Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Srnicek , in for injured Tommy Wright , asked to go on the list last season because his family were desperately unhappy in England . |
| 2 | She had n't taken his horse and left him when he 'd fallen into a stupor last night . |
| 3 | At that moment there came a faint scratching from the box I 'd built in the corner last evening for the pigeon . |
| 4 | In consequence , I was particularly disappointed you were not able to accept the invitation I 'd extended via the boys last year . |
| 5 | Clearly his gentler behaviour when he 'd returned to the hut last night had been an aberration . |
| 6 | The leader of this threat is Nik Aziz Nik Mat , a humble-mannered man who was elected chief minister of Kelantan after a working life spent teaching in the mosque next to his birthplace . |
| 7 | But while they were out in the garden during the afternoon they began talking to the man next door who had a motorbike and was leaving for the City on it at seven . |
| 8 | Reid 's star began to rise with a vengeance last year when he became associated with the stable of Peter Chapple-Hyam who provided him with the horse every jockey wants to have — a Derby winner . |
| 9 | I decided to go for the pills first , but after three months I was still in agony so I went for the laser operation . |
| 10 | Er but since the multiples started trading on a Sunday last year our sales just went down . |
| 11 | He carried on flying , looking for a place to land and so flew back to the wireless station and decided to land in a field next to it . |
| 12 | Hell , I was meant to be looking after him and then you both started talking in the room next to mine . |
| 13 | I meant to go to the bank last , I meant to get cash for that guy but I 'll make him a cheque . |
| 14 | But he avoided sitting on the sofa next to her although she 'd left space . |
| 15 | Barney had flown to the States last Thursday , and she was driving to London later that Tuesday to the flat where he and Cara lived . |
| 16 | From the letter Brian had received from the newspaper last November , we knew that his sisters and friends were working for him and we had also heard that Jill , Nick Toksvig and other friends were active on my behalf . |
| 17 | Defending solicitor Bob Emuss said that problems for Mrs. White had come to a head last February . |
| 18 | One young constable had come to the house last year when they had been burgled and , very laboriously , had written the details of the crime into a book . |
| 19 | It was since that child had come into the house last night . |
| 20 | Though she was only a part-time whore who ‘ had to stand at the washtub next day . ’ |
| 21 | The British still believed themselves to retain ‘ shared values ’ which the debate over a national educational curriculum in the 1980s helped stimulate anew , as it had done in the French Third Republic after 1875 . |
| 22 | She rummaged through the assorted pile , looking for her new lipstick and perfume , and spotted the mail which she had collected from the postman first thing , on her way to the shops . |
| 23 | If Club Med or Universal Studios had thought of the idea first and sited it in Europe , it would probably have attracted government subsidies . |
| 24 | Croydon-born Ted Harding had played for the Palace first team as early as October 1942 and he became the longest-playing survivor of our 1946–47 Football League side , for he was still appearing for us in April 1953 . |
| 25 | Mansell , who had led from the record 14th pole position start of his season , had been resisting persistent challenges from Senna before the pair tangled . |
| 26 | Industry leaders say two salmon farms had to call in the receivers last week and others will have to follow suit unless the European Union takes action . |
| 27 | Industry leaders say two salmon farms had to call in the receivers last week and others will have to follow suit unless the European Union takes action . |
| 28 | Murray , he alleged , then had gone to the bothy next door where he had injected three men with heroin . |
| 29 | More than 300,000 Hindus had converged on the town last week to destroy the temple . |
| 30 | I sank into a squashy chair not caring whether we were on fire or not , it had to get through the water first . |