Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ten-minute soak worked wonders on Merrill 's jaded sense of well-being , and when she went down she found the three of them seated around a huge log fire . |
| 2 | ‘ How many of them lacked only the good fortune that saved you ? ’ |
| 3 | I never did get the hang of table tennis but I became quite a useful bantam-weight and once even represented the club against Bethnal Green . |
| 4 | I asked how the financial problems afflicting the charity had come about ? |
| 5 | When I asked how the Public Accounts Committee could examine what I regarded as gross excesses and a gross dereliction of duty by the Secretary of State for Transport , I was told — quite properly that the PAC could investigate only specific charges . |
| 6 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
| 7 | Anyway I made completely the wrong decision with her with her the first time . |
| 8 | Half-blinded by shadow I made out a steep wall of steps and moved towards it . |
| 9 | I twisted around and almost blinded myself by staring straight into the sun , but then , through the dizzying glare , I made out the long silhouette of a tall man who seemed , incongruously , to be dressed in a long , transparent dressing gown . |
| 10 | Although I hated the very idea of selling things to people who might not want to buy them ( even if it was good for them ) I made quite a few sales , the main commission deriving from the sale of a Group Insurance Scheme to 32 men from the Times-Herald staff . |
| 11 | I crept back the few yards to the way marked path and walked on down the track . |
| 12 | I choked back a heartfelt tear . |
| 13 | I felt that the design for this holiday picture should be a natural and less structured design than normal , so I laid out the pressed stems of eucalyptus which naturally fell into a fan shape and used that as the basis of my design . |
| 14 | Martens says : ‘ Of course I realised immediately the historic importance of the book and the show together . |
| 15 | I led up the awkward flake crack to a sitting stance on the Pedestal — a huge , flat topped flake stuck to the face — and called up the big guns . |
| 16 | I fought down the ghastly urge coming up from my stomach . |
| 17 | With such thoughts in my head and lithe grace in my movements , I loped up the grassy knoll to the court . |
| 18 | Peeling the shit-stained newspaper from the bottom of the cage , I emptied out the accumulated guano and went off to look for some fresh newspaper . |
| 19 | I registered only the habitual glow of pleasurable comfort , but when I opened the envelope the reaction was one of electric shock . |
| 20 | By the time I got up the next morning , I had determined to sell the baker 's shop to the highest bidder unless Charlie Trumper were willing to take on the responsibility himself . |
| 21 | I got quite a few things in there . |
| 22 | I got quite a few kicks out of doing that . |
| 23 | Said yeah and then I changed my mind as soon as I got out the fucking door . |
| 24 | So I got out the original word processor program disks and loaded them into the directory . |
| 25 | ‘ I wrote a letter two days ago suggesting a meeting and this morning I got back a curt note suggesting a time . |
| 26 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 27 | I tumbled over a drunk lying spreadeagled in the close . |
| 28 | I experienced exactly the same difficulty with my Panasonic printer when , like William , I upgraded to Windows 3.1 and Word 2 . |
| 29 | This gave me pause , and when I returned to the hut I tried out a few grins into a hand mirror , and decided he was quite right ! |
| 30 | Next I tried out a different approach . |