Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's painted them continually for the last 6 years . |
| 2 | He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half . |
| 3 | Oxford United are facing their own big challenge … four defeats in a row has dropped them back into the bottom half of the table … last home win was this one against Millwall … tomorrow they should … they must dish out the same treatment to struggling Southend |
| 4 | And he 's he 's turned over this and just gon na slap one on me and I 've turned my head and gone like that and he 's fucking caught me right on the fucking lips ! |
| 5 | Dinah felt herself trembling ; this was the man who had libelled Paul and herself , had made their early years wretched , had hounded her out of the only world she knew . |
| 6 | For instance , Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she does n't know . |
| 7 | Remarkably it 's Derry fourth successive appearance in the final — they 've won it twice in the last three years . |
| 8 | I think we can all learn a thing or too from that oh er that sounded nice that that sounds even better , oh I 've cracked it right down the bloody middle |
| 9 | He had always seen them somewhere in the medical field as well as on a rugby pitch . |
| 10 | A few weeks earlier he had phoned me out of the blue — I think he was checking to see how many of his cronies were still alive ! |
| 11 | Now a widow , Mabel has made her home in the compact whitewashed building , tucked in one of Whitby 's historic yards . |
| 12 | Anyway , I had built her up at the front end so that she was standing with her fore feet on a half door and had given her a strong oily purgative . |
| 13 | His climbing achievements are many , but it is his attempts on Everest which have lodged him firmly in the public consciousness . |
| 14 | He had seen him only in the dense fog . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's absurd — I look on Margaret as my best friend , but I 've only seen her once in the last six months — I do feel guilty about it . ’ |
| 16 | Just bottled it up with the other terrible things — blocked it out of my life and my mind . |
| 17 | Only two of their candidates have even made it through to the second round . |
| 18 | finally only one of junior teams has made it through to the third round of the cup … |
| 19 | Mr McTavish forbore to mention that he had n't made it quite to the same standard as his host but was obviously pleased to be included in the generalization . |
| 20 | They 're sure to give the go-ahead , otherwise they would n't have chucked it out in the first place . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 've plunged you in at the deep end . |
| 22 | Perhaps they had even bought them together in the same store , on the same day . |
| 23 | And as I had told you before on the previous er chat we had , how my father took over er when when I was two years old we moved up . |
| 24 | The pub had drawn her out of the cold and fog into warmth . |
| 25 | because he lives a life where material luxury has bought him out of the social expectations imposed on less fortunate people . |
| 26 | He had taken her out one day , her and Mama , and when he had handed her out of the big Daimler , her papa 's pride , he had slipped a note into her hand , inviting her to meet him when his duties were over , and go out with him — perhaps for a ride on the Brooklyn Ferry . |
| 27 | If that had happened in my day , those players would have had him up against the nearest wall and sorted it out . |
| 28 | He referred to the policy of separate development as ‘ apart-hate ’ in his first few letters , until somebody must have clued him in on the correct spelling . |
| 29 | That much was real estate , available to anyone with the right money , although it did n't help to discover that Alison and her late husband , a philosophy don at Balliol , had bought it back in the early sixties for less than £2,000 . |
| 30 | Erm with a view to saying really , providing we 've got it in by the first of April next year |