Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls . |
| 2 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 3 | It was still unthinkable to see him without his sketchbook and pencil , but of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings he made , he gave away many or sold them for a few francs . |
| 4 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 5 | you probably got them from the same place . |
| 6 | First of all Gyggle tried me on the same sort of rudimentary exercises that I remembered performing as a child . |
| 7 | He withdrew all charges against them and immediately re-charged them with the same ones . |
| 8 | But Garvey , 40 , has brought a private prosecution against Carr , 33 , alleging Carr assaulted him in the same incident in Middlesbrough Town Hall in October . |
| 9 | I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time . |
| 10 | When the community care Support Force was inaugurated , many SSDs regarded it with the same amount of suspicion and distrust as a bird would a snake . |
| 11 | An old worker , after giving the machine a jaundiced look , turned the handle and tried it with a few roots . |
| 12 | But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four . |
| 13 | One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put . |
| 14 | Uncle Joe subjected me to the same torture and humiliation every time we were alone together — although , thankfully , he never actually went as far as raping me . |
| 15 | I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris . |
| 16 | ‘ I heard that , ’ she told him in the same language . |
| 17 | In the church Richard fell to prayer with such absorption that Lady Dalton forbore to disturb him when she entered , but her son recognised him as a former Oxford student . |
| 18 | I cried out in relief and happiness : I thought I recognised him as a former schoolmate , a boy with whom I used to exchange groans about the maths problems whose solutions so frequently eluded us . |
| 19 | AN ARMED robber ‘ executed ’ a security guard because he recognised him as a former schoolmate , a court was told yesterday . |
| 20 | They were watching her intently , with a look that disconcerted her and excited her at the same time . |
| 21 | Kohl described the military regime of former president Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte as a " dictatorship " and compared it to the former East German regime headed by Erich Honecker ( whose request for political asylum in Chile had recently been rejected ) . |
| 22 | I could get tired of even roulette if I always played it in the same place . ’ |
| 23 | One hour later we dissociated the nerves , cultured them for a few hours , and double-labelled them with an anti-BrdU antibody and an antibody that labels oligodendrocyte precursor cells . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , in cash , he paid me on the same day , insisted on doing so . |
| 25 | I handed it to a former flight engineer of 213 when I visited him in Toronto some years ago . |
| 26 | He paid it in the same spirit that he washed himself-obsessively . |
| 27 | Then I met up with Alan and , and he read though it and challenged me on a few things and we changed one or two bits , but I 've got my sort of target set out . |
| 28 | A Country Diary : OXFORDSHIRE : On the first morning of this month , whilst watching the usual passage of gulls to the local refuse-dump , I spotted a flock of waders , estimated at between 300 and 400 , much higher up and heading due south , and , a matter of seconds later , a similar party followed them on the same course , and I was able to identify them as Golden Plover . |
| 29 | I killed him for no more reason than I wanted to do it . |
| 30 | He addressed her in the same way as he had her mistress , with the deference due to age . |