Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |
| 2 | The only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott . |
| 3 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 4 | The tent is extremely stable especially in very high winds as I found out on a few wet and wild nights . |
| 5 | These issues I touch on in the latter part of the chapter . |
| 6 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 7 | With my burdens lying against the brickwork of the bridge , I walk on along the same narrow path that now begins to climb the side of a rather bald looking hill . |
| 8 | Just for a change I teamed up with a few fellow warriors to take on the Witchlord in Gremlin 's RPG-for-the-masses , Heroquest . |
| 9 | We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours . |
| 10 | I set up on the same spot as in the previous summer , but this time my luck was different . |
| 11 | Last year I set out on the same quest , but met with little success . |
| 12 | During my spell on the late desk I went out on no fewer than eleven murders . |
| 13 | I did n't want to leave the Maxteds behind because they had started out as my passengers , so I went back in a few minutes later to see if they were ready to leave . |
| 14 | ‘ He and I grew up in the same town . |
| 15 | ‘ I grew up in the same street as Alex Maskey , ’ said Mr Blair who also knew SF 's Paddy McManus many years ago . |
| 16 | I carried on at the same point in the book and you did not seem to notice . |
| 17 | ‘ I ended up with the same look as with the hot-air brushes , but it can only be used on dry hair . |
| 18 | As usual , the interesting people told me to piss off , and I ended up with the same old circle of publicity seekers . ’ |
| 19 | When it comes to her imagined transcriptions of Jip 's diary , she goes on in the same descriptive vein for a paragraph , then stops herself with an abrupt exclamation of ‘ No , he would n't say all that ’ ( 54 ) , whereupon she starts again in more concise fashion . |
| 20 | It hits his head and you do n't hear the noise it makes because you cry out at the same time , as though it 's you in the bed , you being attacked , you being killed . |
| 21 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 22 | Tack into a gap once you have expended about half the time to the start from the buoy , then even if you sail back at the same speed , you can not be early . |
| 23 | Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week . |
| 24 | She came back in a few minutes , looking very serious . |
| 25 | If you go twice as fast as something else , and you started out at the same instant from the same spot , you 'd go twice as far — which is what you found . |
| 26 | You thrash around for a few minutes , trying not to breathe , but you have to inhale sometimes . ’ |
| 27 | She looked back through the many pages she had written , and saw the great names glitter there — Proclus , Plotinus , Iamblichus , Ficino , Pico , Agrippa . |
| 28 | ‘ It means of course , ’ she went on in the same level tone , ‘ that you will not be free to make a decision until your uncle dies . |
| 29 | But Dreadnought , let alone all her other weak places , had been holed amidships by a baulk of timber , and before long the water poured into her with a sound like a sigh and she went down in a few seconds . |
| 30 | Otherwise you end up with a some very very strange results . |