Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eventually made it into the Yorkshire second XI and ultimately the first team . |
| 2 | Originally six absconded from a local farm and successfully made it to the mill in a lorry chassis , however they had dwindled to a single cockerel . |
| 3 | I managed to track her down and eventually got her on the telephone . |
| 4 | ‘ When I struck the bream tore off downstream and dragged me into some weeds but I eventually got it to the bankside , ’ said Matthew . |
| 5 | Dorchester may have been an extreme case , but throughout England , there were hard-working , anxious , godly folk whose rage with their king eventually led him to the scaffold at Whitehall . |
| 6 | Back in the main town , we explored twisting alleys which eventually led us to the old Frankish quarter . |
| 7 | Dorinda only knows herself by the mirror : it has literally and figuratively provided her with a self-image . |
| 8 | The rebuilding of the town of Warwick after the fire presumably provided him with an initial opportunity , and he was later responsible for a further group of churches and other public buildings ; but the predominant element in his practice was the building of country houses for the midlands gentry . |
| 9 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |
| 10 | She was not there and after running frantically around the garden he eventually found her beside the old hanging tree at the bottom of the path . |
| 11 | We eventually found it on a road off the A35 east of Bridport . |
| 12 | Shoreditch eventually found it in a dictionary of American slang : ‘ A horse who wins a race by prearrangement ; a person , team , candidate , etc , who will or did win easily . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ What happened , Fabia ? ’ he relentlessly pursued her for an answer . |
| 14 | She was a somewhat intense woman who probably rather enjoyed such gatherings , but I 've often wondered if she secretly used them as a ruse to get her husband home to mind the little one while she nipped out for a breather . |
| 15 | And whereas Picasso had been forced to reintroduce clues , small fragments of legibility , into his work to render it more accessible to the spectator , Braque , even at his most abstract , instinctively retained them as a link with reality . |
| 16 | Mr Clay went on to tell of his visits to a bone-setter , who successfully healed him after an accident . |
| 17 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |
| 18 | This eventually drew him into the company of Frederick Denison Maurice [ q.v. ] and the band of young men who surrounded him , and the combination of their enthusiasm and insights produced the Christian Socialist movement of 1848 to 1854 . |
| 19 | But a lot of them only made it by the skin of his teeth and are in the party only because of their reputation . |
| 20 | Just as Debbie was about to wind up the window , he suddenly asked her for a lift , saying he only lived 5 minutes down the road and could she drop him on her way ? |
| 21 | Which which Mrs Thatcher rightly committed us to and rightly whipped us through the house And and it and it |
| 22 | He says that Wilko always talked in riddles with him , became jealous at his popularity and so sold him to the scum so he would appear to be a traitor . |
| 23 | She only fought him for a moment or two . |
| 24 | And it seemed Fergie 's ten man heroes had squeezed out a momentous victory until the soccer fates suddenly stabbed them in the back in the pouring rain of Moscow . |
| 25 | so it was a bit of er struggle to er , to get them to come and look at it and fix 'em up again , well they did n't fix 'em up they , they , they give 'em a new one , they only got it in the sale |
| 26 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 27 | We gently lowered it to the floor . |
| 28 | Ribble 's failure to provide the service paid for will have caused inconvenience , and distress to elderly residents of Scorton and perhaps involved them in the extra cost of missed appointments or expensive taxi fares . |
| 29 | The former England batsman also claimed that Donald was not a one-day cricketer and that Warwickshire only used him with the new ball in such games . |
| 30 | It alone provided him with an ideal of peace . |