Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , much later , after the war , Mr Chatto was installed , and after him John Sandoe came along , in 1957 , and that is when I first really took notice of what was soon to become a ‘ singular bookshop ’ as opposed to just a bookseller . |
| 2 | And we eight maybe took meningitis and died |
| 3 | I suppose when we were younger , we all rather took Alice for granted , but looking back , one can see what a strong character she had even then . |
| 4 | Chosen by Elizabeth Easton , Brooklyn 's associate curator of European Painting and Sculpture , it contains sixty paintings and works on paper ( among them ten recently discovered works ) , including the monumental ‘ Bathers ’ from the Fogg Art Museum , the ‘ Negress with Peonies ’ from the Musée Fabre , Montepellier , and ‘ Self-Portrait with Palette ’ from the Art Institute of Chicago . |
| 5 | His wrist still throbbed from his fight with the Big Chicken but it seemed to be the only part of him that still had feeling ; the rest had retired bleeding but numbed into some secret cave of its own . |
| 6 | Hair plastered , they all just trod water |