Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 2 | Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall . |
| 3 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 4 | I crept off down a little path through curling bracken . |
| 5 | Young Mrs M. looked shocked at the thought , so she waited outside , while I sprinted in for a quick glimpse at Bishop Stock 's former domain . |
| 6 | The only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott . |
| 7 | Of course , I fought back like a veritable lion but my sword and dagger were in the garret and who in the tavern would listen to my screams ? |
| 8 | Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean . |
| 9 | Once again I met up with the old Frenchman who had invited me into his home . |
| 10 | Much weakened constitutionally , I passed on to the next stage . |
| 11 | He looked at me as though he had seen me somewhere before , but I passed by with a curt nod . |
| 12 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | After we 'd agreed the itinerary I got on with the detailed flying planning , using the new French VFR maps and the American TPC ( Tactical Pilotage Charts ) which we bought from Stamfords in London . |
| 15 | ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’ |
| 16 | How I got round for the four days of the tournament , I do n't know . |
| 17 | he was going round going oh my God I got off with a real dog . |
| 18 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 19 | ‘ Even when I got by on a fast straight , where the extra power of my machine was beneficial , I thought it might be part of his plan to let me go in front and force me into making a mistake . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm happy ’ , ‘ I 'm settled ’ , ‘ Now I know what it feels like ’ , ‘ I got out on the right side ’ . |
| 21 | But once I got out of the splitting shop out into the dry , handling leather rather than skins , er it were terrific , absolutely terrific . |
| 22 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
| 23 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 24 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 25 | So I rounded up my bird-fancying friends ' old copies of Cage and Aviary and studied them until I got back to the very beginning of the season , early March . |
| 26 | Devlin said , ‘ In forty-one , I got back on a neutral boat , a Brazilian cargo ship from Ireland that put in at Lisbon , but that 's a tricky one . |
| 27 | I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits ! |
| 28 | Two weeks later I lined up in the 200 metres , one tight-bended lap of the track , in the AAA Indoor Championships , again meeting Phil Brown . |
| 29 | The water , blue and green glass , was for a moment cold , then deliciously cool ; I swam out between the steep rocks to the open sea . |
| 30 | Klondyke Trading Co are responsible for providing a variety of straps for both the home market and the world , but as I found out on a recent visit there 's more to making one guitar strap than meets the eye , let alone producing thousands . |