Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got a potential describing Inverness I met her on the train the other day , a friend of my , he says |
| 2 | I knew before I started out that , weatherwise , the end of March is not the time to plan a journey to the Islands and my misgiving proved to be well founded as on Tuesday 23 March I found myself in the lounge at Dalcross Airport , Inverness watching gale force winds sweep snow across the runways . |
| 3 | But erm when we , by the time we got into Hull I heard it on the radio what had happened and we went to the toy fair and then we came back and there was er you could see all the ambulances and everything still there . |
| 4 | So this afternoon I had him on the settee |
| 5 | ‘ An' where 's the money I gave yer fer the pictures ? ’ he demanded . |
| 6 | Finding myself in the coal bunker at the back of the bungalow I did nothing till the morning of dawning when maximum light was to be utilised for a rather essential cold water wash under an outside tap , and I was soon back on the solid road remarking that the hedgerows ' newborn leaves utter great things . |
| 7 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 8 | Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly |
| 9 | I packed my things , and as I was manoeuvring the car I reversed it into a ditch from which it would not shift . |
| 10 | I did n't approve of what he was doing , but if I refused his money I would be more and more visible , so I took it , and when he had gone off in relief back towards the dining car I gave it to the barman . |
| 11 | Still on the subject of pets , I must n't forget Mrs. I found her under the millstone table outside the kitchen on a cold November evening . |
| 12 | Of course , when we were in Bruges you told me about the hypochondriac darling you worked for , but what about before that ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Obviously we would like to have got through by playing football we did everything by the book while Tbilisi did n't . |
| 14 | They then wrapped it in linen and concealed it about their person : to jade a horse they touched him in the pit of the shoulder with the frog 's bone : to release the horse they touched him on the rump . |
| 15 | They then wrapped it in linen and concealed it about their person : to jade a horse they touched him in the pit of the shoulder with the frog 's bone : to release the horse they touched him on the rump . |
| 16 | Satellite dishes , we went t when we went to Falmouth they took us on a trip there , it was interesting . |
| 17 | as if conforming to some prearranged ceremony they grouped themselves into a semicircle with Alex Mair a little to the front , like a formal welcoming party but one bracing itself for trouble rather than expecting pleasure from the approaching guest . |
| 18 | They bound the restaurant owner , who moaned feebly and thrashed about a bit ; then with Lambert 's aid they hoisted him to the high seat . |
| 19 | In the spring he took him to the house in Normandy . |
| 20 | No one really wants to know about him , and he knows why he agreed to do the film , why on the last day of shooting he dismissed it as a ‘ stinker ’ , what he thinks of it now . |
| 21 | With a growl he launched himself at the wizard , boots clattering as he slid from ring to ring . |
| 22 | Small things delighted him ; when Bowler 's mother knitted him a sweater he wore it for a period continuously . |
| 23 | After a week in the swamps he left us in a camp at the north end of the Okavango . |
| 24 | Although it meant a detour he drove them through the Bois du Boulogne . |
| 25 | BP has considerable experience of rationalisation ; along with much of the rest of UK manufacturing industry it reshaped itself during the early and mid-1980s . |
| 26 | Then , almost alone , he awaited his fate , and as the British troops stormed through the gateway of his stronghold he shot himself with a pistol sent to him in happier days by Queen Victoria . |
| 27 | On his way home after a wedding he found himself in a field with an angry bull . |
| 28 | More than any other wartime figure he addressed himself to the conscience of middle-class radicalism , arguing that the only worthwhile victory possible was one based on the common ownership of the means of production and a moral revolution in which selfishness and the profit motive would give way to an ethic of service to the community . |
| 29 | Within six months he found himself in the White House . |
| 30 | When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it . |