Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was still unthinkable to see him without his sketchbook and pencil , but of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings he made , he gave away many or sold them for a few francs . |
| 2 | Then the door of the Earl 's hall slowly yielded , and his father carried him in and laid him on the same bales . |
| 3 | I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time . |
| 4 | An old worker , after giving the machine a jaundiced look , turned the handle and tried it with a few roots . |
| 5 | They were watching her intently , with a look that disconcerted her and excited her at the same time . |
| 6 | Kohl described the military regime of former president Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte as a " dictatorship " and compared it to the former East German regime headed by Erich Honecker ( whose request for political asylum in Chile had recently been rejected ) . |
| 7 | His writing , prose and poetry demanded rigorous attention , and received it with the same daily routine that he had established earlier : three pages a day , writing and rewriting , creative and self-critical . |
| 8 | Despite this , at lunchtime Kathleen presented me with four hours ' pay and pressed me for a few more details to help her with her enquiries . |
| 9 | Then I met up with Alan and , and he read though it and challenged me on a few things and we changed one or two bits , but I 've got my sort of target set out . |
| 10 | The regime thus charged him with damage of government property and jailed him for a few months until he was released under a general amnesty . |
| 11 | Everything seemed to be changing , and this excited and worried her at the same time : she thought about it so much that her face had a permanently screwed up , wondering look . |
| 12 | She held my hand steady to bring the cigarette to the flame and kept it for a few seconds longer than she had to . |
| 13 | But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night . |
| 14 | He raised his sword and answered them with the same word . |
| 15 | Also a photo of all the officers of Walsall that I saw in a second hand shop and I went and bought it for a few pence . |
| 16 | Charles was about the same age as Richie and had something of the same military bearing . |
| 17 | On Dec. 4 Kaunda dismissed his Defence Minister , Lt. Gen. Hannaniah Lungu and replaced him with the former Deputy Defence Minister , Dodson Siatalimi . |
| 18 | Mildred hopped next to him and patted him with a half visible arm . |
| 19 | Lisa struck a pose of melodramatic fervour and held it for a few seconds before slumping back in her seat . |
| 20 | The head of South Africa 's CITES delegation , Piet Mulder , agreed that there was evidence of SADF involvement in ivory smuggling , but blamed it on a few corrupt elements . |
| 21 | Graziano , 68 , won the world title in 1947 with a sixth-round knock-out of Tony Zale but lost it to the same fighter less than a year later . |