Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is real wilderness — we met no-one else in a day 's walking . |
| 2 | The Queen Mother and Cazalet went over to see Devon Loch and he appeared to be sound : inspection by a vet immediately after the calamity revealed nothing amiss with him . |
| 3 | The administrator 's greeting made everyone else in the room turn round to look . |
| 4 | It was her left arm , however , so she was able to write out the application to my dictation , and I got someone else to type it . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's the first time that Jackie and Terry have met , ’ beamed someone else from Heinemann , sailing resolutely forward towards the cameras . |
| 6 | For reasons set out in earlier reports and in statements ( IG 16–19 ) concerning her car , abandoned in Exeter station car-park , it is possible , even likely , that she met someone there by arrangement … |
| 7 | He went on through the files but found nothing else of interest . |
| 8 | I found nothing else of interest but Bernice turned up a couple of old school exercise books of Billy 's and decided to keep them in remembrance . |
| 9 | The first one came after 27 minutes , when Neil Matthews beat everyone else to the ball . |
| 10 | The remainder , very carelessly and messily written , was supplied by an unidentified copyist , who contributed nothing else to the score ; and it lacks trumpet parts , though he left staves for them . |
| 11 | We tried one yesterday in and Vicki had to pull me out did n't you ? |
| 12 | Yes , they drew one all on Saturday with a nervy type of game , a player got sent off , so it 's all to play for again tonight . |
| 13 | ‘ I built one specifically to a seven-note design and the loco carried it from Paddington to Sheffield . |
| 14 | Kuijken ( ) , as ever , puts musical values first , and in this he reminds me very much of a firstgeneration ‘ authentic ’ recording made by the Collegium Aureum under Schmidt-Garden ( not yet available on CD ) , which similarly involved one textually in a way which few versions can match , even if one is left with the impression that many of the musical solutions may have registered almost as comfortably on modern instruments . |
| 15 | His medium stature condemned him to character parts — unless a choreographer created something especially for him , as John Cranko did in Prince of the Pagodas and Bonne-Bouche and Kenneth MacMillan in Noctambules . |
| 16 | There seemed nothing else to be said , and Melissa went out of the room and upstairs to the secretary 's office , where , in response to her request to use the phone , Marie-Claire grudgingly pushed the instrument across her desk . |
| 17 | ‘ Bill , what would you do if one of the gang went out at night and told someone all about us , and what we 'd done ? |
| 18 | ‘ Your father thought he recognised someone here in the hotel . ’ |
| 19 | The primitive sound of it stirred something deep inside me as though it were Pan himself , not some Indian labourer , playing those haunting notes on that rude instrument . |
| 20 | I started — and still do — in a field that I call my Chagall field because Chagall once painted one exactly like it . |
| 21 | Not that magnification is all-important ; it is far better to have a smaller , well-defined image than a larger , blurred one even for observing the Moon or a planet . |
| 22 | I spilled something all over my blouse , that 's all . |
| 23 | They went on playing traditional sevens and as they were not inconvenienced by their one weakness , which is their lack of appetite for scrummaging , they played everybody else off the colony by an even larger margin than usual . |
| 24 | It had been intended at Vatican I to complement the papal definitions with something much wider , but pressure from Franco-Prussian conflict combined , maybe , with a lack of Roman interest in a larger agenda , prevented anything further from being said . |
| 25 | The incident with the muntjac doe had distracted him for a while but gradually the sense of exultation in his deeds of the previous evening returned and blotted everything else from his mind . |
| 26 | The basic urge for gratification blotted everything else from my mind . ’ |
| 27 | I made one yesterday in a meat tin and so Lynn had a lump and I got a lump and you here . |
| 28 | But as she mounted the first of the steps to the front door she sensed someone close to her . |
| 29 | Colin Montgomerie finished one ahead of Olazabal after a last round of 70 and thinks he has benefited much from his four weeks in the United States . |
| 30 | in division three Hereford are at home to Northampton … the last time these two met it was a demolition derby United had four sent-off … it finished one all on goals lets hope its 11 all on players tomorrow |