Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he finally turned into Brunel Road and stopped to catch his breath the others were nowhere to be seen . |
| 2 | We all ran like hell and when we stopped to catch our breath the police said keep on running , there 's another one . ’ |
| 3 | Those daily walks with her helped to calm my mind a little , but I could not bear the thought of writing poems again , not without Dana . |
| 4 | When Martin Scorsese filmed The Rat Jacket , Cameron Nielson Sr tried to get his son the job of writing the score , but the deal fell through . |
| 5 | As he rose to take his leave the Magistrate thought again of the stupidity of the zemindars who had refused to reinforce the embankments ; near him , in the lumber of possessions , was an oil painting of a stag at bay : that was just how he felt himself . |
| 6 | He phoned to tell his bosses the bad news . |
| 7 | He was gazing at her with an infuriating world-weariness suggesting he 'd heard her argument a hundred times before . |
| 8 | Hari knew it was mostly done to help Craig and yet Edward Morris seemed to like her work a great deal . |
| 9 | I 'd broken my heel the week before whilst soloing at Pex Hill ! |
| 10 | Arrangements were carefully made so that Lunia would not be compromised and Modigliani came to paint her portrait the following day in the Sunny Hotel on the Boulevard de Port-Royal , the little lodging house where Zborowski was living with his handsome and somewhat forbidding common-law wife , Anna ( Hanka ) Zborowska . |
| 11 | When the Queen came to visit her grandchild the following day her comment was typical . |
| 12 | When Carco 's concierge came to clean his room the next day , she almost fainted at the sight of the nude picture hanging over his bed . |
| 13 | Modigliani arrived quite sober for the occasion but when the two painters came to discuss their work the conversation became dangerously frigid . |
| 14 | He 'd got your number the first time we met . |
| 15 | Unable to keep up the pretence any longer , she 'd told her friend the whole , disastrous story behind her stay in New York , only withholding her fears about a possible pregnancy as she 'd related the disastrous sequence of events . |
| 16 | Even after I 'd told my wife the good news I could n't hide my depression . |
| 17 | When the Marquis of Maisonfort came to give his master the news of the events in Paris , he cried out joyously : " Sire ! |
| 18 | I 've turned it over and over in my mind , and it seems to me — I ne'er told the lad this , lovey — but it seems to me she waited till she 'd borne my Jake a son in his own image , as if she knew that 'd grieve him as nothing else could . |
| 19 | Without wasting time , she managed to close the door , having noticed that he 'd removed his foot the minute he 'd become a little uncomfortable . |
| 20 | I went to the kitchen for something to eat but I 'd finished my food the night before and he had n't given me any more . |
| 21 | They 'd lost their way a little , they 've come back a little and they 're going to win this Anglo-Italian match . |
| 22 | Yeah I am aware of that style actually because I 'd sent my brother a |
| 23 | She was particularly concerned when , shortly before her wedding day , she discovered that Prince Charles planned to give his friend a bracelet inscribed with their nicknames ‘ Fred ’ and ‘ Gladys ’ . |
| 24 | Kelly planned to give his teammates a run-down on the Leicester players at a team-meeting last night . |
| 25 | David began signing his letters The Boss and I think he quite liked it , ’ says Charman . |
| 26 | In 1973 I began investigating what effect the uncertainty principle would have on a particle in the curved space-time near a black hole . |
| 27 | ‘ A dreadful tyrant ’ is the verdict of Lev Markiz , founder-conductor of the Moscow Soloists — ‘ the whole orchestra began to tune their instruments an hour before the rehearsal was due to start , and 30 minutes later them sat there with instruments tuned , ready to begin ’ . |
| 28 | He began to appreciate his wife a little for her lack of romance and her low cost . |
| 29 | In 1973 I started investigating what difference the uncertainty principle would make to black holes . |
| 30 | But I decided to give my countryman a chance , not that I 'd moved four thousand miles to be shown around London by a fellow American , and a hick from the provinces to boot . |