Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing moved there except the few blackheaded gulls wheeling and crying above the river . |
| 2 | And when I come here and I lived here for a few year and then really saw what it was like , I thought , God , never again . |
| 3 | The only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott . |
| 4 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 5 | The tent is extremely stable especially in very high winds as I found out on a few wet and wild nights . |
| 6 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 7 | Just for a change I teamed up with a few fellow warriors to take on the Witchlord in Gremlin 's RPG-for-the-masses , Heroquest . |
| 8 | We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours . |
| 9 | I recall that my right hon. Friend and I campaigned together on the same side in favour of a ’ yes ’ vote in the 1975 referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Community . |
| 10 | I meant not in the same way . |
| 11 | I struggled manfully for a few minutes , neatly nicking Ann 's fishing hat off , which we had to row after to recover ; catching Alan 's flies , on a back cast , and finally managing to get floss and line mixed up in an unbelievably intricate tangle . |
| 12 | During my spell on the late desk I went out on no fewer than eleven murders . |
| 13 | During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children . |
| 14 | I did n't want to leave the Maxteds behind because they had started out as my passengers , so I went back in a few minutes later to see if they were ready to leave . |
| 15 | ‘ He and I grew up in the same town . |
| 16 | ‘ I grew up in the same street as Alex Maskey , ’ said Mr Blair who also knew SF 's Paddy McManus many years ago . |
| 17 | well we ca n't go into the reasons for that but I said let's respect the reasons I said if that 's how you feel I said , you 're a man you you must make your own decisions I said probably in a few months time you 'll come |
| 18 | I slept well after a few pints of Sussex Devil at the local , and woke up to find my caddie famous . ’ |
| 19 | I carried on at the same point in the book and you did not seem to notice . |
| 20 | ‘ I ended up with the same look as with the hot-air brushes , but it can only be used on dry hair . |
| 21 | As usual , the interesting people told me to piss off , and I ended up with the same old circle of publicity seekers . ’ |
| 22 | Devon and Cornwall 's canals connected agricultural areas with the goods they needed which came in through the many small ports . |
| 23 | Each tier was held in place by tiny press studs which sprang apart at the least pressure . |
| 24 | That is to say , if one made the same measurement on a large number of similar systems , each of which started off in the same way , one would find that the result of the measurement would be A in a certain number of cases , B in a different number , and so on . |
| 25 | Similar doubts were expressed about the study of the environment , which took off about the same time , but this seems to have gained a much firmer academic foothold , despite the fact that such courses range from the physical to the social with , as one CRAC Degree Course Guide put it , almost nothing in common between these two extremes . |
| 26 | Still able to feel the firm sand beneath her feet , she swam quietly for a few minutes , before turning over on to her back . |
| 27 | The hunt itself moved on after a few minutes , leaving the terrier man to flush out the fox . |
| 28 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 29 | Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week . |
| 30 | She came back in a few minutes , looking very serious . |