Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had n't checked them all at the time , and then they had forgotten . |
| 2 | But surely too many conversations are recorded in the Life for Boswell to have checked them all in literal detail ? |
| 3 | And she 's scoffed them all in this lesson ! |
| 4 | Her husband 's letter had reached them as soon as they arrived in their summer resting place and had plunged them all into abject misery . |
| 5 | What have you given me that for ? |
| 6 | As a rugby junkie , New Zealand has given me most of my best fixes . ’ |
| 7 | He has placed them both on the sofa under the magnificent painting of a Ramayana demon by his Thai protegé , not facing one another across his huge desk , to indicate that this is an intimate and informal interview , not to be taken too seriously whatever she says . |
| 8 | Mike Barson , the man who 'd given them most of their best tunes , quit the group , spent . |
| 9 | Tom , when he woke later had insisted that they should absorb some culture , had chivvied them both into his car and driven them first to the Villa Lante . |
| 10 | Mine seem to vary — I was given both a biography of Nancy Reagan , a quite old hardback of TV critical reviews and articles by Clive James and Muriel Spark 's autobiography ( about her childhood in Edinburgh ) recently and have enjoyed them all in different ways . |
| 11 | He got there at four o'clock he had four fish he could catch I think out of the ten for the week cos he caught the others and he 'd caught them all by half past four . |
| 12 | TOM : You know what 's amazed me most of all that I 've seen is Big Tree . |
| 13 | Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview . |
| 14 | Look , I 've booked us all into the Italian place round the corner . |
| 15 | When we arrived at the hotel I found that he 'd booked us both into the same double room . |
| 16 | Tremayne would doubtless have lent me some of the quarter-advance due at the end of the month but my lack was my own choice , and as long as I could survive as I was , I would n't ask . |
| 17 | In all there were eleven names , and Duncan had absorbed them all within five minutes . |
| 18 | It was my impression that slightly casual management may have turned them all to vinegar . |
| 19 | Anyhow it 's four runs for who is now eight , and he 's made them both in four , but , his two fours , eight , when you get three fours , two fours I think and a three in his first innings of eleven . |
| 20 | I have n't seen you both for such a long time , and you 're both of you just ! |
| 21 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , a former inspector of schools and senior education officer , has always joked that nothing could have prepared her more for being thrown into the deep end than leaving Cromer , where her father was a cattle dealer , for St Hilda 's College , Oxford , where she read modern languages . |
| 22 | His brother has lent him some for the time being , but Mr Szuluk says without proper clothes , he ca n't get a job . |
| 23 | Even Crump himself might be better meeting his Judgement now , after a life of useful business , than later when the disturbances of retirement — already foreshadowed — would most likely have made him less of a man than he was now , less happy , less useful , perhaps even diminished , by turbulent pettiness , in the very qualities which might now ensure his redemption . |
| 24 | She has made him more of an Expressionist than he really was but she has realised an essential truth : that Heartbreak House is a deeply poetic play about the death of liberal hopes and the cracking-apart of a civilisation . |
| 25 | You done 'em all like that . |
| 26 | It 's , what they 've done is they 've closed er er , erm branch , an office massive office in London and they 've moved them all over to Leeds because they ca n't get the people to take jobs in London so they 've transferred it all to Leeds , and erm there 's a chance of erm getting promotion , well , a very good chance of getting promotion down there . |
| 27 | See we 've done it all without decimal point on the calculator , and we never done . |
| 28 | And Rital , whose east European eyes had seen been and done it all for more of a century than she chose to admit , merely shrugged and locked the door . |
| 29 | ‘ I could have done it all for you with one phone call if you had let me . ’ |
| 30 | We 've done it all by talking to parents and finding our what they really want from us , so let us have your ideas , comments and requests too — after all , it 's your magazine . |