Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prevention of purprestures was his responsibility : he threw down houses , sheepfolds and other buildings and enclosures erected without licence in his bailiwick , and attached those who made them to appear at the next Forest Eyre . |
| 2 | And often , as I sat writing such poems that helped me cling to the last shreds of my many identities , I would suddenly sense that you were indeed approaching . |
| 3 | PALEFACE David Mellor walked into a hall full of journalists last night … and found himself drinking in The Last Chance Saloon . |
| 4 | IT IS a measure of the strength of the entry for the Hi-Tec British Open Championships that the world No 28 , Brett Newton , of Australia , found himself eliminated in the first round of the qualifying competition yesterday . |
| 5 | Beth shuffled her feet in the awkward silence and found herself looking at the second man more closely . |
| 6 | One night , waiting in her car outside a pub to which she had followed him , she suddenly found herself crying for the first time . |
| 7 | Two nights later , Derek was having a drink in the same hotel when the same person approached him accompanied by a second man who gave his name as Alexander Atkins . |
| 8 | Moving the light round the half-circle , he let it rest on the third stone from the mouth of the chamber on the right hand side — the one which had been so prominent in his ‘ photograph ’ . |
| 9 | And then , instead of hiding until the passage was clear , fitzAlan had given her a shove and told her to wait in the last cubicle . |
| 10 | I told myself going to the 18th today that if I could birdie it I could win the tournament . ’ |
| 11 | Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) . |
| 12 | We made one change for the second week of interviewing . |
| 13 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
| 14 | So it still was n't gon na meet the actual need that prompted them to occur in the first place . |
| 15 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 16 | Instead she made him stop in the next street ; she did n't want Uncle Vernon storming up the basement steps and putting his oar in . |
| 17 | Time magazine still regarded him as a bit of an upstart , stating that his attempts at humour made him look like a third Smothers Brothers , and his laconic manner appeared to be a handy substitute for acting . |
| 18 | The Pumas path to the final saw them account for the second Hallamshire squad represented at the weekend , thus ending any aspirations of Yorkshire success . |
| 19 | Jarvis saw them get into the next car and on an impulse he jumped up and followed them . |
| 20 | The only thing that kept me going on the last lap of the journey was the rhythm of my steps . |
| 21 | I think so , you know , and the lads have just said that , and then we went I think after the first goal , twenty odd minutes , it looked as though three one it was going to end up did n't it . |
| 22 | Then she came to London and I saw her sitting in the twelfth or thirteenth row of the Royal Festival Hall . |
| 23 | I just thought it followed on the next page there |
| 24 | Even with such insight it has to be said : we go to the exotic other to lose everything , including ourselves — everything that is but the privilege which enabled us to go in the first place . |
| 25 | ‘ When we finally got there , tired and bedraggled , the custodian sent us packing on the next ferry because we did n't have the 2/6 entry fee ! ’ |
| 26 | This is what one would expect in a process that feeds back positively on itself , further promoting the conditions that got it going in the first place . |
| 27 | ‘ How did you answer about the last — about presenting me to him ? ’ |
| 28 | Did you come to the last history meeting |
| 29 | Now what did we say about the next lesson ? |
| 30 | Did there emerge in the twentieth century a distinctive network of Asian capital , embracing Chinese , Indian and Japanese capitalists , distinct from the European network which had dominated South East Asia from the middle of the nineteenth century ? |