Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls . |
| 2 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 3 | It was still unthinkable to see him without his sketchbook and pencil , but of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings he made , he gave away many or sold them for a few francs . |
| 4 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 5 | you probably got them from the same place . |
| 6 | First of all Gyggle tried me on the same sort of rudimentary exercises that I remembered performing as a child . |
| 7 | He withdrew all charges against them and immediately re-charged them with the same ones . |
| 8 | However , Will Purser helped me with a few defensive sentences such as , ‘ Please talk slowly , I have only just begun to learn Burmese . ’ |
| 9 | James Boswell , for example , often used them for the former , even occasionally , apparently , for the latter ; but never it seems with his wife . |
| 10 | One night , he found himself with a few other police enveloped in the hatred of a black township uprising . |
| 11 | And within six years , wanting to register ( in The Criter - ion for 1934 ) the distinction of Binyon 's version of the Inferno despite its consistent inversions of prosaic word order , Pound found himself in the same situation , having to contend with those who had learned too well or too inflexibly the lessons he himself had taught them : |
| 12 | But Garvey , 40 , has brought a private prosecution against Carr , 33 , alleging Carr assaulted him in the same incident in Middlesbrough Town Hall in October . |
| 13 | I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time . |
| 14 | When the community care Support Force was inaugurated , many SSDs regarded it with the same amount of suspicion and distrust as a bird would a snake . |
| 15 | An old worker , after giving the machine a jaundiced look , turned the handle and tried it with a few roots . |
| 16 | But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four . |
| 17 | Many refugees found themselves in the same position . |
| 18 | Sean recalled : ‘ I suddenly found myself on the same side as the shark and got out of the water as fast as I could . |
| 19 | i found myself in the same place where I 'd been wounded in Easter , 1917 . |
| 20 | One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put . |
| 21 | Uncle Joe subjected me to the same torture and humiliation every time we were alone together — although , thankfully , he never actually went as far as raping me . |
| 22 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 23 | I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris . |
| 24 | ‘ You will not be coming back , ’ he assured her in the same arrogant tone . |
| 25 | ‘ I heard that , ’ she told him in the same language . |
| 26 | I cried out in relief and happiness : I thought I recognised him as a former schoolmate , a boy with whom I used to exchange groans about the maths problems whose solutions so frequently eluded us . |
| 27 | In the church Richard fell to prayer with such absorption that Lady Dalton forbore to disturb him when she entered , but her son recognised him as a former Oxford student . |
| 28 | AN ARMED robber ‘ executed ’ a security guard because he recognised him as a former schoolmate , a court was told yesterday . |
| 29 | They were watching her intently , with a look that disconcerted her and excited her at the same time . |
| 30 | Kohl described the military regime of former president Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte as a " dictatorship " and compared it to the former East German regime headed by Erich Honecker ( whose request for political asylum in Chile had recently been rejected ) . |