Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made that up for the boys , but if you prefer … ’ neighed Mr Crumwallis , congratulating himself on insisting on something that at least looked a bit special . |
| 2 | He appeared to recognize Stephen as quickly as Stephen recognized him , but the dark wedge face registered this only in a tightening of the mouth and a jerk of the chin . |
| 3 | McLeish told Francesca to hang on while he got this down as a note , and stared at the result . |
| 4 | Like this is my opening routine , I got this out of a book actually , you come , okay ? |
| 5 | We went to , er , we felt that we needed , er , a U S director because much of our business is in the U S with wide marketing experience we went to , erm , headhunters er , in America who drew up er , a list of sixty people , culled from their own research erm we narrowed that down as an executive to twelve . |
| 6 | I found that out in the pleasure garden . |
| 7 | I drew this up as a sketch showing , in essence , a section of the city . |
| 8 | Arnold Bennett caught this splendidly in the story of Denry Machin , an ambitious and well-off young councillor , who brought back a local footballing hero to the town at his own expense . |
| 9 | The boatman inspected this critically for a moment , but then , unlike Owen , seemed satisfied . |
| 10 | At this point I decided to go for broke so I wound in the other corn rod and changed this over to a boilie . |
| 11 | There was a stack of timber being unloaded from the Dock and the wind threw that all over the place . |
| 12 | Although this is the first recorded instance of a private undertaker being used by the royal household it is possible that they had been previously involved in some small way in royal funerals , for it is doubtful that the College of Arms provided coffins and it would seem probable that they contracted this out to the trade , to people such as William Russell — indeed , could it have been Russell who provided the coffin for Queen Mary in late December 1694 ? |
| 13 | Fred Sedgwick , a teacher , captured this recently in an article describing a case conference he attended ( Guardian , 28 January 1989 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Dug these out of the wall . |
| 15 | I handed these in to the Midland Bank , Cockerton , Darlington . |
| 16 | There once was a bear , an ugly and deformed creature , who hit from the world and lived all alone in a wood . |
| 17 | I think they got all in including the settee I think . |
| 18 | Well er anyway as it , as it worked out , although I did a lot of s sloshing about , erm when I actually got to erm on to the four one four and I followed that through to the M one and straight up and I was running parallel with the M twenty five , virtually |
| 19 | When the two Highlanders stood , he sauntered up and touched each gently on the chest . |
| 20 | We observed this clearly in the Greater London and South-East England labour market for secretarial staff and in the South East England labour market for computer programmers and analysts . |
| 21 | Six months later , in September , I followed this up with a circular to health authorities requiring them to put their services out to tender . |
| 22 | Leslie Orgel ( Salk ) recalled that only two weeks after Watson and Crick 's first paper appeared , the entire biochemistry department at Oxford travelled to Cambridge to view the structure and followed this up with a telegram : CONGRATULATIONS ! ( signed ) GENE . |
| 23 | Clearing the gap in the reef , the patrol boat drove into a wave and leapt half out of the water like a giant grey killer whale . |
| 24 | Suddenly he shoved this aside with a groan , snatched up a clean sheet of paper , he wrote : |
| 25 | He carried a silver-topped malacca cane and he waved this vaguely in the direction of the strolling crowds all around them . |
| 26 | Picking it up , I rolled that up with the bundle too . |
| 27 | And I took that straight to the barracks , and they accepted it ! |
| 28 | Erm , Andrew , er , I , I find that earlier on the , the only life cover you 've really got is one that you took out a few years ago , a very small one , and you took that out for a set number of years . |
| 29 | And he brought this up about the units I had and he he rang me up on the Friday night is n't it ? |
| 30 | I took this down to the town hall the following day and then set myself to the most urgent task in hand : trying to find another job . |