Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rang the School of Tropical Medicine in London and told them I 'd picked up a botfly , and they said ‘ very exciting ’ and quoted me some home cures : ‘ Keep a raw steak over the hole for a couple of hours and the larva will burrow to the surface to breathe and then you can take the steak away … ‘ |
| 2 | Certainly , if I were a script writer , and I had to think up the most inappropriate name for a girl dressed as a man , the above tendencies would lead me to choose a monosyllabic form , using a closed syllable , ending in a consonant as far away from a continuant as I can find — a plosive — and with a vowel as far away from /i/ as I can find , such as /a/ or /o/ . |
| 3 | I wanted to sniff around a little , and I always do that better on my own , without distractions . |
| 4 | A conference inspired by Beyond the Fragments , was held in Leeds in September 1980 — the first major Right-On gathering after the election which had ushered in the then relatively unknown doctrine of Thatcherism . |
| 5 | It did n't seem at all surprising that she 'd slowed down a little . |
| 6 | I called several hours later , by which time she had calmed down a little , but was smoking one cigarette after another . |
| 7 | She had filled out a little since Sarah had last seen her and she was no longer drab . |
| 8 | But nearby there was a very large adult macaque who had worked out an even better solution . |
| 9 | And his face itself had taken on an almost gaunt look , the strong bone-structure rigidly marked , and the skin itself only lightly tanned , despite the hot summer they had just enjoyed . |
| 10 | I was astonished when we began walking down the now weed-strewn path to feel a familiar feeling of fear and expectation . |
| 11 | Small things still gave us hope and the rare glimpses of colour we saw took on an almost spiritual quality . |
| 12 | They seemed to keep up a fairly regular speed and , although it was bumpy , she 's sure they did n't climb any steep hills in a low gear . |
| 13 | She did love him , she had always loved him , but now that they were both adults the love she felt for him had taken on a far greater significance . |
| 14 | They had put up a sufficiently worthy defence and could yield with honour . |
| 15 | For anyone disposed to take on the often very satisfying task of making banners I can assure them that there are several very kind ‘ Barnabases ’ in the church whose comments and encouragements I have valued . |
| 16 | From somewhere she could hear a lecturer droning ; maybe it needed speeding up a little . |
| 17 | He managed to put over a fairly complex argument in a brilliantly simple way . ’ |
| 18 | He had leaned back a little , brushing her hair back softly with his fingers , pausing to gaze long and deep into her eyes . |
| 19 | Although this was an extremely delicate operation for Nizan to perform , given that in 1934 he had carried out the rather complex act of ideological rehabilitation designed to demonstrate that Gide 's intellectual itinerary was such as to lead him inevitably to a commitment to communism , he none the less succeeded in combining professional respect for Gide 's qualities as a writer with penetrating criticism of what he considered to be Gide 's superficial analysis and hasty dismissal of the Soviet state . |
| 20 | But only yesterday he had pulled off the best purchase yet — not the biggest , but a vital strip of land running along the foreshore . |