Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even know you tried to pay back the last five shillings a few minutes before my father went to the synagogue one Saturday . |
| 2 | I am not sure if Sir Henry Wood conducted it , for at that time he seemed to conduct only the first item of a concert , and then ceded the podium to Basil Cameron . |
| 3 | If she 'd cocked up a second race , Bill would have jocked her off Shine On , whatever Ibn Fayoud said . |
| 4 | I 'd woken up the next morning at Aisha 's place , not convinced that I was really in London : her flat was like any flat at home with the same smell , the same coloured ottomans and rugs , the same pictures on the walls , the brass tray in the middle of the room , and the loud shrieks and wails of her two children puncturing the air . |
| 5 | He 'd pulled up the first spring weeds from the flower-beds , little shoots of dandelion and dock and Scotch grass . |
| 6 | And told to turn up the next morning , waited another four hours , finally a patient who 'd had an operation for a serious gall bladder operation two days before hand was kicked out of his bed and sent home so that she would be put in the bed , given the operation ! |
| 7 | We 'd finished off the second round with an eagle when Lee put one in from miles away , and in the third round he seemed to be holing putts right , left and centre , which was a good job because we 'd fallen foul of the 6th again , for the third time . |
| 8 | Though everyone was behind Sheehan as she strove to become only the thirteenth entrant to the Hall of Fame , it was difficult not to feel for Dawn Coe-Jones . |
| 9 | Leaving the heat and the nearly finished bridehouse , I returned to soak up the last of a cool , green English summer . |
| 10 | He tempted Mike Atherton into a rash hook before lunch then returned to break up a third wicket stand between Fairbrother and Nick Speak which had put Lancashire in complete command . |
| 11 | Sitting on the edge of the bed , Tug balanced the tray on his knees and began to cut up the first beefburger . |
| 12 | Frau Trauffer and her daughter began to bring in the first of six bountiful courses . |
| 13 | He started to work out the next stage . |
| 14 | ‘ Alan played a brilliant shot when he needed to open up the last two reds . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Thank God , ’ he muttered , as he started to scramble down the last foot or two to seize the halter shank that dangled so near , and yet just out of his reach . |
| 16 | She trudged slowly behind Evelyn , who took the cloth and started to rub out the first word with painstaking precision . |
| 17 | However , when Raymond Plant of Southampton University wrote a Fabian Tract on the subject , he chose to emphasise not the third element in the French Revolutionary triad but rather the third element in T.H. Marshall 's triad of civil , political and social citizenship . |
| 18 | After a night of endless fun — rounders followed by Cluedo , Cheat and a visit to the Clumber Park Social Club where Ken performed a striking rendition of Wild Thing on his guitar — I felt burnt out the next morning , but everyone else was raring to go . |
| 19 | She spoke about her life and at the end of the day she offered to iron out a last minute hitch when the pianist failed to turn up . |
| 20 | I managed to get down the last two words of the preceding paragraph before my stomach over-boiled into my mouth . |
| 21 | But you never managed to stay there the first day . |
| 22 | The bus failed to get up the first steep hill it came to . |
| 23 | By the terms of the Tomlin order the appellants agreed to pay off the second charge and to grant a further charge to the plaintiff for the purpose of securing payment to the plaintiff of the sum of £150,000 , such payment being one of the terms of the agreement made between the parties . |
| 24 | Yeah , we er , we won the , the losers trophy twice , we got first round trophy , got knocked out the first round to go to that , me , half , half the decent teams were knocked out in the first round , you know , we were , we were playing sort of , that , that was , nine times out of ten that was the real cup , I mean we , we were up against the league champions once |
| 25 | Then what the guys did going down the 18th was incredible . |
| 26 | After Richard Eaton had cancelled out a second minute opener from Kenny Morris on 20 minutes , John Stephens shot Annadale into the lead with a superb finish to two minutes into the second period . |
| 27 | Chelsea looked worthy of at least a point after Mick Harford 's 72nd minute goal had cancelled out a first half Saunders header . |
| 28 | Now they had to work out the 24th number . |
| 29 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 30 | Grollet said a laboratory in Utrecht had carried out a second test on 14 September and that , too , had been positive . |