Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when I actually visited the Broads that I became infected with the same enthusiasm which led Ransome to write the books . |
| 2 | I 'd hoped for a little money , at the very most , a thousand . |
| 3 | The person on duty disappeared out the back and I went to sit in the same seat where I had sat the night before . |
| 4 | Last night Dr Clarke 's election agent Kevin Scott said : ‘ One of our supporters lives in Vine Street and Donald and I went knocking on a few doors . |
| 5 | It was not difficult to arrange because I went to stay with the same farmer with whom I had spent the whole of the previous year as an evacuee . |
| 6 | As I made my way home and tried to comprehend the logic of taking another batsman on board , I kept arriving at the same conclusion — that I 'd be better off out of it . |
| 7 | It is very difficult a Sunday , but it Actually although we did n't take a vote on the bus , the few people that I did speak to a few people , and they were not terrible exited at the idea of of an outing during the week . |
| 8 | I had lived at the same place in Hampstead for over twenty years and so , as a sitting tenant , my rent was pretty cheap . |
| 9 | I had to sleep in the same room as loads of them on account of we said I was his secretary . ’ |
| 10 | The water was deep in the middle , so I had to swim for a few metres . |
| 11 | I had heard of the many mercy missions of the ruler 's private planes . |
| 12 | Faith , her boyfriend and I waited to ride on the same flight as the box . |
| 13 | This brought the number of District Geologists in Edinburgh up to 3 , a repetition of the situation which had existed for a few years in the 1920s . |
| 14 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 15 | Where a road which bears all the marks of having been laid out by the enclosure commissioners makes , at longish intervals , a sudden right-angled bend , sometimes two bends in quick succession , one can be pretty certain that though it was planned by the commissioners it follows an even older line from one village to the next , a line which had deviated in the same way around the heads of medieval furlongs . |
| 16 | It was difficult to raise the vein as the filly staggered around , but she came to rest for a few seconds and I dug my thumb into the jugular furrow . |
| 17 | She had planned on no such thing , but the mere thought of Piers with Nicole had made her see red , and her reaction had made her angrier still . |
| 18 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
| 19 | In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney . |
| 20 | So she had jumped to a few incorrect conclusions about Piers . |
| 21 | Her lovely face came before his eyes and he thought how beautifully she had played on the few occasions she had come down here with him . |
| 22 | They hoped that the dynamic forces released by socialism would generate new wealth , enabling Britain to stride the world once more in a continuing and -equal partnership with the United States , rather than as the American satellite which she had become in the latter phases of the Second World War . |
| 23 | Molly spoke with quiet confidence as though she had become in the few hours since their arrival the owner of ‘ La Felicità ’ and the organizer of life in the house . |
| 24 | ‘ I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . ’ |
| 25 | I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . |
| 26 | She had passed through a few rooms . |
| 27 | Although aware he was an android , she had thought for a few seconds before removing her clothes . |
| 28 | She hoped it would throw Maurin off guard , persuade him she had come for a little of his flirtatious conversation at the least , a few more questions about Durance and Sabine Jourdain at the most . |
| 29 | But the notion , once born , firmly took root , refusing to let her settle , and as she wandered aimlessly about the living-room she realised she 'd soon be in danger of going stir-crazy if she had to look at the same four walls much longer . |
| 30 | SHITO-RYU Hot on the heels of Funakoshi from Okinawa came Kenwa Mabuni , who had studied under the same master , but who also had two other teachers , named Itosu and Higaonna . |