Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Griffiths , of Thurlby Road , Redcar , who had been staying in Kentish Town , admitted criminally damaging the telephone booth . |
| 2 | Therefore , the RAF applied successfully to join the PLANIT Club . |
| 3 | He and a motor trader got together to deceive the finance company . |
| 4 | With SARFU unification accomplished in South Africa , French moved swiftly to secure a Wallaby tour to South Africa for this year . |
| 5 | Montgomery moved aside to reveal the bronze knight . |
| 6 | ‘ So , ’ Charlie was saying as he moved ahead to open the cab door for her , but then he stumbled slightly and muttered a curse . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I used ter wear a cotton nightdress when that Joe Maitland lodged wiv me , ’ she said smiling . |
| 8 | ‘ Next time I ask we 'd better drop the wedding dress , I think , ’ he said . |
| 9 | And — and — you 'd better lock the bedroom door tonight ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd better do a blood glucose straight away , ’ she said as soon as she was lying in bed , with the adjustable part tilted to a gentle angle . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd better get the glucose testing kit , ’ she mumbled as she edged towards the French window that led into the breakfast-room and then along a passage to the suite of rooms used by Faye and Bill . |
| 12 | Er but you 'd better let the panel secretary have it . |
| 13 | ‘ Anyone would think you 'd just received a death sentence . |
| 14 | He 'd just attended a pottery class at the Guild Hall in Gloucester and as usual , went to get the bus home . |
| 15 | She had a seriously ill patient to contend with and she 'd just had a telephone message to say that Brückner 's wife wanted to come up and visit him . |
| 16 | And you 'd just had a plastic cold just the favourite because for our Martine and pull her along in it . |
| 17 | When he came out of hospital they fixed him up with a job in a parachute factory , but he 'd just finished the training period when the war ended , and they did n't think they 'd need so many parachutes for the next one . |
| 18 | It 's just slightly off er , the track at the moment , if you were writing a living assurance plan for someone , and they 'd already got a Covermaster plan , |
| 19 | ‘ You 'd best see the College Secretary , sir . |
| 20 | While Harrison prepared yesterday to play a benefit concert at the Royal Albert Hall for the Natural Law Party , 51-year-old Starr said he was playing a series of dates in Europe in July for rather different reasons . |
| 21 | Most days I 'd go without food till I came home to cook the evening meal . |
| 22 | I do n't think he 'd ever seen a woman shop that fast ! ’ |
| 23 | He could have become an Olympic long-jump champion , as he 'd once broken the world record . |
| 24 | He 'd also prepared a goat casserole with spinach . |
| 25 | I 'd also seen a probation person . |
| 26 | To ask ‘ Should Ollie go to Jail ? ’ seemed automatically to suggest the answer no : soap-opera heroes , diminutives , household names could no more be put behind bars than Ronnie could . |
| 27 | He 'd even enhanced the swashbuckler image with a slim molecublade sword — gold , of course — at his hip . |
| 28 | He 'd even got the gestation period wrong , but given the rest of it this was a minor consideration . |
| 29 | Whatever their regrets at the time , however , the Americans had certainly lost them by the early 1950s as they came increasingly to value the sterling area as a buffer for the dollar . |
| 30 | He proceeded , unchallenged , to the shuttle docks where he 'd previously concealed the identity backup so that he could pass himself off as a human shuttle-worker . |