Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Cottle obliged his impractical friends with his habitual amused indulgence , and having sent Coleridge ‘ all that he had required , and more ’ , rode down to Clevedon the following day to pay his respects in person .
2 Dr Curtis came in with Humber a few minutes later .
3 Kate 's family came over from Ireland a long time ago and their closest contact to the soil is the odd spot of weekend gardening , but Kate associates closely with the dispossessed peasantry of old Ireland , and anywhere else for that matter , and taters brings out the culchie in her .
4 Dalian , who has scored in 12 of the 22 Villa games he has played in this season , explained : ‘ When I came back from Spain a big adjustment had to be made .
5 Dalian , who has scored in 12 of the 22 Villa games he has played in this season , explained : ‘ When I came back from Spain a big adjustment had to be made .
6 So we were lucky and then we opened up on January the fourth nineteen fifty five .
7 And I joined up on March the fourth nineteen eighteen .
8 Laura was sent for , and arrived back in London the following afternoon .
9 We arrived back in Gravesend the next morning having consumed a lot of diesel and patience .
10 Big Jack walked out on Newcastle the next day .
11 As long as war went on in Europe the French would have to make it their main area of activity and could not concentrate on colonial or naval war .
12 AS the talking went on in America the Bosnian Serbs appeared to have gained a firmer hold on their territorial war gains today .
13 Mm , sorted out for April the fifteenth this erm Information Technology Course
14 Through the Double Cross Committee , usually known as the XX Committee , these turned spies sent back to Germany a steady stream of fictitious information garnished with sufficient truth to give it credibility , which the Germans apparently accepted without question .
15 They did n't even notice the smashed front lights and the vicious new welt on the Boomerang doorframe when I slinked back to Hire-A-Heap the following day .
16 It was the first news I had heard that Robin Summers , shot down over Brest a few weeks before , was alive .
17 He was due for release next year but ran off on May the 4th from a prisoners ' training camp at Simonds Yat on the Gloucestershire / Herefordshire Border .
18 Lucifer pointed out to Eve the forbidden apple on the flat tree painted on to the back panel of the cart .
19 He poured a measure into a shallow quaich , but took thought ; and held out to Lachlan the whole bottle .
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