Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls . |
| 2 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 3 | One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put . |
| 4 | I cried out in relief and happiness : I thought I recognised him as a former schoolmate , a boy with whom I used to exchange groans about the maths problems whose solutions so frequently eluded us . |
| 5 | I handed it to a former flight engineer of 213 when I visited him in Toronto some years ago . |
| 6 | I enjoyed it for a few weeks but then went to Stanley . ’ |
| 7 | If I contacted him on the same number that I contacted you |
| 8 | I killed him for no more reason than I wanted to do it . |
| 9 | I comforted myself with a few thoughts of what I would do to the culprit if I ever caught him ; realised that was highly unlikely , and headed for the golf course . |
| 10 | I felt something of the same awe and excitement I had experienced four years before when tramping round and round Warwick Gardens with Chesterton , debating the execution of Charles I. Here was someone who ought to have been a member of the Society that G. K. C. had dominated at St. Paul 's from 1891 to 1893 . |
| 11 | Occasionally I treated myself to a half hour browse in a bookshop . |
| 12 | from my vantage point I saw nothing in the few seconds between the County Inspector 's announcement to have incited what appeared to be a concerted start by the police . |
| 13 | I taunted him with the same lie Ursula used . |
| 14 | ‘ I started a similar scheme in Wellington , but then I did it at the same hour on the same day every week . |
| 15 | I said nothing for a few seconds . |
| 16 | I forgave him for the many occasions on which he had unthinkingly made me feel mentally subnormal . |
| 17 | So I chipped it into a little space over the scrum , ran round , picked it up and went up the middle of the field . |
| 18 | ‘ I heard that , ’ she told him in the same language . |
| 19 | She saw them at the same moment and hesitated , then she turned and began walking back the way she had come . |
| 20 | To her , religion was morality and appearance , and she kept it in the same compartment of her mind as her dinner napkins . |
| 21 | She spotted us at the same time and after a long look , took her offspring and ambled away along the side of the mountain . |
| 22 | We contented ourselves with a few small purchases , but will probably go there for some more serious shopping before the end of our stay in Peking , as it is obviously the best place in the country for buying touristy things . |
| 23 | Then [ by the given property of U ] t — 1 + 1 ε U. That is t ε U. But t ε T [ we chose it as the least element of T ] and so unc a contradiction . |
| 24 | yeah we did it on the same night . |
| 25 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 26 | Covering the work to protect from frost and rain , we left it for a few days to dry , which helps the shuttering to loosen itself too . |
| 27 | We decided we did n't really like a lot of our clothes , so we replaced them with a few very simple things . ’ |
| 28 | As they served themselves from the many little dishes , Maura surveyed her companion . |
| 29 | Here they established themselves in a former clan stronghold , the island castle of Eilean Donan , at the point where Loch Alsh divided into Loch Long and Loch Duich , the latter giving access , via Glen Shiel , Glen Moriston and Loch Ness , to the route to Inverness . |
| 30 | They saw him at the same time as he realised he had n't understood what the man had said . |