Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is real wilderness — we met no-one else in a day 's walking . |
| 2 | The administrator 's greeting made everyone else in the room turn round to look . |
| 3 | The first one came after 27 minutes , when Neil Matthews beat everyone else to the ball . |
| 4 | The remainder , very carelessly and messily written , was supplied by an unidentified copyist , who contributed nothing else to the score ; and it lacks trumpet parts , though he left staves for them . |
| 5 | Kuijken ( ) , as ever , puts musical values first , and in this he reminds me very much of a firstgeneration ‘ authentic ’ recording made by the Collegium Aureum under Schmidt-Garden ( not yet available on CD ) , which similarly involved one textually in a way which few versions can match , even if one is left with the impression that many of the musical solutions may have registered almost as comfortably on modern instruments . |
| 6 | ‘ Your father thought he recognised someone here in the hotel . ’ |
| 7 | They went on playing traditional sevens and as they were not inconvenienced by their one weakness , which is their lack of appetite for scrummaging , they played everybody else off the colony by an even larger margin than usual . |
| 8 | I made one yesterday in a meat tin and so Lynn had a lump and I got a lump and you here . |
| 9 | In the form in which the proposals on community service appeared in the Bill they owed something also to the Government 's hope that the new measure would be seen as a credible alternative to custodial sentences , thus contributing towards the aim of bringing down the prison population . |
| 10 | I expected to see Dr Mortimer , as I knew nobody else in the village . |
| 11 | Once they took one away from the woodpile and hid it in the stable and the mother searched everywhere , growing more and more distressed . |
| 12 | And of course that was why Hardy had taken against him , why he had left him on the sidelines any time he picked a team for some action , why he had now given him a job that he knew anyone else in the unit would have balked at . |
| 13 | If she does have a lot to tell , she gave nothing away during the course of the murder and subsequent fraud trials . |
| 14 | ‘ It reminded one forcibly of a Buddha in a Ceylonese temple . |
| 15 | She put everything away in the kitchen cupboards , then went out to lock the car . |
| 16 | Did one yesterday for a man who was due to be executed today , erm , I do n't know whether he was or not , but he probably in a few days time . |
| 17 | Howard converted them with his own hands , as he did everything else on the property . |
| 18 | Because we did n't know where in the brain any changes might occur , or very much about chick brain anatomy ( nor , it should be said , did anyone else at the time ) , we divided the forebrain arbitrarily into two regions which we called simply ‘ roof ’ and ‘ base ’ . |
| 19 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 20 | If Irina had observed Jehana 's behaviour , then so had everyone else in the party . |
| 21 | He knocked on a door , said something quietly to the person who opened it , then walked upstairs . |
| 22 | And you had one close to the City Council , one is very close to the St Edward School one , was that for deliberate reasons . |
| 23 | Now I felt that I wanted nothing else in the world but to be allowed to read this dismal grammar all winter . |