Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My child you used and pierced my heart a hundred times and deep . ’ |
| 2 | I made my decision a long time ago , and now I have no rightful place in their lives . |
| 3 | We fought like cat and dog the whole time we were together — or at least most of the time , ’ she added , remembering , ‘ he made my life an absolute misery ! ’ |
| 4 | I went home and visited my GP the next day , and he gave me calamine lotion . |
| 5 | As soon as I loosened my grip the tiniest fraction — say to alter the angle of insertion from one that caused grievous bodily harm to one that was only very uncomfortable — the damned thing sprang into a new incarnation as a frisbee and shot across the room . |
| 6 | They found their bedroom the hardest room to decorate in the new style . |
| 7 | They found their spaceship a few minutes later , and soon they were ready to leave the planet . |
| 8 | Her flippancy helped her distance the odd reality of the blue that wove through her vision . |
| 9 | ‘ And these fellers used to go to sea like that ; and in these boats they were gone ten and twelve weeks , and they slept in little bunks , and they never changed their clothes the whole time . |
| 10 | The woman and three children were now laughing and I was pleased about that , as they had looked scared stiff when I entered their house a few moments before . |
| 11 | Dexter found his brevity a refreshing contrast to the self-conscious talkativeness of most of the people who worked at TV London . |
| 12 | On the fourth day we moved our camp a few miles to the east , where our trackers maintained we should find the nyala more numerous ; this proved to be the case . |
| 13 | Police now believe the couple met their deaths the following day , when their red Vauxhall Astra van was found abandoned at Manchester Airport . |
| 14 | Alida made her sound a different woman , some pale , sweetly-smiling , malleable soul . |
| 15 | Ever Dennis Peck 's Bad Boy , Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive officer Scott McNealy got some mileage out of the fact that Sun , DEC and Hewlett-Packard all made their announcements the same day last week : ‘ there 's a lot of noise out there right now , ’ he told his satellite audience . |
| 16 | And the police , disregarding the reds , heads , freaks , revolution , and rock at the front of the paper , made their target the gay contact personal ads at the back . |
| 17 | The fewer people who knew where she got her information the better . |
| 18 | Somerset CCC made its peace and admitted its mistake a long time ago . |
| 19 | — One explanation is that when visitors to West Africa pointed at the land around them and asked its name the local people though they were indicating a group of nearby women . |
| 20 | ‘ Listen to what happened to me , ’ I said , and I told my story a third time . |
| 21 | This resulted in a great deal of correspondence between myself and the Development Corporation and at the end of it I told my wife the best thing to do was to hand her notice in as there was no chance of us ever getting a house in Harlow , fortunately her services were much more seriously in demand then we imagined and the company nominated us for one , a house which is allocated to one of their executives , the house that we 're living in now and have lived in ever since nineteen sixty three . |
| 22 | ‘ I never went to drama school , ’ he would say without a hint of regret , ‘ but learnt my craft the hard way . ’ |
| 23 | This is a , you know , how you should approach change , er , I learnt my lesson a few years ago , because I went on a course , I came back to my office , and thought the world had changed . |
| 24 | She told her parents the next day . |
| 25 | A current three-year agreement ends in December and MDHC dropped its fee an undisclosed figure as a result of the new negotiations . |
| 26 | Laura twisted her heel a second time . |
| 27 | She learnt her lesson the hard way . |
| 28 | Stories abound of how the Whitley crews learnt their trade the hard way . |
| 29 | Lifted and dropped his shoulders a few times , he 'd seen people do it when they tried on clothes in stores . |
| 30 | She could look back down on her twenty-two years and see a tall handsome man , and she recalled his words a few minutes ago , ‘ Sorrow does n't last . ’ |