Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Only later , I told the now somewhat quivering Principal , only later , when Rosa had gone , did it come to mind that one or two of the other girls had made of me the same enquiry over the past twelve months .
2 Ronnie had written to me a few months before , saying that she had hesitated to get in touch but wanted me to know how concerned she was about John .
3 He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire .
4 Instead , he had dropped her outside the Half Moon in Portesham , exchanged with her a few platitudes about the working week to come , then driven home to Radipole in time for tea with his mother .
5 A well-made pension plan inspired in him the same emotions as an estate-bottled single-vineyard wine of a good year , and about the same amount of waffle .
6 ‘ I 'd spoken to him a few times , ’ Avril recalls .
7 ‘ I 've spoken to him a few times and he 's the epitome of a true warrior .
8 The Aldershot method because er it it sort of explained to me the most effect way of getting across whatever you want to say so that made me a feel a bit happier about that .
9 The CBI , the British Institute of Management and the Institute of Personnel Management have all put to him the same point about single-union agreements .
10 Mr. Sumption , counsel for the third , fourth and fifth defendants , has renewed before us the same arguments as he addressed to Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V.-C .
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