Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | This has set me back a few weeks , that 's all . |
2 | I 'd seen him around a few times . |
3 | Cos I 'd cleaned it up the other day cos it had mildew on the bottom of it ! |
4 | Do you know she said she was n't coming to our wedding right up to the last moment , and when she did consent to come she behaved as if all the guests on my side were mud beneath her feet , though our family 's always been very well thought of around here , as I 'm sure you know , and my father could have bought her up a hundred times and not noticed the difference , and what was her father in New Zealand I wonder , some sheep dipper or other I would n't mind betting — you know the type that went to the colonies then — or perhaps he was a convict ! ’ |
5 | ‘ Partridge , who acts as guide , as boots , postilion , and boatman , at the Salutation Inn , might have brought us down an easier descent ; but as he had been out with a chaise all night , he was perhaps induced , from fatigue , to take us the nearest way . |
6 | Had Liverpool been playing Arsenal next Wednesday would Dalglish have ruled him out a full five days before the game ? |
7 | You must have touched her up the wrong way . |
8 | HER REPLY on August 21 appears to have tipped him over a political brink . |
9 | and I said to him , I thought they er were fifty pence and he said I 've picked you out the biggest and the best . |
10 | I 've pursued him down the disappearing paths of my own psyche . |
11 | And if I 've hung his coats up once I 've hung up , I 've hung them up a hundred times , he 's got a coat hanger on the back of the coat hook on the back of the door |
12 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
13 | Moments later he had led her up a short stairway , through the heavily bolted door at the top , and out of the building , and Isabel had recognised the alley leading to the wash-houses and pressing-rooms , which lay between the towering keep and the curtain wall . |
14 | The route they had taken into the underground passages had led them along a wide , high-ceilinged passageway that was easy to negotiate . |
15 | The Dalek Killer 's led us up a blind alley . ’ |