Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people in bands have quite similar backgrounds and I reckon a lot of them shared the same experience as I did . |
| 2 | Now we do n't need so many generals and governors , they let some of them read a few books . |
| 3 | Below : The Nfis Slabs — descending them posed a few problems ( photos by the author ) . |
| 4 | It was too easy to gain access to a Company 's computer records when everyone used the same communications web . |
| 5 | He worked in another part of the factory , but everyone used the same coffee bar . |
| 6 | When I asked the self-same question . |
| 7 | I applied the same methods here , watching people rather than talking to them , and I learnt many new things about the way humans interact . |
| 8 | ‘ But nobody appreciates more than me how Ian feels because I endured the same thing at exactly this time last year . |
| 9 | ‘ I made no such suggestion , my lord , ’ protested Aycliffe . |
| 10 | She never revealed her own secrets to me but then after a while I made no more enquiries — I did n't want to do anything to lose her . ’ |
| 11 | Er er , I 've , er I just I 'm just saying that , er , that , that last year er , when I made a few remarks that they were misquoted by Reuters and we did leave the meeting and the share price dropped by er , several P and we had to send out a correcting statement so this year we 've taken the precaution of issuing a press release er , at the same time as er , er , I 'm making these remarks so I hope at least they wo n't be misinterpreted . |
| 12 | Now that was the point I made a few moments ago . |
| 13 | When they fished me out I made a few phone calls , |
| 14 | It 's going to cost you under thirty eight pounds , so I 've got a little bit of wei , leeway if I made a few mistakes . |
| 15 | Yes , I made a few mistakes at first , like cutting up their slices of salami to the thickness of a sliced loaf . |
| 16 | I made a few inquiries . |
| 17 | I made a few suggestions , creating chances , scoring goals , but it did not get through . |
| 18 | ‘ I made a few enquiries an' it 's up fer rent , ’ he called back . |
| 19 | ‘ When I got your letter , I made a few enquiries and discovered that you are intending to practise from Broom House . |
| 20 | Well , you know , I think it was a kind of sports bag or something and I thought oh I 'll go along with that and the other , I mean I had heard of them before and I made a few enquiries and they said , you know , you you were quite quality company so I thought |
| 21 | In a survey on shopping which I made a few years ago one of my student interviewers was questioning an old lady about the grocer 's shop she used . |
| 22 | Would you mind if I made a few housing enquiries for you ? |
| 23 | My story is similar to Annie 's in that I made the same mistake and thought of my granddaughter as a substitute child . |
| 24 | I made the same mistake that I make , year after year . |
| 25 | I made the same mistake . |
| 26 | I made the same point in the previous chapter but it may help if I give a concrete example . |
| 27 | Two days later I met the same lady and her sari had been stolen in the middle of the night . |
| 28 | This evening , returning by the lane , I met the same cat . |
| 29 | Oddly enough I met the same warrant officer some years later when he was SWO on a station near Warboys and we had many a chuckle about that . |
| 30 | My lack of means is extreme , granted , and I look bad , skin white , mouth chapped , body apparently even shorter than usual , eye roaming and I daresay a bit fretful , trousers in bad shape , attention astray for a book lying around to pinch or even an old magazine , since I sold a few volumes I should now like to have kept , in exchange for a slug of what turned out to be the world 's nastiest though cheapest whiskey . |