Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could help to give substance to what is meant by the spiritual dimension , for both of them lived out the kind of character expressed in the middle column of Table 6.1 . |
| 2 | A ten-minute soak worked wonders on Merrill 's jaded sense of well-being , and when she went down she found the three of them seated around a huge log fire . |
| 3 | He liked numbers ; they were funny little squiggles and he liked the way everyone agreed when an answer was right although he did not understand why . |
| 4 | The Babylonian Jews were loyal to the Seleucids ; 8,000 of them fought off an attack of marauding Ga ] atians , according to the Second Book of Maccabees ( 8.20 ) . |
| 5 | One of them got out the ugliest looking knife that I have seen to cut a piece of string or something on his bicycle . |
| 6 | ‘ How many of them lacked only the good fortune that saved you ? ’ |
| 7 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 8 | If anyone had seen me bent over a motorbike with my ear pressed to the back of a Transit van outside the Barbican that morning , probably nobody would have looked twice . |
| 9 | I became quite a celebrity because of it . |
| 10 | I never did get the hang of table tennis but I became quite a useful bantam-weight and once even represented the club against Bethnal Green . |
| 11 | After a further period of three months or so , Don Bennett appointed me Group training inspector — and I became virtually a horse thief ! |
| 12 | A bomb was brought to the house which Butler shared with Stephen Hill , and there Butler showed his co-accused how the device worked . |
| 13 | Nothing happened for half an hour so I asked where the nearest Young Women 's Christian Association hostel was . |
| 14 | And finally I asked where the object was . |
| 15 | I asked where the blood tests were done — of course , I already knew — she told me . |
| 16 | I asked how the financial problems afflicting the charity had come about ? |
| 17 | When I asked how the Public Accounts Committee could examine what I regarded as gross excesses and a gross dereliction of duty by the Secretary of State for Transport , I was told — quite properly that the PAC could investigate only specific charges . |
| 18 | I housed both the processor and amp in an SKB 2U rack case and hardwired a double mains board in the back . |
| 19 | I skidded down the escarpment in high spirits and made a bee-line for the town . |
| 20 | It was too cold and windy to sit and wait , though , so I limped back the way I had come , embittered at having to walk unnecessarily . |
| 21 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
| 22 | Now it would maybe not be appropriate if there was to be an alternative government bill that would deal with these type of matters er in front of us and please to say that when I read out the list of sponsors , it 'll be shown there are people from all parties , or all parties in Britain in this house , who are true democrats . |
| 23 | I read earlier the CBI 's rejection of any policy in which the Government tried to pick winners , determine strategic investments and interfere in the decisions of business . |
| 24 | Then , as another kind of exorcism , I made up a list of : |
| 25 | So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " . |
| 26 | So 38×84″ was my conclusion and I made up the stretchers . |
| 27 | I made up the difference out of my own money . ’ |
| 28 | So I made up the rest and everyone liked it . |
| 29 | Anyway I made completely the wrong decision with her with her the first time . |
| 30 | Half-blinded by shadow I made out a steep wall of steps and moved towards it . |