Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet she could n't lose herself in the story ; the movements of Luke 's hand as he made lightning sketches , the lazy , sinuous stretching of his legs as he shifted his position impinged upon her concentration , and she found herself reading the same page over and over . |
| 2 | In spite of Paxford 's strong left-wing views , Minto idolized him and allowed him to occupy the same sort of position in her household as John Brown had occupied at the court of Queen Victoria . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought it was food poisoning because I had prepared fish which I had not cooked properly and when the doctor arrived he thought the same way . |
| 4 | Philip at first took no notice of what he said ; but when he heard him repeat the same thing several times , and saw he was greatly upset by the horse being sent away , eventually replied : ‘ Are you criticising those who are older than yourself , as if you knew more , and were better able to manage him than they ? ’ |
| 5 | By the time the train reached Ealing Broadway they had been in and out of every car and as the train returned they followed the same routine . |
| 6 | The EC decided she had the same right to benefits as a man or a single woman . |
| 7 | I thought you wanted the same approach . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose we should be flattered that Dinamo Tbilisi felt they needed a little help to get past us . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose we should be flattered that Dinamo Tbilisi felt they needed a little help to get past us . |
| 10 | And just as surely she knew he wanted the same thing . |
| 11 | Why did I choose the same piece , The Education of Children ? |
| 12 | And never again did she make the same mistake . |
| 13 | Culley and Jackson did n't know one another , did they know the same thing . |
| 14 | It was apparent to Miss Wharton , on that first day , that he had never been inside a church before , but neither then nor on any subsequent visit did he evince the least curiosity about its purpose . |
| 15 | ‘ And did he use the same formula in his intimate relationships ? ’ |
| 16 | What I have said about Nottingham I would also have said about East Sussex had I had the same information . |
| 17 | Had I taken the latter course , the result might have been embarrassment rather than accident . |
| 18 | He had told Amy none of this but would have happily confided had she shown the least interest . |
| 19 | It is an ‘ Asian path ’ , but of course it would lie along the other half of the great circle had we used the same model for a R N transition , giving an ‘ Americas path ’ . |
| 20 | Only 25% of Italians , for example , believed that they could influence national and local government , and 47% said they had no such influence . |
| 21 | Had he had the same nightmare at any other time , it might have had no particular meaning to him at all . |
| 22 | He said he had the same ability as Wino but pointed out that he ( Gray ) was injured at 16 and never fully recovered , so his potential would have been even greater than it turned out . |
| 23 | and she said David said he saw a few snow flakes . |
| 24 | Her last evening — last Saturday — I suggested she asked a few hospital colleagues in for pasta , which she did . |