Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We half expected them to come back a few days later , but they have never returned to the barn we prepared so painstakingly for them , although they are still sometimes seen in the vicinity . |
| 2 | Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview . |
| 3 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
| 4 | I crept back the few yards to the way marked path and walked on down the track . |
| 5 | I felt that the design for this holiday picture should be a natural and less structured design than normal , so I laid out the pressed stems of eucalyptus which naturally fell into a fan shape and used that as the basis of my design . |
| 6 | I intend over the next Journals to put them on record for all members , who are unable to visit the Museum at Bishop 's Castle , to reproduce them for you . |
| 7 | And I bring back the livin' herbs , some overproof rum , some italvital dubplates and some duty-free ribbed condoms . |
| 8 | I make out the sunk foundations |
| 9 | This gave me pause , and when I returned to the hut I tried out a few grins into a hand mirror , and decided he was quite right ! |
| 10 | ‘ I found out a few weeks ago that the canon there says prayers for John every day . ’ |
| 11 | I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me . |
| 12 | For my part , I sometimes think of the film Psycho as I walk up the bleaker staircases to people 's homes in Hackney . |
| 13 | Most of my friends collapsed thankfully on to their beds , but I slunk down the long flights of stone stairs and took up a position in the foyer where I could watch the front door . |
| 14 | I have , therefore , taken advantage of your absence on academic business to give the matter more thought and I feel it might be best if I set out the various considerations involved in written form . |
| 15 | I pulled up a few tufts of grass and covered the blood . |
| 16 | I think I settled down a few years back . |
| 17 | Well , she thought , it wo n't be difficult to judge how right I am , if I pay out a few yards of line for him . |
| 18 | Come and see the sorcerer 's kitchen where I brew up the grotesque potions that make me a legend here . ’ |
| 19 | Accordingly I looked up the various symptoms and cases of several diseases . |
| 20 | I looked up the authentic sources ; the Comte de Horne turned out not to be an illegitimate son of Louis XV ; the marriage had been consummated and he had died of indigestion . |
| 21 | I looked down the other scores and confirmed that Jack was in about twentieth place , so he would need a very special round today to force his way back among the leaders . |
| 22 | Tyler and I go back a few years . |
| 23 | As a personal contribution to the stability of British industry ( who on earth invented that one ? ) may I pass on a few nuggets of advice : |
| 24 | I walked silently , testing every step I took on the rough paths , just as I had used to walk with my mother in the woods near Štanjel . |
| 25 | When I took on the marine operations every ship had a fiftyfour man crew and it seemed to me that this was inefficient , so I did a trip on a ship and I came back quite convinced you could actually run a ship with twenty-one men . |
| 26 | I took over a hundred members to the rally in Hyde Park , erm two thirds of my workforce , and it was magnificent to see all the trade unionists there , especially the G M B banners . |
| 27 | I gave up a few years ago . ’ |
| 28 | I cleared out the forgotten corners which exist in every family home , sending old clothes to jumble sales , and asking boy scouts to collect useless piles of old newspapers and magazines . |
| 29 | I waited around a few minutes and had a chance to talk with Tony Dorigo and met his mother who works in the Digital office in Birmingham . |
| 30 | I jotted down a few extracts from The Boyfriends . |