Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bela Kádár , the Hungarian permanent representative to COMECON , said on Jan. 5 that in recent years the organization had " lost touch with the realities of international politics and economics " , and that for this reason it had been essential to wind it up . |
| 2 | The farmer sent him to keep a flock of larks off a field that had just been set with winter corn : ‘ It was late November or early December ; and when it got dark about half past four time I made my way back to the farm thinking my job was done . |
| 3 | Some of this fear he controlled , and had controlled for some time , by smoking the odd joint . |
| 4 | But the most surprising difference was that their axes of preferential response were clearly not lined up with the axes of the on-off directionally selective type , and when Clyde Oyster and I analysed this in more detail we found what is shown in Figure 5 . |
| 5 | Such as that holiday you took in Spain last summer and who paid . |
| 6 | Erm Harrogate er is a borough that 's enjoyed an enormous er growth in prosperity and economic activity during the erm exciting er yuppie years of Mrs Thatcher the mid eighties and erm er was indeed one of the I think one of the most wealthy boroughs , one of the highest economic activity rate levels , the Civic Society tell us in their papers it was paying the highest rates and all these sort of indicators , but with as so much of that period it turned out to be er a bubble and a chimera and er the borough has experienced some very severe erm er closures in recent years . |
| 7 | During much of that time she had been moving constantly , school friends , teachers and happy times discarded until she felt like a fugitive . |
| 8 | ‘ That you swear to tell me all about this woman you told Ma was the most wonderful girl in the world . ’ |
| 9 | And in all of that time we had Gullfoss to ourselves . |
| 10 | Mind , all the bed linen 's clean , and we do n't have no bugs or fleas , I would n't 'ave anything like that in any 'ouse I lived in . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ That we 'd had a short but intense affair , and when we 'd met again and realised we still felt the same about each other you 'd revealed how Thomas was mine . ’ |
| 12 | I was gon na say it 's ten pound a night each at that place we saw that was lovely were n't it ? |
| 13 | Kim had been on the Wiring Project for almost year now , though for most of that time he had been kept out of things by Spatz . |
| 14 | For most of that time he took drugs . |
| 15 | Most of that time he dived for red snapper along the edge of a break in the reef . |
| 16 | There were good lobster grounds just off shore , and most of that summer I kept a lobster creel set , occasionally moving it to fresh grounds . |
| 17 | For most of this game they looked more like men at the end of their tether than a team ready to make a final , confident push for the title . |