Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bronze was cast in standard ingots that were about 0.9 metres long with inward-curving sides that made them easier to carry on the shoulder , as shown on one of the contemporary Egyptian tomb paintings depicting Minoan emissaries . |
| 2 | He seemed likely to be doing it for quite some time to come as , rather than actually having an election , it is more a case of finding someone willing to take on the job . |
| 3 | When we find ourselves unable to think straight the pattern is the same . |
| 4 | I thought it was Kim sat there when I first come down the stair , I did n't know , did n't know her . |
| 5 | Erm when I first came out the army . |
| 6 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 7 | It was at the conference in the Vatican mentioned earlier that I first put forward the suggestion that maybe time and space together formed a surface that was finite in size but did not have any boundary or edge . |
| 8 | I honestly had n't read anything as interesting since I first picked up a novel by Thomas Hardy . ’ |
| 9 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 10 | I 'm not taking the pictures for the reason I first picked up a camera . |
| 11 | To join the band , I first picked up the sweater piece with right side facing and then using a three pronged latch tool I picked up the band . |
| 12 | When I first loaded up the pack I really thought it would be a bit top heavy — it 's a longer and slimmer pack than most British models — but I was delighted to discover that my fears were unfounded . |
| 13 | That failed you as my own gave up the ghost . |
| 14 | If only they could teach a thing or two to Gloucestershire — they go into Sunday 's match with Derbyshire looking for their first win over a county side this season . |
| 15 | They all stood in the rapidly darkening garden , most of them glad to have even the illusion of activity to take their minds off the unchanging situation . |
| 16 | The risk will grow if any of the following should happen : a spike in interest rates ( forward rates already indicate that investors expect higher rates by the end of the year ) ; an unexpected collapse of the dollar ( the Federal Reserve , at the Treasury 's direction , was intervening furiously last week to prevent the already weak currency from sinking further ) ; or , let's face it , if Washington proves itself unable to wrestle down the budget deficit . |
| 17 | It was Damian , the Dysons ' younger son , who first brought up the subject of marriage . |
| 18 | It was Virchow in the middle of the nineteenth century who first put forward the concept of arterial wall injury leading to the development of the atheromatous plaque . |
| 19 | ‘ When did you first find out the affair was going on ? ’ the superintendent asked . |
| 20 | ‘ You two caused quite a stir back at High Command , ’ she said as she joined us . |
| 21 | You two think quietly a minute |
| 22 | Nothing substantial hangs on the decision . |
| 23 | Yasmin 's brother brought her to London from their home in Bradford for the day , but meeting at the tube station proved nearly impossible , as we each had only a telephone description of the other and had unfortunately arranged to meet the same Saturday as a huge poll tax march . |
| 24 | It 's not enough any more to have comfortable boots and something waterproof to slip over a jumper . |
| 25 | So we all walked down the corner there we all had our beds round there everything was laid out . |
| 26 | Either he gets it right or we all go up the Swanee . ’ |
| 27 | Arthur Crawford , renowned plantsman , created a glorious Garden City Centre on that first morning of C.A. ‘ 92 , and perhaps the two ideals were realised as we all served together the rest of the week in true society . |
| 28 | We all cheered up a bit after that . |
| 29 | ‘ We all kid around a bit , ’ Parker said . |
| 30 | Let's , you know I mean Judith 's saying , well I 've got some good work sheets on this , I mean we can all say that if we all know where the work sheets are |