Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We half expected them to come back a few days later , but they have never returned to the barn we prepared so painstakingly for them , although they are still sometimes seen in the vicinity . |
| 2 | And on this morning , of all mornings , James phoned at the crack of dawn and asked me to preside over a ridiculous Press party . |
| 3 | times of I mean , I actually think it 's a an awful lot of ask of a friendship , or of a family situation and also , indeed , if you I mean I think sometimes they can be very supportive but th the true understanding may not be there and erm I think that 's what led me to start up a self- help group in Edinburgh erm which is , has been erm running for the last two years now . |
| 4 | Mum got me to reach down a tall vase from the mantelshelf . |
| 5 | It very nearly made me give up the entire project . |
| 6 | Hearing of this preliminary training for the Parachute Regiment at Hardwick made me think up an indelicate version of the famous old rhyme about that prodigy house , ‘ Hardwick Hall , more glass than wall ’ : ‘ Hardwick Hall , sore a — e when fall ’ . |
| 7 | My detector helped me to cream off the best of the finds , but I hope that fact will not deter you from carrying out your own investigations along the 499 remaining routes , if you can obtain a copy of the book . |
| 8 | When one cooled she picked up the other and spat to test it . |
| 9 | The tide had risen a foot above the usual high water mark , and when they came to cut him free in the morning , they found him hanging on the outer wall — drowned . |
| 10 | And she let it force out the delighted cry ‘ Daniel ! ’ and make her hug him and kiss him — even while the darkness and the ice returned within . |
| 11 | How he used it opened up a new realm for investigation . |
| 12 | Its dominance helped us to understand where the new racism began in Powell 's bloody nightmare of the aged white woman pursued through the streets by black children . |
| 13 | Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview . |
| 14 | So I opened this one with practised diffidence … and , if it brought neither emotional nor financial reward , it caused me to dash off an angry — ‘ Disgusted , Centre for Policy on Ageing ’ — letter within the hour . |
| 15 | When she saw a test of it she was extremely pleased and told him to run off a few hundred yards . |
| 16 | To the very last he consulted his own common sense rather than the orders of his doctors whom he detested because they advised him to give up the roast meats that he loved . |
| 17 | It was my good fortune to see a lot of Emily Carr and to be counted as a friend , for she claimed she had only a few . |
| 18 | As it happened he pulled up a shattered Kersil seven from home . |
| 19 | Although they discovered they had hardly a single taste in common , he was nonetheless a witty and amusing host and she found herself laughing in a way she had not done for a considerable time . |
| 20 | They thrust him stumbling up a winding stairway cut in the rock , and along another passage into a large , smoky room , blackened and bare but for certain engines and implements that stood against the walls , and a low brazier in the centre . |
| 21 | Jazzbeaux heard they did much the same thing in Jap corp boardrooms . |
| 22 | She wanted to be held by him , and as the sad , poignant music began it set up a yearning inside of her that she did n't know how to dispel . |
| 23 | Another alleged he carried out an illegal abortion at her home . |
| 24 | Secondly , the white paper and the working documents that supplemented it give only the barest outline of the market framework and leave several key issues unresolved . |
| 25 | In the weeks that followed he built up a regular round of customers and boasted that it was better than going to work , especially on cold winter mornings . |
| 26 | He watched me pull down the Jolly Roger and throw it overboard , then he said , ‘ I expect you 'll want to go ashore now . |
| 27 | That this intuition can be trained and sharpened I have not the slightest doubt , and I further believe that this is most likely to occur when one looks upon natural phenomena with reverence and humility . |
| 28 | This was the business end of her trip but before she started she wandered along a crowded beach , taking photographs of the sands , waterskiers and windsurfers , the tree-lined promenade and the backdrop of mountains beyond . |
| 29 | Carrie watched him go up the steep main street . |
| 30 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |