Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previously they had lacked an identity , but the training period had welded them together into a cohesive fighting force with an intense pride in themselves and their unit . |
| 2 | He 's painted them continually for the last 6 years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | She flushed , as if he had caught her out in a social solecism . |
| 7 | He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For instance , Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she does n't know . |
| 10 | Remarkably it 's Derry fourth successive appearance in the final — they 've won it twice in the last three years . |
| 11 | At the end of the bed was a small card-table which Changez bought for her as a wedding present ; I 'd carried it back from a local junk shop . |
| 12 | I thought I 'd picked it up off a clean pile , but I was mistaken . |
| 13 | Thirty had been a party for fifty , and now had honed it down to a fabulous four . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | She would have written me off as a time-wasting nut . |
| 16 | He had always seen them somewhere in the medical field as well as on a rugby pitch . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | Now a widow , Mabel has made her home in the compact whitewashed building , tucked in one of Whitby 's historic yards . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had written her off as a useless , lying bimbo . |
| 21 | His climbing achievements are many , but it is his attempts on Everest which have lodged him firmly in the public consciousness . |
| 22 | He had seen him only in the dense fog . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Just bottled it up with the other terrible things — blocked it out of my life and my mind . |
| 25 | It is saying , and I think everyone agrees , do n't abolish this until you 've thought it through and either provided an alternative or done it again in a different way . ’ |
| 26 | Have you written it totally from a Jewish perspective or are you aiming at a wider cross-section of the population ? |
| 27 | When he had met Ivy at Crepi 's dinner party her appearance had struck him as so wilfully bizarre that he had written it off as a freak effect , as though all her luggage had been lost and she 'd had to raid the oddments put aside for collection by the missionary brothers . |
| 28 | In most encounters with discourse , especially written discourse , we are in some way prepared for what is coming , if only because we ourselves have sought it out with a clear purpose ( Widdowson 1983 ) . |
| 29 | You could have warmed it up with a hot water bottle or a heat pad do n't leave it there with the baby in it , but you can certainly warm the bed first , you can warm the baby 's clothes , keep them in the airing cupboard , or lots of houses around here have Agas do n't they ? |
| 30 | Once , that is , he had seen it again after a four-year absence . |