Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got right into it the first couple of series . |
| 2 | Richie caught up with them the next morning . |
| 3 | The faster she got away from him the better , for her sanity if nothing else . |
| 4 | Now when it came down to it the national government essen sorry the Supreme Court essentially said if the national government wishes to create a national bank in pursuance of legitimate aims of the constitution then it should have the discretion to do so and it should n't be interfered with by a state government . |
| 5 | Interesting Pauline at work , she 's ever so hurt , could n't get over it , she came up to me the other day she said , hello , how long has it been we have n't seen one another for two months . |
| 6 | fax numbers and things put on but that alright let's give she came back to me the other day and said I can not get this fax through and had actually typed down the wrong fax number |
| 7 | She had reasoned that as she had already mounted the horse and walked around on it the previous day , that this time it would be easy . |
| 8 | The reviewer summed up : ‘ For those who will not hear a word spoken against Churchill in 1940 this will be an infuriating book , as the watch the sharp , black-white chiaroscuro of Chamberlain v Churchill watered down to what the latter would call ‘ a sludgy amalgam ’ . |
| 9 | She knew how to win that competition , too : when he reached through to her the fourth or fifth time , she did what she had often dreamt of doing before : kneeling up against the wall , she guided his hand and put it to her breast . |
| 10 | This incident brought home to him the great contrast between his father 's uprightness and the godlessness of those who sneered at him . |
| 11 | The War itself , in which he served , brought home to him the ruthless destructiveness of man as weapon or mere machine . |
| 12 | The War itself , in which he served , brought home to him the ruthless destructiveness of man as weapon or mere machine . |
| 13 | And yesterday their lawyer told the Old Bailey : ‘ It brought home to them the serious nature of what they had done . ’ |
| 14 | Before that girl took up with you the most she ever did in her life was get dressed up for church . |
| 15 | He saw ahead of him the bowed back of Byrkin , hunched head in hands with an empty bowl in front of him on the table . |
| 16 | ‘ Apart from your flashing eyes and passionate temper , ’ he did n't hesitate to remind her , ‘ you came over anything but frigid when you snuggled up to me the other evening ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ That baby there kicked out at me the other day . |
| 18 | She was here on a mission , and the sooner she set out on it the better ! |
| 19 | Mary Knelle pointed out to me the green ridges on almost perpendicular fields that showed where potatoes had been grown before 1847 . |