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 | ‘ Some say they brought back the wrong ashes , and that is n't Yeats there at all . |
| 3 | Remember he walked out the lost . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Why do you think they brought in the Black and Tans ? |
| 6 | The company claimed last night that Mr Onanuga and Mr Newton now agreed they made up the whole story of Mr Lamont 's visit . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As she went she picked up the expensive bottle of wine . |
| 9 | I think I found just the tiny |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The lessons he 's learnt he did so the hard way . |