Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized with a shock the same thing could be said of me now and I 've got no hormones . |
| 2 | Her warm and wide smile greeted me at the door and I forgot for a while the riddles and innuendos which surrounded Brian Harley and hid the killer of Froggy Davies . |
| 3 | I went for a walk the dog in Ambarro this morning it was a joke ! |
| 4 | I cried like a baby every time I tried to close my eyes . |
| 5 | I saw the virtue of her advice most clearly when I stayed with a girlfriend a few weeks ago . |
| 6 | The General Strike is often taken as the symbol of the industrial relations of these years — and is seen as an event which brought to an end the militant trade unionism of almost two decades . |
| 7 | The General Strike is often taken as the symbol for the industrial relations of these years — and is seen as an event which brought to an end the militant trade unionism of almost two decades . |
| 8 | Earlier the same year it had been preceded by a Criminal Law Act which brought to an end the time-honoured division of crimes into felonies and misdemeanours , as well as abolishing certain obsolete crimes and the torts of maintenance and champerty on the recommendation of the Law Commission . |
| 9 | You got into a fight the other night . |
| 10 | The incident with the car had taken her mind off Luke , but as she changed into a housecoat a sudden idea flashed across her mind . |
| 11 | Embarrassed , she drew from a shelf a book on Møn . |
| 12 | She woke with a start the next morning , confused and disorientated . |
| 13 | The killer stole £8,500 she withdrew from an account the previous day . |
| 14 | When she walked into a village the Africans would often clap their hands in a reverential way . |
| 15 | She stood in the queue for some minutes , till she was served by a sweating , grimy woman , who sprayed from a height a tray full of cups , and slapped the change down on a counter awash with various fluids . |
| 16 | She brought as a present a portrait of Mother Mary as she appeared to the children at Fatima , executed by someone of sentimental disposition , and a statue of the Virgin Mary , the mould fashioned by someone of a melancholy and austere frame of mind . |
| 17 | In New Hope Copse she saw at a distance a man holding the hand of a small child , inclining to her the way adults do when walking with little ones , while his free arm swept the air to possess the oaks , the beeches , the ash . |
| 18 | Oh Deborah was moaning cos she went to a party the other last one this week , I think at the beginning of the week , and the had Joey the clown and Mr Nuttey , she said oh I 'd like them , but Sue said she went sort of a bit earlier and see how they got on and eh , she said oh it was n't the same at five , they did n't respond and . |
| 19 | She felt for an instant the brush of his breath against her hair . |
| 20 | Or no , do n't tell me , ’ she denied with a scowl every bit as horrible as her son 's , ‘ he 's adopted another blasted lame duck and has got him living here with him ! |
| 21 | Anyway , she cited as an example the fact that it warmed her heart to hear the fledgling ringing the hospital every day to find out how you were . " |
| 22 | Some years ago we lent to a colleague a memory-training book with a very attractive title , which implied that after studying the book the reader would have a superb memory for all occasions . |
| 23 | So as we came to a stop the hatch was opened and this young fellow put one foot on the throttle quadrant , another on my shoulder and the next one on the top of my helmet and he was out . |
| 24 | Indeed as Dottrens noticed in his world survey of primary curriculum in 1962 there seems to be a bit more of everything included in a curriculum every time it is revised — a trend which is likely to be reinforced whenever syllabuses are designed by committees rather than individuals . |
| 25 | We included in an appendix a selection of teaching strategies which provide ‘ ways into texts ’ of whatever genre , period or level of difficulty . |
| 26 | We went in a bar the other day |
| 27 | When the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales , and the Gwent and Brecknock Wildlife Trusts met council officers and their advisers they asked for an assurance the council would proceed with the bill ( 2 ) . |
| 28 | He waited till they slowed to a stop a few feet away and a voice said , ‘ Joe ? |
| 29 | They discussed for a moment the possibility that they might get into dreadful trouble but discounted it . |
| 30 | Rye stood out from most other towns in that it became for a while a Puritan ‘ Common Wealth ’ , a centre of social experiment and rigorous public morality under its two vicars , Joseph Beeton and his successor John Allen . |