Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [be] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett suddenly realised he was in the corner of the hall . |
| 2 | In the bucket in the cupboard Barry the Time Sprout woke suddenly to find he was in the wrong chapter . |
| 3 | Squatters have long felt they 're at the receiving end of a bad press and have have welcomed tonight 's opportunity to express their side of the story . |
| 4 | Oxford the red hot favourites have made 3 changes to their lineup in the run up to this year 's race and Sam was only told she was in the boat at the weekend . |
| 5 | Not outstanding success , for I was still missing nine out of ten bites , hut enough to suggest I was on the right track . |
| 6 | Yet the polls show that most voters want inflation stopped , and the main opposition , the Workers ' party , while formally denouncing the plan as ‘ authoritarian , demagogic , privatising and favourable to foreign capital ’ , may merely wish it were in a position to do likewise . |
| 7 | That might sound a ludicrous attempt to escape paying for a colour TV licence , but he obviously thought it was worth a try . |
| 8 | You know , so they obviously think it 's like the floor in the house you know . |
| 9 | ‘ How long had you been at the Jenner Clinic ? ’ |
| 10 | how long had you been in the police force ? |
| 11 | Even if there never will be any easy answers to such questions , and certainly not ones which could be read off from some kind of ‘ correct analysis ’ , it is still the case that the better informed we are about the complexities which underlie them the quicker we will be able to learn from our mistakes . |
| 12 | How long does you happen to have in his family , how long have they been in the collection ? |
| 13 | ‘ How … how long have we been on the move ? ’ she asked . |
| 14 | He 's a bill sales , how long have we been in the indoor sales , or territory four , nine , one , in Manchester depot , which covers the Greater Stockport area . |
| 15 | ‘ How long have you been with the PGA ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ How long have you been with the New York Times ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ How long have you been with the ship ? ’ she asked . |
| 18 | how long have you been on the name game , a year ? |
| 19 | How long have you been in the army ? |
| 20 | ‘ How long have you been in the office ? ’ he asks . |
| 21 | ‘ Sir Gerard , Sir Brian , ’ he almost shouted in an attempt to rouse Cranston , ‘ how long have you been in the Tower ? ’ |
| 22 | How long have you been in the Army ? |
| 23 | Time was never called and the tide was soon to discover it was on a hiding to nothing . |
| 24 | We started accumulating works of art and people just assumed I was in the business . |
| 25 | The guy was probably dead when we tipped him into the shaft — we just assumed he was at the time though the older I got the less sure of that I was — but even if was n't , he must have been killed when he hit the bottom ; it 's thirty metres at least . |
| 26 | When he did finally speak it was with a studied calm to smother his irritation . |
| 27 | When she did finally speak it was in a whisper . |
| 28 | they , if , I mean , if the pass mark is ninety percent and I 've already decided it 's worth a pass then I give it ninety percent you see ! |
| 29 | And that would be , that would be , so if we 're doing it this way , right , let's let's erm , forget about where we are sitting at the moment now , and just look we 're in a helicopter looking at these ships now , so this one radios you in the helicopter and says , that ship S is on a bearing of forty five degrees |
| 30 | Of all the ways to commit a murder , is n't it a strange coincidence that Angy was stabbed in the throat , just like she was in the portrait ? ’ |