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 | 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 | Remarkably it 's Derry fourth successive appearance in the final — they 've won it twice in the last three years . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | He had always seen them somewhere in the medical field as well as on a rugby pitch . |
| 8 | Now a widow , Mabel has made her home in the compact whitewashed building , tucked in one of Whitby 's historic yards . |
| 9 | His climbing achievements are many , but it is his attempts on Everest which have lodged him firmly in the public consciousness . |
| 10 | He had seen him only in the dense fog . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Have you written it totally from a Jewish perspective or are you aiming at a wider cross-section of the population ? |
| 14 | Once , that is , he had seen it again after a four-year absence . |
| 15 | SEARCHING for genuine bargains in the New Year Sales can be a struggle but TODAY has made it easier with a comprehensive guide to the best buys on the High Street . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Perhaps they had even bought them together in the same store , on the same day . |
| 18 | I am not talking primarily about myself , he wrote , for it will be obvious to anyone who reads these notes that you have used me simply as a stalking horse for some of your more outrageous views and . |
| 19 | He could have humiliated me totally with a one-night stand . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Her mother had once told her scornfully about a crazy book produced on the contemporary new wave of evolutionary theory : a book which abandoned Darwin and returned to his predecessor , Lamark . |
| 22 | She bound her arms from the shoulder to the elbow with thick cords … she rubbed herself with nettles … [ in her full length hair shirt ] she appeared more glorious in the eyes of God from her having armed it underneath with a great quantity of points of needles to increase her suffering by this ingenious cruelty … |
| 23 | But I have n't called you here for a professional opinion . ’ |
| 24 | It was important not to remember how Nuadu had looked in those last moments , defiant and unafraid , his head thrown back as the Robemaker had dragged him forward by the vicious crimson rope-lights . |
| 25 | When she discovered that he had called her repeatedly on a mobile phone she flew into a rage . |
| 26 | They manhandled her out of the vehicle and through the front doors , down the corridor and into the small , windowless and empty room that had become her home for the last nine hours . |
| 27 | I have known you well over a long period of time . |
| 28 | By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine . |
| 29 | She would have known him anywhere by the very set of his head , the mere shape of him , even so cramped and disabled . |
| 30 | The pump ‘ pinned us there for a few seconds before the other lads got it off ’ . |