Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er very often Australian Aboriginal societies you meet men the corroborees at these ritual gatherings and if you 're one of the club , then in the ritual they 'll tell you , they 'll say hey , you know , you know you know you say where did you get all these kangaroos you know oh we got them over at the so and so ranges or down at the so and so water hole that 's where they all are this week , and this is very important information for man . |
| 2 | Rincewind looked around wildly , and then with wild improvisation drew himself up into a wizardly pose . |
| 3 | .0 A SECOND successive goalless draw saw England through to the World Cup finals here yesterday , when Poland practically burned themselves out in an often scintillating hour and yet fanned an ember in the last minute when Ryszard Tarasiewicz 's shot struck Peter Shilton 's crossbar . |
| 4 | Jon Gittens ' over-hit back pass was dipping under the bar until quick-thinking Pears turned it over with a neatly executed back header . |
| 5 | Richard Cohen , who commissioned the book , said : ‘ I was very glad the judge threw it out at the very first stage . |
| 6 | Feeling rather conspicuous in her towel and bikini , she followed him up to the palatially decorated VIP suite , and into the bathroom — trying not to notice the bedroom they passed through on the way . |
| 7 | Leonora felt very subdued as she followed him down to the relatively peaceful little beach of Lee Haven , where years before Joshua Probert had built a safe anchorage for his boats . |
| 8 | So I just rang him up with a very informal ‘ Hi , David ! ’ instead of a more deferential ‘ Excuse me , Doctor Delvin ’ . |
| 9 | Work completed , Donald John chauffeured me off to the most concerning and uncertain part of this Western Isles sojourn , the 45 minute ferry boat crossing to South Uist . |
| 10 | So Emma sent it over to Pook 's Common and Harriet sent it back with a very nice inscription and a signed photo of herself on her horse . |
| 11 | So they really brought it down to a very fine art now . |
| 12 | It seems she dressed herself up in the most provocative way possible when she got into this state and behaved like a caricature of the rich foreigner . |
| 13 | A few hundred yards along the road , however , and the walking pace jolted him back to a more careful reckoning of the conversation . |
| 14 | But for me it was Couples 's play of the long 15th that marked him down as a most worthy champion . |
| 15 | I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home … |
| 16 | My grandfather , leading skipper James Veness , led us out of the then quite good harbour at Hastings , East Sussex in his fine lugger Jim and Eliza . |
| 17 | A full and very black moustache covered his upper lip and during conversation he frequently smoothed it down in a rather absent-minded fashion with the forefinger of his right hand . |