Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [that] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I noticed that a few counties had decided on June 6 and I sent out a letter pointing out that the recommended date was the second Saturday in June . |
| 2 | But I fancied feeling the long hard pressure of ocean waves against our hull and , though we were short-handed , I reckoned that a few days out of sight of land would shake us all down quickly . |
| 3 | We took up the coathanger as our symbol — one of the grim tools women used to induce their own abortions before the operation was legalized — and we vowed that no more women should die , become maimed or made permanently sterile as a result of trying to get an abortion . |
| 4 | Oh we did that a few times when the , the borders were closed with |
| 5 | By studying a series of successively younger embryos he found that the same cells at the tip of the limbs always contacted the central nervous system first , and that subsequent connections were always made along pathways established by the axon processes extended by these pioneer cells . |
| 6 | Now it happened that a few days earlier Jones had called up Lee R. Phillips , an attorney associated with Brigham Young University , in order to file a patent arising from his muon-fusion work . |
| 7 | He stated that the many foreigners who had worked with the impressive radio facilities of ‘ The Voice of China ’ in or near Chungking would shortly be leaving ; Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was in need of an experienced professional broadcasting executive to assist in continuing broadcasts from China on medium-wave internally , and on short-wave to the world . |
| 8 | And he warned that no more talks between local parties and the British and Irish governments could take place until Dublin dropped its territorial claim on Ulster . |
| 9 | He knew that the more strings an actor had to his bow , the wider the possibilities there were open to him . |
| 10 | But when he insisted that the same warnings should be used on advertisements , and be bigger than at present , he got them furious . |
| 11 | It meant that no more Slavs should be taken into the Dual Empire , because that would distort the balance of races there . |
| 12 | He said that the few holes they had dug and refilled would not affect his crop and , more importantly , they were the best ‘ scarecrows ’ he 'd ever known ! |