Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now when er when I was coming down er , coming from , I lived on the Green then , to go to work , we used to met er a person and we used to call her Rosie . |
| 2 | When I listened to the six o'clock news |
| 3 | As a result of what one of the men ( the witness ) John Smith said to me I spoke to the accused etc . ’ |
| 4 | And when the Virgin Mary died she rose from the dead too ; not just her soul went up to heaven , but her body too . ’ |
| 5 | Which left her free to make mistakes , overdo the set of his features , and she grinned at the strange yet familiar creature , disdainful nose , filll lips and ridiculous chin . |
| 6 | Instead she settled for the three most applicable adjectives she could think of . |
| 7 | You did about the same actually . |
| 8 | But when we came into the straight again he was always beside me , running , panting , straining to get ahead just as I was . |
| 9 | We grew throughout the 1980s better than any other major European country except Spain : we received the highest growth in manufacturing productivity of any Group of Seven country and faster growth in business investment than any other G7 country except Japan . |
| 10 | They called off the alert only after finding Frankie 's hat and ‘ cowboy ’ gun in the house in Chippenham , Wilts . |
| 11 | So they went to the Kildingy Well which was s supposed to have some kind of magical properties you see and er I do n't ken if it was a a holy well or exactly but it certainly was reputed to have some kind of properties that could cure supposed to cure any disease save the black death . |
| 12 | So they went to the Kildingy Well and dipped their flails in the water . |
| 13 | He was a champion of 19th century book illustration , which he regarded as the last relatively unexplored corner of the English artistic tradition . |
| 14 | It referred to the previous centrally planned economy as ‘ unimaginable ’ in the changed circumstances brought about by reform . |
| 15 | It came to the fore most strongly when she faced the fact that some day Dimity might marry . |
| 16 | He turned to the other characteristically skeletal bronze . |
| 17 | He turned to the Indian again , asking questions in Spanish and getting nowhere . |
| 18 | He returned to the offensive only when a Polish general in Hungarian service , Józef Bem , took most of Transylvania out of the hands of the local Austrian commanders . |
| 19 | It developed from the 1920s onwards , particularly for mass consumer goods produced in large production runs , although it spread to the ‘ production of standardized intermediate components for the manufacture of these means of consumption ’ ( Aglietta , 1979 : 117 ) . |
| 20 | We quickly downed ours and he called for the same again . |
| 21 | Satisfied that they were staying put , he flicked on the two-way again . |
| 22 | Mrs Ivy Williams ? ’ he said to the large heavily-made-up woman who answered his ring . |
| 23 | ‘ The service was lousy , ’ he said of the private resupply , ‘ but I did n't ask who was providing it … |
| 24 | It spread to the Chinese around 2 , years ago and then reached Japan where they cultivated it into the art form it is today . |