Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Keith tried a little drop last night and he said I must n't drink this so soon after then he had another sip must n't drink it and he |
| 2 | Some sufferers tell hair-raising stories of how they drove long distances or even flew aeroplanes yet had no subsequent recall of having done so . |
| 3 | With her thoughts going dreamily round and round , it was about seven-thirty that , as she was again thinking of how he had that morning cradled her so gently when he 'd seen her hurt , Leith suddenly became horror-struck . |
| 4 | A metaphysical world view raises the question of why you attracted that event . |
| 5 | Bearing in mind this canal is in the middle of nowhere he returned ten minutes later with a bloke in a Land Rover . |
| 6 | The first thing he had thought of when he awoke that morning was that it was his mother 's birthday , 25 May , and he had been thinking about it ever since , as he always did on that day . |
| 7 | For once we had definite news that things were looking up , and it was the perfect antidote to the gruelling journey . |
| 8 | It was a Saturday , their father was sleeping in , as were their three elder brothers , so for once they had some time to play by themselves , which they did in the yard . |
| 9 | Within three overs Gooch had his century , his first against Pakistan , 17th in all , ninth in his 27 Tests as England captain , and for once he bore little resemblance to lonely General Gordon , whose last stand is immortalised by George Joy in Leeds Art Gallery . |
| 10 | It 's like when I finished those songs , I felt an incredible sense of boredom , ‘ Oh , now I 'm done . ' ’ |
| 11 | It was like when you had that part in Z-Cars . |
| 12 | You know we had an accident along where we opened that car door and that cyclist |
| 13 | What happens when we 're doing times now you did two sets of twelve did n't you ? |
| 14 | Before long he became part-time Bursar , and on his retirement from teaching in the late 1950s he had taken on the post full-time . |
| 15 | From here we had immense views , northwards across Ras Kassa 's province of Salale towards the Blue Nile gorge , or southwards to the distant Arussi mountains . |
| 16 | On the other hand her measurement around her tum was 44 inches and from here she lost 5 inches . |
| 17 | Before then he had 14 years in charge of West Ham , the club he joined as a schoolboy player and where he progressed through the ranks . |
| 18 | From there he made frequent visits to Jefferies ' Coate Farm and Reservoir , to well-off Townsend cousins in Clifton , and to the neighbouring Downs . |
| 19 | From then we spent many nights in the air raid shelter . |
| 20 | In May UNITA not only recaptured Mavinga but also switched the focus of its campaign to its military base in Béu in the north-west near the border with Zaïre , from where it received major airlifts of US supplies and equipment . |
| 21 | The outgoing Defence Minister , Gen. Le Duc Anh , had been promoted at the seventh CPV congress to second ranking member of the politburo , from where he controlled foreign policy . |
| 22 | Well they had one man in the hold and they used to have a fork lift in the hold , in Holland , with one man and he could do that job and they sent one man ashore , well over here we had four men in the hold and two men ashore . |
| 23 | In 1962 Piero Pieri addressed a Parisian audience on how he saw military history ‘ spilling over ’ into other aspects and specialisms of history , creating chain reactions which would bind them all together . |
| 24 | I was going to have to manage him , and whether I was able to do that successfully depended very much on how I managed this moment . |
| 25 | Since then they spent another £100,000 on it . |
| 26 | To when they had young children , and a husband coming home from work . |
| 27 | This was what a boost to when we won that thing at to the stewards and the members , it really was it was an uplift . |
| 28 | Mm , I said to Tony if we ca n't afford to go I said do n't worry about it , we might just go back down to where we went last year for a week because , it 's like I was saying to Joanne this morning , that this year they wo n't , they 're not gon na worry whether they do n't go on holiday but next year when Charlotte 's at school and got all her school mates saying oh where did you go and |
| 29 | Then he hanged himself in the garage close to where he found battered Marion dying last week . |
| 30 | Their flickering light showed her the way down the hall to where she placed another candle in an alcove and then , with matches in hand , she walked towards the living-room . |