Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so she behind all the way but caught up with her a few metres |
| 2 | Richie caught up with them the next morning . |
| 3 | Now when it came down to it the national government essen sorry the Supreme Court essentially said if the national government wishes to create a national bank in pursuance of legitimate aims of the constitution then it should have the discretion to do so and it should n't be interfered with by a state government . |
| 4 | He came up to me a few moments ago and said ‘ Do you remember me ? ’ |
| 5 | Interesting Pauline at work , she 's ever so hurt , could n't get over it , she came up to me the other day she said , hello , how long has it been we have n't seen one another for two months . |
| 6 | And from this time I knew I had to give up so many things — my sailing and so on — but the music came back to me a hundred times better . |
| 7 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 8 | fax numbers and things put on but that alright let's give she came back to me the other day and said I can not get this fax through and had actually typed down the wrong fax number |
| 9 | She had reasoned that as she had already mounted the horse and walked around on it the previous day , that this time it would be easy . |
| 10 | I just barged up to him a few times during the evening and in the end he said , ‘ Alright then , let's hear you sing ’ and he was impressed . |
| 11 | Humphrey Lyttelton recounts : ‘ We brought along with us a strong contingent from Camberwell Art School , and John Minton , now recognised as a distinguished painter , was among the most formidable and dangerous of the first school of dancers . ’ |
| 12 | I looked in on you a short while ago and you were fast asleep . |
| 13 | She knew how to win that competition , too : when he reached through to her the fourth or fifth time , she did what she had often dreamt of doing before : kneeling up against the wall , she guided his hand and put it to her breast . |
| 14 | Before that girl took up with you the most she ever did in her life was get dressed up for church . |
| 15 | His hair , which he had cut himself in one of the gales of thrift that blew up in him every few weeks , kept getting into his eyes and caused him to see a charming rainbow when he stood under a street lamp to look up at Sam 's room — something he had done too often . |
| 16 | They produced a file which they said was his and took out of it an indistinct , green photograph of someone carrying a parcel . |
| 17 | " She gave up on me a long time ago , but she made sure that my two sons , Charles and Joseph , speak the language of her forebears , and that will stand us in good stead in your colony . " |
| 18 | ‘ Apart from your flashing eyes and passionate temper , ’ he did n't hesitate to remind her , ‘ you came over anything but frigid when you snuggled up to me the other evening ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ That baby there kicked out at me the other day . |
| 20 | She was here on a mission , and the sooner she set out on it the better ! |
| 21 | George patted Robert on the shoulder and pointed out to me a small white flag blowing stiffly outside to the right of the front windows . |
| 22 | Mary Knelle pointed out to me the green ridges on almost perpendicular fields that showed where potatoes had been grown before 1847 . |