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 | Bearing in mind this canal is in the middle of nowhere he returned ten minutes later with a bloke in a Land Rover . |
| 3 | For once we had definite news that things were looking up , and it was the perfect antidote to the gruelling journey . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What happens when we 're doing times now you did two sets of twelve did n't you ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On the other hand her measurement around her tum was 44 inches and from here she lost 5 inches . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | From there he made frequent visits to Jefferies ' Coate Farm and Reservoir , to well-off Townsend cousins in Clifton , and to the neighbouring Downs . |
| 12 | From then we spent many nights in the air raid shelter . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Since then they spent another £100,000 on it . |
| 15 | The petitions had little or no effect but at least they afforded some sense of involvement in what was going on . |
| 16 | The other six people all used this same excuse , but at least they had some hair to wash . |
| 17 | At least they won both Tests in New Zealand . |
| 18 | At least we had each other . |
| 19 | At least he got one thing right |
| 20 | Hannah may have gone without most of the comforts that people take for granted , but at least she had emotional warmth and stability , wrapped as she was in the cocoon of a caring family — her mother , her grandparents , and for a little time her tragic father , all around her . |
| 21 | At least she had one thing to be thankful for , she consoled herself , seeing Veronica into a taxi in the Aldwych : she was in no doubt at all that Veronica would be in touch again . |
| 22 | the position of our doors are attached to the system is the fire exit 's actually blocked , by fire and that 's their only exit at least you got some opportunity to . |
| 23 | But at least I got this file sorted out . |
| 24 | I wore a suit that Mary had seen in a second-hand shop in Paris and insisted I bought so that at least I had one outfit I could put on for interviews without worrying whether it looked OK or not . |
| 25 | This was a shadowy body with few supporters but at least it represented definite opposition to the Japanese presence . |
| 26 | If such propitiation did not result in the sewing-up of any chinks , at least it stopped new chinks from showing through . |
| 27 | The society 's earlier style of spelling reform was certainly difficult , cumbersome and ludicrous in appearance ; but at least it provided consistent digraphs ( that is , pairs of letters for single sounds ) to replace the traditional ambiguous digraphs sh , th , aw , oo . |
| 28 | At least it started that way , then the sharkskin dress was rubbing against me and other things began to seem far away . |
| 29 | Luckily by then we had enough material — together with a few more worry lines . |
| 30 | Yesterday morning on the cookery up by there you needed some ice cream cake . |