Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That one will be completed I imagine within the next couple of weeks . |
| 2 | I thought you were an experienced professional or I 'd never have let you go in the first place ! |
| 3 | Erm and he is definitely booked you know for the high court and all of that , he 's |
| 4 | Instead she 'd accepted his suggestion to show her more of the island of Zealand , and had been enchanted by everything , painfully aware that the spell which had entrapped her emanated from the powerful persona of the man beside her as much as the natural beauty of the surrounding countryside . |
| 5 | Home po 2 monitoring was undertaken in 134 patients ; in the 120 patients who have discontinued it lasted for a median duration of 5.5 months ( range 0.3–17.5 ) . |
| 6 | The British theatrical Establishment who thought he aspired to be their new idol would be puzzled over ‘ All I wanted to do was to live ’ — but they would have let it pass as a Welsh eccentricity ; ‘ to act at the Old Vic ’ would have drawn beams of approval . |
| 7 | Indicating the calf , he said , ‘ We 're hoping to keep this one for breeding , so we 've let it suckle for the normal period . |
| 8 | He 's seen me talking to the great Walter Schellenberg . |
| 9 | This is the best I 've seen them play for a long time Leicester |
| 10 | and er , she said my eyes really sparkled she said first time I 've seen them sparkle for a long while so I was right chuffed about that . |
| 11 | Your 29 years at home have probably seen you develop into a good conversationalist , able to strike up a relationship quickly ( which could help in selling or market research interviewing ) , or a natural organiser ( valuable in a hospital appointments department , booking car hire or reserving hotel rooms ) . |
| 12 | It had made her feel like a dutiful grown-up daughter , visiting a hypochondriac distant relative once a week . |
| 13 | She reminded me that I was a married man — forbade me to approach her or speak to her again in that way , but at the same time I knew I had made her think about the old days — the attraction we 'd had for each other which she could not deny . |
| 14 | But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged . |
| 15 | Where such detailed studies have been made they tend towards the typological and shy away from the technological aspects . |
| 16 | The Russians have said they believe in a negotiated settlement to the civil war , but they are continuing to supply arms to President Mengistu , apparently to allow him to negotiate from a position of strength . |
| 17 | In charge on a caretaker basis since the October sacking of John Beck , Johnson had hoped his side 's Coca-Cola Cup defeat of Premier League Oldham on Tuesday would have seen him appointed on a permanent basis . |
| 18 | Harry signed for Palace after Manager Edmund Goodman had seen him play for the amateur side , Kingstonian , in a Surrey Charity Shield Final at The Nest early in the summer of 1921 , when Palace had just won promotion to Division 2 . |
| 19 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 20 | he wo n't fly singles over water , at night , or over dubious terrain , though I have seen him fly over the odd potato field ! |
| 21 | She denied it but did not tell him she had seen him fighting with the pedlar or that the man had chased her and Oliver in Nice . |
| 22 | Clavell says that King Rat had freed him to write about the Far East . |
| 23 | Considering the clean wake and the almost dinghy-like responsiveness of the yacht , we were convinced that a reach in a slightly stiffer breeze would have seen her sliding into an easy surf . |
| 24 | He had seen her sitting at the high table among the other ladies of noble birth who served the Empress . |
| 25 | MacIver had said he knew of a double-deck trailer which went every week from Cumbernauld to Stornoway , via Inverness , carrying £300,000-£600,000 worth of spirits , groceries and tobacco . |
| 26 | You know : the things youngsters stick on their cars to make 'em look like racers — but I 've never seen it done to a clapped-out old van before . ’ |
| 27 | Anyone passing Belfast 's Europa Hotel on Monday could well have seen it moving to a funky beat — not because of high winds or earthquake , but the first heat of the Coca Cola ‘ 93 Disco Dancing Championships , which are co-sponsored by ‘ Sunday Life ’ . |
| 28 | A justification for talk of abstract ideas is that it provides an explanation of how our thought and knowledge can be general ; ‘ how we can know any proposition to be true of all particular triangles , except we have first seen it demonstrated of the abstract idea of a triangle . ’ |
| 29 | Then he had watched them walk to the main room with their arms around each other and kiss in the warm light before closing the door behind them . |
| 30 | Now Paul this is what I 've found out since you see , Paul erm said to them , Why suddenly this ? and he says , Oh we 've actually had them printed for the last two years but we 've never had the time to give them out . |