Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your family has obviously sustained you through many crises . |
| 2 | Police broke in after neighbours had not seen him for several days . |
| 3 | He had formed his own view of Jake although Harry had not coloured it by any comments other than the barest fact . |
| 4 | And yet the truth is , we accept persons such as Mr Marshall or Mr Lane to be great , though most of us can not claim to have ever scrutinized them under such conditions . |
| 5 | Papa had always protected her from such things . |
| 6 | Thrift has nearly killed her on several occasions , through the agency of old sausages , slow-punctured tyres , rusty blades . |
| 7 | Writers concerned to establish a ‘ great divide ’ between the thinking processes of different social groups have classically described them in such terms as logical/pre-logical , primitive/modern and concrete/scientific . |
| 8 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 9 | Well he had n't seen her for many years ? |
| 10 | " I have n't seen her for several weeks then she came in about two hours ago — sort of staggered into the kitchen , and she was carrying the kitten in her mouth . |
| 11 | erm she was hefty though and her sister Ann used to be enormous years ago this is , and erm she went on a , a diet , I do n't know what , how , how she lost the weight but she did and I , I had n't seen her for some years and I remember her coming to the factory this day , and she came in and she , she used to do er her flower shop , she used to do flower arrangements and the girls at work would order them you know ? |
| 12 | I have n't seen him for many years . ’ |
| 13 | He was quite categorical ; Passmore was there on Friday evening from about seven until closing time , but he had n't seen him for several weeks before then and he has n't seen him since . ’ |
| 14 | She had n't seen him for some years , of course , but she was sure that it was n't like him to be so edgy … so extraordinarily tense and restless . |
| 15 | You know when I look vexed , I goes , because I hav n't seen you for few weeks , and he walked away , come are you walking back with us ? |
| 16 | There is nothing worse than being told ‘ Yes , we had a lovely book all about the fête we held for the coronation , but I have n't seen it for some years . |
| 17 | But when they 're doing these welding jobs they have n't got them on those things so as they 're doing it like it 's all moving and |
| 18 | My family have sometimes joined me on these camps but are mainly content to be ‘ Guiding Orphans ’ as well as ‘ Medau Orphans ’ . |
| 19 | There is a professionally qualified Staff of three in the Learning Support Department , , who has had many years of experience here at Heriot 's , both in the Junior School and in Learning Support ; ; who has more recently joined us after several years experience in Learning Support in other schools ; and who , as Head of Department and an experienced educational psychologist , is responsible for the assessment of our pupils and for the planning of their programmes within the Department . |
| 20 | I do n't remember that I 've never seen it on any minutes |
| 21 | ‘ I 've never seen you without those glasses on . ’ |