Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 When I went in there the other week , you walk in and think is n't she nice .
2 She recognised at once the well-built woman who turned from some chore at the kitchen sink as the woman who had opened the door to her last Friday .
3 Cos a I I 've got the contracts right in the Body Shop , we got Karen she used to work in Superdrug , and she came in there the other day and I 'm saying , och , do you know Michelle ?
4 So Plato , who wrote about both the Athenian family of Pisistratus and the tyranny in fourth-century Sicily , spoke ( Rep .
5 In place of the great Moscow or Kolomna merchant , the Nizhny Novogorod miller , the Moscow flax or hemp-factory owner , the large export wholesaler , and the old ‘ flour dealers ’ , the railroad stations now swarmed with a mass of small traders , exporters , and commission merchants , all buying grain , hemp , hides , lard , sheepskin , down and bristles — in a word , everything bound for either the domestic or the foreign market .
6 We had over here the double whammy of taxation increases and price increases if Kinnock got elected .
7 Below : Buffalo 's officers gave a rousing cheer to the Duke of Edinburgh and Lord Sterling as they passed by abroad the Royal yacht , Britannia
8 It was the best lesson I 've ever had , and it came at just the right time . ’
9 A former chairman of Swindon Town Football Club has admitted in court that he lied to both the Inland Revenue and the Football League .
10 But it appeared at precisely the right moment to catch the poststructuralist tide associated with Derrida and the later Barthes , and several of the most influential titles brought together , rather uneasily , poststructuralism and Marxism .
11 He spotted at once the no-nonsense tones of the Koran , and , as always when The Book was being quoted , kept his eyes on his chest and tried to look like a man willing to leap off his chair on to all fours , ready for total prostration at any moment .
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