Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dropped out of sixth form because of a young Frenchman with green eyes . |
| 2 | When I looked up at last , it was to see the near cliffs bright with the afternoon sun , and the sea creaming calmly against the storm beach in the gentlest of high tides . |
| 3 | No , I bottled out at last minute . |
| 4 | ‘ Well at least you got through at last , ’ said Carrington . |
| 5 | cooking the tea , I remember it was fish fingers and chips I was doing and er the dam lights all went out , you were only little and erm Lynsey er , she came round from next door because she started cooking her chips |
| 6 | But you had a bit of flare up A You flared up in last time you had came off it , did n't you ? |
| 7 | That was all she took in at first , until Miss Belle cried in an excited voice , ‘ Well , Rene , take the coat off and let her feel it . |
| 8 | As he released her hand and slid his fingers through her hair , drawing her unresisting head towards him , she reached out at last to touch the dark curls at his ear . |
| 9 | She went on to 16th place , the winner being Josefa Idem of Italy . |
| 10 | ‘ Having second thoughts on what you missed out on last night ? ’ she sneered . |
| 11 | It was a success in so much one did out of fifth M O Ts that prove to be forged and was identified very quickly . |
| 12 | They moved up to 11th place but left London in 17th and last place , without a win this term . |
| 13 | They moved up to 11th place but left London in 17th and last place , without a win this term . |
| 14 | They came out at last and Haile Selassie went forward under a crimson canopy to show himself to his people . |
| 15 | But Jim really hurt her because erm when she was going out with him he was a virgin and then erm they came back , you notice things were a bit sort of sort of on the rocks when they came back at first ? |
| 16 | Val with Matthew and William took the train to Auckland — a trip they recommended so much that I did it as well , 5 weeks later — and after staying overnight with the Hartleys they flew out on 23rd March — five and a half months after our arrival . |
| 17 | Donald McCulloch came back from ‘ the reel of Ballechin' long after his mother , and when he got up at last next morning , the cold porridge had been thrown out to the hens . |
| 18 | He got up at last and stared out of the window at the empty road and the gravel pits , grey in the dawn light . |
| 19 | He drew back at last . |
| 20 | He came over to last year 's boat reunion at Pembroke Dock . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Would you like me to see if there 's a doctor on the train ? ’ the conductor asked as he walked back through First Class with her . |
| 22 | He pulled up in fourth gear at the foot of the balustraded stone steps which led up to the solicitor 's office : Totteridge , Spruce and Hardnut , Commissioners for Oaths , said the brass plate . |
| 23 | ‘ You know my position , ’ he broke out at last . |
| 24 | It cost him three minutes and he fell back to 14th overall , but drove magnificently to recover much of the deficit and climb back to eighth by the end of the day , sharing two stage victories with McRae . |
| 25 | ‘ But why ? ’ asked the Ambassador when he looked up at last . |
| 26 | These pit-stops proved to be disastrous for Hill , whose Williams crew did not seem to be prepared and he slipped back from second to fourth as a result of his stop which lasted more than 17 seconds . |
| 27 | Scott 's experience was typical : when he wrote in on 1st December querying various aspects of the schedules , he was brusquely told a week later that no variations were permitted , and the designs must be prepared in accordance with the printed instructions . |
| 28 | He held back at first , but only until she was confined in the hospital at Leyden . |
| 29 | He sat down at last to silence , but as a man fulfilled : the tutorial was over . |