Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ate these twice a year or so |
| 2 | If its home clock said the time was 12.00 a.m. but the sun at the release site indicated 6.00 a.m. the pigeon would infer it had been moved one quarter of the way round the world to the west . |
| 3 | At the end of April I had almost forgotten my prediction for a release when Bilal and his partner , for whom we had no other name than Frank 's ‘ Jerk ’ , excitedly started spring-cleaning both the apartment and us . |
| 4 | This improvement became available only a couple of years ago in the shape of Gore-Tex booties . |
| 5 | We got drunk together the night before Boris left . |
| 6 | We thought this rather a joke but his concern was academic , not snobbish . |
| 7 | Perhaps he thought that a man , or more than one man , was trying to hurt or kill his mother , and perhaps he thought this nearly every night of his life . |
| 8 | I bet that Terry Waite was praying his head off and he 'd memorised masses of the bible which he would be reciting to himself probably said he thought two o'clock every afternoon I 'll remember what I can of Book of Isaiah you know . |
| 9 | ‘ You know your father almost went bankrupt about a year ago ? ’ |
| 10 | By the end of the inquiry , he had cross-examined nearly every witness from either the nuclear industry or a government department and delivered vast reams of his own evidence on every subject covered , some amounting to several hundred pages of closely-typed script . |
| 11 | At that time the Conservative majority over all other parties exceeded 130 so the result demonstrated a major back-bench rebellion . |
| 12 | The heat on the rock flow became intense only an hour or two after sunrise . |