Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Léger was shown the works of Picasso and Braque in 1910 by Kahnweiler and met them later the same year . |
| 2 | ‘ We posed them quite a few threats in the first half , ’ said Graham Taylor , while conceding the second belonged to Liverpool . |
| 3 | All the children we spoke to about reviews found them either an unnecessary irrelevance or else an extremely threatening or distressing event . |
| 4 | In the hour before dawn , when the pulsar had risen above the horizon and the sky was still dark , they picked up pulsations at the correct rate — and , as confirmation , found them again the following morning . |
| 5 | Mr Atkinson says he met President Bush just last September , and the President promised him then the full facts would come out . |
| 6 | The moment she encountered him again the old hostility would erupt and this feeling of awareness would vanish . |
| 7 | But they went and found it just the same . |
| 8 | Of course you can well I knew of a girl who married I would n't say she 'd married well when she started out but her husband was enterprising e eventually got himself quite a good job at the at people who print the bank notes so so that they they started off in a prefab and they ended up with a new four bedroom bungalow with central heating at Athorpe Roding . |
| 9 | ‘ She told me much the same as Miss Rose . |
| 10 | I hardly would — you told me only a few minutes ago . ’ |
| 11 | Monsieur le Curé said the sooner we buried them properly the better , he 's not going to tell anyone . |
| 12 | ’ The instincts of Robert Louis Stevenson — that sanguine consumptive with the heart of a child — told him much the same : |
| 13 | Clara , like the others , found that the sausage inspired her with a sense of violent disgust , but she ate it just the same . |
| 14 | I played it probably a million different ways during the days leading up to the recording and what 's on tape is some form of an improvisation on a somewhat generalised idea . |
| 15 | Has all the tedious public work you have done made you any the better ? |
| 16 | Jonas poured them both a small measure of brandy , handed one to Paige , then made himself comfortable again , eyes watchful . |
| 17 | ‘ After you have run a machine you know the best way and we showed them quite a few things . |
| 18 | Then , both quickly and suddenly , he turned to the Reverend-who was now holding before him a photograph , of which he allowed us only the briefest glimpse . |
| 19 | She poured us both a generous tot , and drank hers rather faster than liqueurs are normally drunk , then gasped and blinked as sudden tears started to her eyes . |
| 20 | He went to the bar in the corner of the lounge and he poured us both a stiff whisky and soda . |
| 21 | Need a the , these Fiestas , but they never get them right at the , the bloke I works with got one exactly the same as this does exactly ten miles and it cuts out on him . |
| 22 | Cos he chucked one away the other day because it had a little chip in it . |
| 23 | The clerical representatives were a formidable number — forty-two diocesan proctors ( two from each diocese ) and twenty-three cathedral proctors ( including Bath as well as Wells , and Coventry as well as Lichfield ) — and with the rest of the clergy they constituted something over a third of the whole parliament . |
| 24 | I heard him only a short while ago coming out of the bathroom . |
| 25 | And yet , self-denied , he was still dominant , rampant male , she the one reduced to mindless begging for the release she now knew could only ever be temporary because she was an addict already , enslaved by him as he fed her again the fatal taste , the bitter-sweet of his passion , and her own . |
| 26 | But he kissed her just the same . |
| 27 | There 's no record for Chris Griffiths — but he enjoyed it just the same . |
| 28 | Another 36% liked it quite a lot , but almost as many men enjoyed it only a little , not very much or not at all ( 7% of our sample say they ca n't remember how they felt ) . |
| 29 | Then followed what even the phlegmatic Daily Telegraph termed ‘ sensational cricket . ’ |
| 30 | The big guy hit me just the one time . |