Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | You got into a fight the other night . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Embarrassed , she drew from a shelf a book on Møn . |
| 9 | She woke with a start the next morning , confused and disorientated . |
| 10 | The killer stole £8,500 she withdrew from an account the previous day . |
| 11 | When she walked into a village the Africans would often clap their hands in a reverential way . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She felt for an instant the brush of his breath against her hair . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | 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 . " |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We included in an appendix a selection of teaching strategies which provide ‘ ways into texts ’ of whatever genre , period or level of difficulty . |
| 21 | We went in a bar the other day |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | He waited till they slowed to a stop a few feet away and a voice said , ‘ Joe ? |
| 24 | They discussed for a moment the possibility that they might get into dreadful trouble but discounted it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It is highly unlikely that he envisaged anything more than joint diplomatic pressure on Russia which would bring Nicholas to the conference table to discuss the problems at issue , which explains why he used as a pretext the totally ridiculous question of the keys to the Holy places in Jerusalem , whose custody was disputed between the Latin Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches . |
| 27 | But he mentioned in an essay the degree to which certain forms of anaemia were conducive to such creation ; and , in our conversation that day , he described how , when he was working on The Waste Land in Switzerland in 1921 ( ‘ by the waters of Leman ’ ) , he felt at one moment that his brain was going to burst . |
| 28 | Even as he lifted from a cupboard the freshly ironed shirts , about which he was so particular , he was already mentally back in England . |
| 29 | The United Kingdom , Belgium and Greece all took the view that Community law did not limit the competence of each state under public international law to define as it thought fit the conditions upon which it granted to a vessel the right to fly its flag . |
| 30 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |