Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was sewn with coarse grass and carefully mended with leather patches stitched on with the same coarse grass . |
| 2 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 3 | The only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott . |
| 4 | The hunt itself moved on after a few minutes , leaving the terrier man to flush out the fox . |
| 5 | Fisons enjoyed another buoyant session , helped along by a few comforting words from broker Hoare Govett , who hosted a presentation to institutions on Wednesday . |
| 6 | Cider and culinary apple orchards have gone the same way , all helped along until a few years ago by government grants to grub up the old trees and replace them with easy to spray , prune and pick bush types . |
| 7 | First year pruning will take each stem of a bush rose down to no more than 3–4 inches ( 8–10cm ) , cutting where possible to suitable outward-pointing buds . |
| 8 | Poured on to the plane , alone , Burton was humped for thirteen hours across the Atlantic , assuaged by alcohol ; stopped over for a few drinks in New York and then taken on an eleven-hour trip to Los Angeles which was made tolerable by more alcohol . |
| 9 | And within was empty darkness , fenced off by no more than a ridge of soil . |
| 10 | We stopped off at a few cafes on the way so that we could stretch our legs . |
| 11 | ZOOLOGIST Terry Walton stopped off for a few days in India in 1967 . |
| 12 | Miguel must have rung the policía , because their car drew up at the same time as Miguel 's jeep . |
| 13 | Macho Jose lined up for the same run at Leganes yesterday — and was wounded by another horn . |
| 14 | For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial . |
| 15 | Over to the west , the allied fires petered out at the same point ; yet Thiercelin fancied he could hear the rumble of distant movement . |
| 16 | He called a sudden halt to his crowded agenda at lunchtime and crashed out for a few hours in the adjacent chamber , throwing the timetable into disarray . |
| 17 | He di , he 's , I think he 's the only person who never moved out of the same place . |
| 18 | The tent is extremely stable especially in very high winds as I found out on a few wet and wild nights . |
| 19 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 20 | The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy . |
| 21 | He just came on in the same purposeful manner and Maggie backed away , a little alarmed and suddenly remembering why she was here . |
| 22 | He drove on for a few minutes , the headlights cleaving a way through the darkness . |
| 23 | Inevitably it came down to the same couple of answers — her mortgage , her job . |
| 24 | Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week . |
| 25 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 26 | Devon and Cornwall 's canals connected agricultural areas with the goods they needed which came in through the many small ports . |
| 27 | Now , obviously I 'm not going to talk about profits from the T V division just now , because Thames only came in at the half year , and we 're not including any profits from B Sky B in the half year , but it 's likely that we 'll take some de-loan stock interest in at the year end . |
| 28 | But Anna did not talk to him , because Sarah came in at the same time . |
| 29 | The latter came in to the same platform and so two trains were in the same section , in conflict with Rule B. |
| 30 | Er , the figures in paragraph five are shown there , but we had a recognition of that additional duty , and a variety of other minor changes which I wo n't go into this morning , that came through at the same time . |