Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 2 | The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |
| 3 | The group did not exercise its rights but sold them to a third party for £200,000 . |
| 4 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |
| 5 | What cases like these show is not just that reform measures are often ineffectual , it is that — as with word meanings — their reception and transmission can not be controlled by the people , in this case the feminists , who proposed them in the first place . |
| 6 | Wolves overtook them in the first division table during the week . |
| 7 | They helped me over the next road , me nearly tripping as I crossed the far kerb . |
| 8 | Asked what he would feel like if , on Sunday night , he found himself on the 18th tee tied for the lead , he replied that it could only be a ‘ shattering experience ’ . |
| 9 | The accent then moved itself onto the first syllable ( ‘ ga rrage ’ ) , and now the pronunciation is sometimes changed to ‘ garridge ’ . |
| 10 | She was about to say so , in no uncertain terms , but stopped herself at the last moment . |
| 11 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 12 | I phoned her on the fourth night to say goodnight to her that was all . |
| 13 | Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt . |
| 14 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 15 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 16 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 17 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 18 | He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr . |
| 19 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
| 20 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
| 21 | Mangen and Castel relate an appalling tale of how the circumstances in which the French asylums found themselves in the Second World War prompted experiment with alternatives . |
| 22 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 23 | Fazisi is more complicated , almost the entire first half of the book is about the campaign , how it originated , how sponsors were found ( Pepsi sponsored them and then dropped them on the first day of the race ) . |
| 24 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time . |
| 26 | As mentioned earlier , it is possible to treat certain phobias ( although not all ) by hypnosis without ever having to discover what caused them in the first place , and for some patients this is all they require . |
| 27 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 28 | They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 29 | This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 30 | Clearly Graf was not amused by the experience as she quickly booked herself on the next flight home leaving her team-mates behind without telling them . |