Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jessamy stopped drawing for a few moments . |
| 2 | This worked as a strategy at least for as long as the persons involved lived in the same household and shared their resources . |
| 3 | At first , the Sisters themselves tried knocking in a few nails or propping up walls with staves . |
| 4 | As in the Merchant Service , a close friendship usually developed between the Commanding Officer and the Chief Engineer , and on the cutters the Commander usually tried to sail with the same chief whenever possible . |
| 5 | We both had large appetites and although we tried to get on the same table at mealtimes so that we could monopolise the food , we were permanently hungry . |
| 6 | Later , Margaret stopped playing for a few years so she could concentrate on squash but three years ago she returned to the sport and now plays outside hitter for the Balerno team . |
| 7 | He promised to return within a few weeks , bearing a bonnet of fashionable design . |
| 8 | Some stopped dividing after a few hours and remained generalised in form and in dense clusters . |
| 9 | The first photoelectrochemical cells also had low efficiencies and stopped working after a few hours — this time due to light-induced erosion of the semiconducting electrode . |
| 10 | Those that were there seemed intended as no more than second or even third-string playthings for those untouched by the recession . |
| 11 | Even Daddy , wisest and kindest of men , seemed to suffer from the same delusion . |
| 12 | He too had been influenced by Lyell , and as early as 1855 had published a paper commenting on the fact that new species always seemed to appear in the same neighbourhood as a closely related existing species . |
| 13 | Now , if he 'd written in a more highfalutin way , or he 'd talked about Liz and myself , or a variety of other things , in a very pontificating way , it may never have got in the newspaper because they would have said , ‘ What is the relevance ? |
| 14 | Stack claim that the gun is balanced for colour as well as brightness of the image but all the games seemed to play with the same degree of accuracy even with a black&white image . |
| 15 | Nick and she , they were proportioned to each other , they seemed to belong to the same tribe . |
| 16 | All the anger she had ever felt seemed to shrink into no more than fits of petty temper in the face of what she was feeling now . |
| 17 | He 'd played with a few friends over the years but never managed to overcome the logistics of forming and fronting a band . |
| 18 | On the other hand , the ordinary and the extraordinary seemed to coincide at the same point . |
| 19 | Life appeared to continue largely as normal in the Libyan capital , and the warning seemed to amount to no more than the routine diplomatic tit-for-tat when countries expel each other 's envoys . |
| 20 | It was difficult to raise the vein as the filly staggered around , but she came to rest for a few seconds and I dug my thumb into the jugular furrow . |
| 21 | Ben had been nine when he 'd gone to the same school , he reminded her . |
| 22 | I 'd hoped for a little money , at the very most , a thousand . |
| 23 | A few days before Michael came home , our daughter-in-law Pippa came to stay for a few days , bringing Emily , who was to go to a boarding-school in Yorkshire . |
| 24 | But the sailors in the northern hemisphere — the part of the earth north of the Equator — realised that there was one star which always seemed to stay in the same place — the Pole Star . |
| 25 | We 'd started at the same time . |
| 26 | Whetton seemed to move into the All Black position more or less on the grounds of seniority and his experience of captaining Auckland . |
| 27 | And somehow all her own reservations and objections seemed to evaporate at the same time . |
| 28 | He himself was only a little shy — and obviously very proud of the English words he 'd acquired in the few months since his arrival . |
| 29 | He happened to work for the same paper which stitched Botham up some eight years ago . |
| 30 | But if , by sheer coincidence , all the molecules just happened to move in the same direction at the same moment , the hand would move . |