasonably complain of Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ) that there was ‘ hardly any suspense , hardly any of the building up to a climax which makes the dullest American film tolerable ’ , and enthuse about Carol Reed 's A Girl Must Live ( 1939 ) , saying it showed how the British could make ‘ a comedy which has the speed and glitter and impudence of the best American comedies . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Why do you think they brought in the Black and Tans ? |
| 10 | The company claimed last night that Mr Onanuga and Mr Newton now agreed they made up the whole story of Mr Lamont 's visit . |
| 11 | She said well it 's too late now , the the clear one 's full so we just anyway , went I went down the next day there 's a new one or , next time , there 's a new one down there so they , they must obviously think , well put them all in together . |
| 12 | In fact in our tenement " penthouse " I once unearthed several roller-skates which I cannibalised until finally there was only one , at which point I gave up the unequal struggle on a solo skate . |
| 13 | As she went she picked up the expensive bottle of wine . |
| 14 | I think I found just the tiny |
| 15 | Then this woman says erm nine nine till five thirty I think she said well the five thirty bit would be alright would n't it |
| 16 | Her colleagues said she came down the last few hundred feet singing Flower of Scotland with her instructor . |
| 17 | My mom said she had just the greatest time with you all last year . |
| 18 | Divorcee Mrs Robinson was arrested in April , 1989 , and while awaiting trial , she said she had only the vaguest idea of what she was being accused . |
| 19 | He said he remembered well the 1972 Teesside Law Courts , now used as magistrates courts only . |
| 20 | Matter of fact , as I told Heather , I stumbled on something that last evening which suggested I had completely the wrong end of the stick . |
| 21 | The lessons he 's learnt he did so the hard way . |