Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took his vorpal sword in hand : Longtime the manxome foe he sought So rested he by the Tumtum tree , And stood awhile in thought . |
| 2 | Alex Household drew aside to let him into the flat . |
| 3 | Once their canvasses showed majority support for the proposal , they moved quickly to bring it to a vote , thereby avoiding the public debate which had accompanied past efforts at prohibiting honoraria . |
| 4 | She came down to Riverside with me , watched as we rehearsed then followed me into the loo and gave me a blow job — something I just was n't used to as a 17-year-old grammar school boy still living at home with his mum and dad . |
| 5 | He returned her look with a glance so suddenly intent that she felt a flash of absurd panic , and rose hurriedly to busy herself with the teapot . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd better reimburse you for the sweets ’ Vernon insisted , in a tight unfriendly voice . |
| 7 | You 'd better tell me about the other night . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'd better drop me at the hospital . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd better apprise you of the situation to date . |
| 10 | I said if I 've got to do a dozen sausage rolls for one I 'd better do them for the others . |
| 11 | We 'd better measure it on the other wall , had n't we ? |
| 12 | Or probably , since you ca n't trust anybody any more , you 'd better put it through the letter box . ’ |
| 13 | But then you thought you 'd better put it in the fridge ? |
| 14 | ‘ Faye needs someone as soon as possible now , so perhaps I 'd better square it with the hospital for you . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'd better take me to the station , then . |
| 16 | You 'd better get yourself on a plane tomorrow morning and get it … ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You 'd better get her to the hospital , ’ said Comfort . |
| 18 | I suppose we 'd better get you into the house . ’ |
| 19 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |
| 20 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished . |
| 22 | you 'd merely likened it to the bin-skips |
| 23 | We 'd just settled him along the back seat when I realised that he would need some money . |
| 24 | I assumed he 'd just picked you for the resemblance . ’ |
| 25 | I think the other thing also , I found it a disadvantage actually having it on the table , I think if I 'd just left it on the like that |
| 26 | At least he was spared the knowledge that he 'd given the doge 's ring to a heartless little bitch who 'd just taken him for a ride . ’ |
| 27 | but he 'd just told me about the housing with the car and everything . |
| 28 | He 'd already stabbed me in the heart several times before that with other ladies , but at least this time , there was a lady that I liked immensely . |
| 29 | My grandmother is a keen birdwatcher and she 'd already introduced me to a lot of the different birds that visited her bird-table , telling me what they ate and showing me their nests and explaining how they were made and what they were made of . |
| 30 | Which meant we 'd always got somebody in the house , sort of baby-sitting really . |