Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought they 'd hidden me away in a cupboard . |
| 2 | The teacher claimed that the boy put the forceps in his hand , but the pupil said Mr Harrison had picked them up from a desk . |
| 3 | I had this idea they had booked me in for a Caesarean because I 'm small , but had n't told me . |
| 4 | She took in breath to scream , but it had caught her up like a shred of paper . |
| 5 | Ianthe realised from his triumphant expression that he had caught her out in a mistake and waited with resignation to hear what it was . |
| 6 | What 's more , who 'd have believed he 'd picked her up in a wine bar ? |
| 7 | Armed with this information , they would n't have picked him out on an identity parade . |
| 8 | In his summing-up , Mr Justice Leonard said the case against Kearney hinged on his identification by Mr Lewin , who had picked him out at an identity parade . |
| 9 | My children have caught him lovingly in a nickname . |
| 10 | I think we must have both picked it up during a visit to some relatives in Piercebridge . |
| 11 | I should have enjoyed it just as well if I 'd picked it up in a bookshop , by an unknown author . |
| 12 | Whoever had brought her here must have known the place ; you could n't have picked it out in a hurry . |
| 13 | I got involved with one of the servants I told you about , that had pawed me about in a cupboard . |
| 14 | Slowly , trying to ration the pain into manageable portions , I slid my hand out again , and then after a while , hardly believing it , I bent my arm and felt round my back and came to the rod there also , and faced the grim certainty that someone had shot me not with a bullet but an arrow . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought you might have written me off as a crackpot after my performance this morning . ’ |
| 16 | So you 've bribed them along with a promise of sweets |
| 17 | He promised to adopt the same approach to councillorship ‘ which has seen me through as a councillor for 20 years with 11 of these as county councillor . ’ |
| 18 | He 's done me up like a kipper and I fucking fell for it . |
| 19 | Have n't seen you around for a while . ’ |
| 20 | I have n't seen you around for a couple of days . " |
| 21 | In that case the defendant had made her home with a tenant of a private sector house for three years and continued to make her home with the tenant when he was granted a secure tenancy of a council house . |
| 22 | It might be interesting ; he was obviously intelligent and well-educated , and the fact that both Dora and Iris had written him off as a fortune-hunter caused her no particular misgivings . |
| 23 | STEVE Cram launches his new 5,000 metres career on the roads of Aberdeen in the mood to confound the critics who have written him off as a has-been . |
| 24 | Yanto could not recollect ever having seen him out of a boiler suit . |
| 25 | Contemporary feminist writers have seen her rather as a demonstration of the extreme body hatred and guilt that a patriarchal religion lays upon women . |
| 26 | Then he heard Boy say ‘ Yes , ’ and then he heard the TV change ; Boy had got up and turned it over to a boxing match , which was something Boy never usually watched . |
| 27 | But they 've cut them well they done it again about a month ago no one could survive They 'll only do it to get the get the key |
| 28 | A coastguard hero called Ralph Byrd had slugged and shot it out with a gang of Bela Lugosi 's thugs , and escaped from certain death by buzzsaw . |
| 29 | Mr MacConachie took over Sherwoods 12 years ago and has built it up from a 34-man , £25m. business , to one which now employs 125 . |
| 30 | It is in the same field as the star 41 Capricorni ( 5.5 ) and is close to the limit of visibility with binoculars ; I have never seen it clearly without a telescope . |