Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He appeared to recognize Stephen as quickly as Stephen recognized him , but the dark wedge face registered this only in a tightening of the mouth and a jerk of the chin .
2 I found that yesterday in the erm doll 's pram .
3 Arnold Bennett caught this splendidly in the story of Denry Machin , an ambitious and well-off young councillor , who brought back a local footballing hero to the town at his own expense .
4 The boatman inspected this critically for a moment , but then , unlike Owen , seemed satisfied .
5 There was a stack of timber being unloaded from the Dock and the wind threw that all over the place .
6 Fred Sedgwick , a teacher , captured this recently in an article describing a case conference he attended ( Guardian , 28 January 1989 ) .
7 There once was a bear , an ugly and deformed creature , who hit from the world and lived all alone in a wood .
8 When the two Highlanders stood , he sauntered up and touched each gently on the chest .
9 We observed this clearly in the Greater London and South-East England labour market for secretarial staff and in the South East England labour market for computer programmers and analysts .
10 They achieved this splendidly in the Scottish Cup semi-final and since Hearts allowed it to happen to them we had a memorably ghastly match .
11 Butler , as Minister in Churchill 's caretaker government , authorized the publication of ‘ The Nation 's Schools ’ , and Ellen Wilkinson followed this later in the same year with The Organisation of Secondary Education .
12 Suddenly he shoved this aside with a groan , snatched up a clean sheet of paper , he wrote :
13 He carried a silver-topped malacca cane and he waved this vaguely in the direction of the strolling crowds all around them .
14 And I took that straight to the barracks , and they accepted it !
15 She contrasted this unfavourably with the simple needs of the Masai and tried for a while to live on their diet of milk and maize meal .
16 Ecologists studied the natural environment , but often saw this only as a means of helping the human race to manage its interference more effectively .
17 In 1973 the Fair Trading Act brought these together within the purview of a single body , the newly created Office of Fair Trading , to be overseen by a civil servant , the Director General of Fair Trading .
18 And though the surprise early closing of the bar peeved more than one punter ( and certainly one reviewer ) , the blasting semi-hardcore rendition of ‘ Bad Motorcycle ’ sent all home with a smile of their lips .
19 And though the surprise early closing of the bar peeved more than one punter ( and certainly one reviewer ) , the blasting semi-hardcore rendition of ‘ Bad Motorcycle ’ sent all home with a smile of their lips .
20 Andrew Liney , Davern Lambert and Mark Stanley kept a tight hold in the middle of defence , and Simon Nice and Darren Miles gave little away on the flanks .
21 Vocalist Rob gave little away in the title department but if the tracks were from the forthcoming Ferment album then we 're in for a treat .
22 The problem is in fact that 's exa in fact I did that right at the start , right ?
23 ‘ How much difference would it make if you cleared this away for a few minutes — that 's all ? ’ persisted Huy .
24 However , after several years of poor livestock production , a record 24,500,000 head were reported in 1989 ; the government attributed this partly to a contract and leasing system introduced in 1988 [ see also p. 36704 ] , by which rural workers contracted to supply specified products for wages , with their collective or the state farm supplying cattle , implements , machinery and land .
25 One owner found that his cat did this only on the floor of a new extension he had built on to the side of his house .
26 Parish council chairman Gillian Woodcraft said : ‘ We discussed this right at the beginning , and the parish council decided to retain it .
27 Furthermore , they had experienced the development and then degeneration of one major unifying royal line , the Merovings , and replaced this finally with a most vigorous governing family , the Arnulfings , who produced the great emperor Charlemagne .
28 Thus , both before and after amendment the matters of complaint in Schedule 12 embraced some only of the services a society was authorised to provide and omitted both surveys and valuations of land and land services .
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