Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tea/supper 1 oz. of diced cheddar cheese mixed with one diced fresh apple . |
| 2 | Nathan 's look as he towered over her sent cold shivers rippling down her spine . |
| 3 | Of all the things the Welsh MPs have got to talk about they decided public toilets are the most important . |
| 4 | Sir Alf Ramsey was n't popular with many ( it is n't a manager 's job to be popular ) but every player who played for him had enormous respect and liking for him . |
| 5 | If you inject the right amount you could feel like you had six glasses of your favourite tipple . |
| 6 | Before he had time to refuse , she added , ‘ As I said to you before , I think you and Len both need to talk over what happened that day . |
| 7 | WELCOME to who joined last November to develop the company 's pet food trade in continental Europe . |
| 8 | The rooms he opened for her had few signs of childish occupation . |
| 9 | Detectives want to hear from anyone offered cheap fish after a burglary at the Golden Flatts fish and chip shop in Jutland Road , Hartlepool . |
| 10 | Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore . |
| 11 | The interest in birds that he shared with them transcended all prejudices and the racism rife among the resident colonials . |
| 12 | Several hours later after flying over what seemed endless tracts of grey-green Siberian tundra we descended over the great expanse of the Lena River . |
| 13 | ‘ The town hall was used for the toxic waste inquiry and the Butler Sloss inquiry and people affected by them had ready access , ’ he said . |
| 14 | The wondrous feast that Constant Drachenfels placed before them contained paralysing poisons , and after the first mouthful none of the guests could move . |
| 15 | I arrived breathless and late , having been delayed in what seemed heavier traffic than usual . |
| 16 | And er what was I going to tell you , I told you about , I talked about we had nine pawnbroker 's shops , I did n't did I , but that we did have nine pawnbroker shops in Ipswich . |
| 17 | Actually , I always wanted to write a play about how life gets so tedious that we start reminiscing about what happened two minutes ago . |
| 18 | Depending on slide size , up to about 24 slices can be flattened in one timed half hour run . |
| 19 | A very powerful account , And I Do n't Want To Live This Life , was written by the mother of a girl who , from infancy , had behaved in what seemed abnormal ways . |
| 20 | Sharpe insisted : ‘ The players are still hurt by what happened last season . |
| 21 | Yeah well I was only in Gwindy for three years , then I went to Lewis Girls because I lived this end of I had to go to I loved Gwindy school . |
| 22 | But branches need a facility , it 's not about in-fighting , it 's about something that actually happened within my branch , I 'd like to add that we won the appeal , when the branch went through it raised two questions , we won one , we lost one . |
| 23 | For she was pleased , just as she always was when people pointed out how much she looked like her adored older brother . |
| 24 | but the trigonometry ones you have to know what they turn into I got some things , a couple of them I was getting stuck on what I supposed to put and then I actually go too far on some 'em , I , I |
| 25 | Anyway , she went to she took this sister 's post in The Yale |
| 26 | Followed by one grated fresh apple topped with a quarter of a pint of vanilla-flavoured custard ( make half a pint of custard , adding a little extra sugar and a few drops of vanilla essence , and save half of it in the refrigerator for Friday ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Maybe not but I think both you and Len might benefit by talking about what happened that morning ; after all , apparently you were the only one who actually saw him fall . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm talking about what happened last night . |
| 29 | The tap could be regulated so that the water flowing from it filled another tank in exactly twenty-four hours , while raising a float inside the tank a fixed distance . |
| 30 | Just thinking about it aroused such passion in him it was scary : $75 million from the bank , $25 million from Antonio , and he , Stephen Reece-Carlton , could develop his own small island in the Bahamas , with a marina , golf course and casino . |