Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We eventually sold it in 1972 for £35 and bought an ancient wood-trimmed Morris Traveller , but no car as been as dear to us as Curtis . |
| 2 | She stood there beside him , acknowledging the marvellous presence of the terns , and as she did so the thought came to her that striped shirt , and pink tie , and Julia of the leather skirt , presumably passed them by five days a week without knowing that they did so . |
| 3 | But I swear , I only mentioned it to one person , and he 's the most trustworthy person I 've ever met . |
| 4 | The German academics very prudently ignored him for forty years ; but lately , to the disgrace of Germany , he has been discovered by an English critic . |
| 5 | Berwickshire was surveyed by John Blackadder and Ainslie only engraved it in 1797 . |
| 6 | Michael impatiently thrust him on one side and brought out the sack . |
| 7 | After I introduced the hemp earlier the fish seemed to go off the feed so I only introduced it for four or five casts . |
| 8 | When he only bought them for three X ? |
| 9 | In fact the original eighteen poems of the Hardy sequence , ( in the Collected Poems of 1919 , he damagingly extended it by three extra pieces ) tell a story of the poet 's pilgrimage to his and Emma 's early haunts , matching the stages of the journey there and back to specific stages of Aeneas 's journey , in Aeneid 6 , to the abode of the blest . |
| 10 | Well mum only had hers on one the other week . |
| 11 | I just found it on three |
| 12 | Er I du n no , I just found it in one of my |
| 13 | No erm as I say , I never saw her in there erm I looked under the bed saw nothing was there , I just dropped it with one hand . |
| 14 | Just re-opened it at twenty to six . |
| 15 | They had a large box of miscellaneous bit and pieces of sticky tape and straws and wood and drawing pins and all sorts of things , and we essentially just left them for two weeks to do this — and they came up with some superb ideas . |
| 16 | She just destroyed it in one go . |
| 17 | Thompson won the Olympic title that year , 1980 , successfully defended it in 1984 and has n't completed a decathlon since finishing fourth in the 1988 Games in Seoul . |
| 18 | Sir Thomas More owned it for two years , although he probably never lived there . |
| 19 | So a catastrophic drop to 5 per cent of its pre-deluge invertebrate quantities still provided them with three square meals a day . |
| 20 | But the Gloucesters still regarded him as one of theirs . |
| 21 | No I thought , cos I , I remember reading erm I think it 's her father who owns one of the bookshops in Woodbridge and he had this book on display , you know he sort of erm advertised it if you like and it 's , it 's properly published and everything but he had it as a a book available in his store and there was an advert in the Anglian about it , and I remember reading that she said er that he said er cos it was his daughter who had the child , that it totally knocked them for six . |
| 22 | ‘ Stay with me , boy , ’ he said in a low voice and Willie gratefully followed him into one of the pews . |
| 23 | The tug refloated the vessel , towed her to a sheltered anchorage where she was made fit for the tow to Hong Kong , and thereafter towed her for four days to docks in Hong Kong . |
| 24 | Hamilton picked up a pencil , and deliberately snapped it in two . |
| 25 | Tripoli postponed the elections until February ; Ajdabiyans confidently expected them on 1 February , and after that day the chairman of the local Assembly telephoned Tripoli each afternoon to ask if he should hold the poll . |
| 26 | My dad probably got them for fifty each , if he said a hundred . |
| 27 | The dull coloured brickwork merged into the undergrowth of trees , weeds and plants untamed and was hardly noticed by most passes by who probably dismissed it as one of Lincolnshire 's useless ruins , which would either fall down or have to be pulled down eventually . |
| 28 | An X-ray later condemned me to six months away from this crazy pastime . |
| 29 | My rich , dark Trappist practically knocked me for six at lunchtime , while a deep red cherry beer , Kriek , tasted like alcoholic cough mixture . |
| 30 | Mr Copeland also jailed him for three months for possessing Ecstasy , three months for possessing amphetamines , six months for having Ecstasy with intent to supply and three months for having amphetamines with intent to supply . |