Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] a large " in BNC.
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| 1 | And unfortunately I 'd eaten a large quantity of this Afghani black and I was really bombed out and I slept half way through Jimi Hendrix and I could have kicked myself . |
| 2 | I turned to see a large black dog on top of Mark , its tongue hanging out and a coy expression on its face . |
| 3 | Just in front of me I had seen a large shell-crater , an old one . |
| 4 | I remember that he liked one in celebration of wool ; another was of everything brown or gray , for which I had arranged a large collection of natural objects , of woven and blockprinted textiles , pots , and beautiful bowls and boxes made of wood . |
| 5 | As a present I had received a large book of complex Legion history written in difficult French . |
| 6 | She had prepared a large stew , or thick soup , her speciality , brought to perfection in years of communal living . |
| 7 | On the wall outside she had fixed a large notice which clearly indicated that here was the shop , and for someone to miss it they would need to be exceedingly short-sighted — or dozy . |
| 8 | She had found a large blanket , which she placed in the back of her car , in the garage . |
| 9 | She had married a large , closely knit family . |
| 10 | She had added a large floppy white collar bought in Spaxton , and one of her few pieces of jewellery — a Victorian cameo on a gold chain . |
| 11 | Before she could set out the cups she had to remove a large heavy book — Crockford — which occupied the centre of the table . |
| 12 | She wanted to buy a large water melon . |
| 13 | If you decided that you 're really only interested in long priced horses because you wanted win a large sum of money , so you only started looking at horses that were offered at fifty to one or longer odds than that , then if you look at the statistics then you 'll find that the rate of return on such bets is even lower than the rate of return that we 've quoted on football pools , but on the other hand if you look at horses which are offered , say , at odds-on or at very low odds , evens , two to one and things like that , then the rate of return is pretty close to a hundred per cent of your money . |
| 14 | Then came more accidents — we seemed to have a large number of accidents in the 1950s and early 1960s and many of them finished up as public inquiries . |
| 15 | We managed to acquire a large bag of Complete and made a surprise lunchtime presentation . |
| 16 | There they had joined a large group of sect heavies , some of whom were armed . |
| 17 | They had inherited a large number of hire schemes , and sometimes ( particularly for cookers in working class areas ) found it economic to continue these . |
| 18 | It was not until the next morning that the local council realised they had to repair a large hole in the middle of the square . |
| 19 | John Bowes could have spent the whole of his fortune on good living and racing but he chose to apply a large proportion to this fabulous collection and its breathtaking setting , which now forms part of our local heritage . |
| 20 | Although the poster exhibition failed to capture the imagination of the local press , it did attract a large number of visitors and over 200 copies of the historical booklet that accompanied the exhibition were sold . |
| 21 | By the second century B.C. it had become a large square surrounded by imposing buildings . |
| 22 | The fact that he had written a large part of it after his marriage led him to think of it as a work quite different from the one he had originally envisaged.It was while engaged on it at Kensington Court Gardens that he added the more tender love scenes which provide its real poetry . |
| 23 | He had ensured a large population by making the land inalienable and by prohibiting the exposure of children , a practice common among the Greeks . |
| 24 | But although he had mustered a large army the siege went badly for him . |
| 25 | By 1880 he had completed a large wing of workshops . |
| 26 | He waited until he had collected a large number of observations of the fact that he was fed at 9 a.m. , and he made these observations under a wide variety of circumstances , on Wednesdays and Thursdays , on warm days and cold days , on rainy days and dry days . |
| 27 | ‘ Sit down , ’ said Stone , after he had taken a large mouthful of the whisky . |
| 28 | I also spoke to the chief investigator of the Senate committee , who said that he had taken a large amount of information about this to the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington , but the British government had hampered any further investigation . |
| 29 | Robert said that ill-feeling between him and his brother had made him so annoyed that he had used a large knife to slash a rubber dinghy which they owned jointly . |
| 30 | He had bought a large map representing the sea , |