Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we 'd have to go through it the next day anyway . |
| 2 | This year he found for us a first edition of an early play by Samuel Beckett , an important book about China , and the original German text of theopera DerFreischütz , as well as other lovely things . |
| 3 | He thought that to remain would look ‘ unsporting ’ and would count against him the next time . |
| 4 | The tariff policy therefore carried with it the last hope of consolidating the Empire and the last hope of reversing the drift into class politics ; as a pessimist , Law saw further ahead than most of his contemporaries , and events proved him to be more nearly right than they were . |
| 5 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 6 | Sandy was going to the US and I asked if I could carry for him the next year , but everybody was asking so I did n't get very far . |
| 7 | It literally , it literally means produce the body only you ca n't simply , well the difference between a constitutional system and er an arbitrary government is that in arbitrary governments people get arrested and disappear , locked up , throw away the key and worry about it the next generation or after the next er military coup or whatever but in a constitutional government there have to be procedures and one of the safeguards of individual liberty is that if you 're ever arrested and detained by law enforcement agencies you have to be produced before a court within a specified period and charged with something . |
| 8 | The rub is the general conviction , based on the man 's record , that the same pragmatism , unencumbered by ideology or ethics , that leads him to sign an agreement one day will lead him to renege or cheat on it the next . |
| 9 | You listen to it the first time you do n't like it and then after that then |
| 10 | and then listen to it the second time and you go , ah ! |
| 11 | That God will give me a clear vision for the future and reveal to me the next step after DTS . |
| 12 | What had the vacillating vamp said to her the last time they were together ? |
| 13 | ‘ See , ’ said Renwick pointing to his balding pate , ‘ that 's what happened to me the last time I did n't stop ! ’ |
| 14 | In other words , rats with hippocampal lesions have difficulty in refraining from punished responses because they can not remember what happened to them the last time that they did whatever it was that led to the punishment . |
| 15 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
| 16 | His extraordinary eyes he veiled with lowered lids and humility , and only the satirical curve of his long lips , accentuated by those twin russet flames that forked upwards through his short black beard , caused the chamberlain who admitted him to look at him a second time . |
| 17 | As I was sending a copy of the new book to all those slimmers who were mentioned in the Complete Hip and Thigh Diet , I decided to include with it a second questionnaire . |
| 18 | From time to time a little breeze , trapped in the courtyard , eddied and gusted in their direction , bringing with it the first hint of the sweet smell of decay . |
| 19 | copy to you the first time |
| 20 | We are not claiming either that He has somehow implanted in us a sixth sense that gives us certainty He exists whilst our other five senses provide no such assurance . |
| 21 | My father may well wish for me a second marriage , and to that end I must be at offer soon , and with a proper dowry . |
| 22 | I mean it 's about sort of you know in it 's about increasing the erm where we are within our own particular sphere and it 's far too much I mean people it 's interesting that I mean for the , it seems to me an and once again correction but it seems to me the last five years the empowerment thing was really strong and now managers are moving away from it and saying it 's jargon as a means of diluting it . |
| 23 | I went through them a second time with the copper who came round here . ’ |
| 24 | He then ordered a car to call for him the next morning for a similar occasion and was felled by a stroke while waiting for the lift . |
| 25 | When the cotton trade began to boom in the 1780s , Africa and Asia took between them a fifth of cotton goods exported , with Europe and America sharing the rest almost equally . |
| 26 | Who had seen enacted before him the last skirmish in the war which had now given him his own longed-for kingdom of Cyprus . |
| 27 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 28 | It 's hopelessly confusing to a child if you laugh at her behaviour one day , but shout at her the next for the same trick . |
| 29 | Please reserve for me a sixteenth of a page space in the August issue of Folk Roots . |
| 30 | THE death of the Dowager Duchess of Rutland has taken from us the last and most loved of our nieces ( for niece she was , although older than the present writers by five and ten years ) . |