Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] on [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I panted in the thin air , a herdboy passed me on the broken steps which zigzagged up the mountainside , joining the smooth terraces with their retaining walls of stone . |
| 2 | My friend 's friend advised us on the best solicitors for a rape case , but warned that the final bill might be enough to buy a flat in Mayfair . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He picked her legs up one by one , and placed them on the two benches . |
| 5 | Then the door of the Earl 's hall slowly yielded , and his father carried him in and laid him on the same bales . |
| 6 | His natural caution kept him on the political sidelines , although he was well placed to know what was going on at the highest level , as the ‘ Historia Roffensis ’ , written by a clerk in his entourage , demonstrates . |
| 7 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 8 | Then I got a hand bowl full of fresh sawdust from a sack in the little warehouse and sprinkled it on the clean boards . |