Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " 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 | Remarkably it 's Derry fourth successive appearance in the final — they 've won it twice in the last three years . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 8 | This and his link with Stevenson 's had served him well over the last few years , and he had become something of an expert in railway funding , especially in European railways . |
| 9 | He had wanted her almost from the first moment , and he had loved her for nearly as long . |
| 10 | I would have liked to have heard it again at the second service but Dad made us hurry home . |
| 11 | It seems to epitomise the whole range of values and ideas that have taken me there in the first place . |
| 12 | ‘ she has never seen what is good , how can she be good ? ’ — Vincent quoted from Zola 's L'Assommoir to back up his contention ; or perhaps he had read it there in the first place and appropriated it . |