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

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1 I got through quite a few bits and pieces that was
2 ‘ But I have n't done anything — except be an absolute misery , ’ she added honestly as she realised for perhaps the first time what a wet blanket she had been .
3 At first the Palace asked for just a thousand exclusive ties to be made .
4 It also made for quite a wet ride as the Seayak ‘ bobbed ’ downwards .
5 Erm we also know that base five formwork is up so we started on base five as soon as we can , put as many resources into it as we can we mentioned earlier that er having five hundred people in there made life quite congested but we decided the more people that helped in there the better and er our objective was to get the er wall steelwork up .
6 This occurred in both the proximal and distal colon .
7 Christians of different denominations feel much closer together now — at the parish level — than they used to even a few years ago .
8 In extensive talks in New York and Washington over the weekend , the European Commission and US government also radically disagreed on how a transatlantic steel subsidy code should be policed and enforced .
9 When he was joined in the Test team by Desmond Haynes , one of the most dependable and successful of all opening partnerships was created , and as the senior member in his late twenties Greenidge matured at just the right time .
10 She was told that , unless insemination occurred at exactly the right time each month , her acid levels would kill off the donor sperm .
11 Russell estimated the population of England at just over 21 million in 1377 , and suggested that it rose by nearly a million between then and 1545 .
12 THE North American arm of BMW , the German motor manufacturer , announced yesterday that sales in March rose by nearly a fifth from the same month last year to 5,500 cars .
13 Last year it made a FFr10m ( $1.9m ) net profit on sales of FFr175m , and the number of visitors rose by almost a third , to 1.3m .
14 The Rowdies group provided by far the widest range of available roles , and it is with a discussion of these that we start .
15 The images lingered for only a brief time before changing , the Retreat demolished in the storm of stones and a new structure raised in the whirl : the Tower of the Tabula Rasa .
16 It is possible to infer from these passages and others in The State of the Prisons that Howard believed in both the good man theory , and in control by the courts .
17 Teesside counsellor Cricket Kemp tells of a couple who suffered from just a simple misunderstanding .
18 Well Christopher came in here the other day and he says that cake is
19 Cos a I I 've got the contracts right in the Body Shop , we got Karen she used to work in Superdrug , and she came in there the other day and I 'm saying , och , do you know Michelle ?
20 It seems likely that the masonry of the chimney 's lower section came from either a demolished house or another mill , as the quality of workmanship is of a higher standard than would have been strictly necessary .
21 The majority of his 49 international goals came from outside the 18-yard box , and they turned many a game .
22 The sound came from inside the golden orb of hair .
23 came from quite a wide area way up in the hills Airedale and all that area , at the foot of the Cleveland hills
24 He was born in seventeen sixty , in the middle of France , really , erm , and he came from quite a large family .
25 You could n't maybe do the ploughing and that but if you were out spreading dung you or neeps you 'd to just the same as the men and the the man may man might be getting maybe about twenty pound in the half a year and the boys maybe only getting twelve or something like that .
26 She recognised at once the well-built woman who turned from some chore at the kitchen sink as the woman who had opened the door to her last Friday .
27 It was along one such barren track that Val came across more the gaunt pillars of volcanic rock , ‘ They were like giant effigies presiding over their parched and desolate kingdom .
28 He murdered at least a dozen young men before burying their bodies in and around his home .
29 It was the best lesson I 've ever had , and it came at just the right time . ’
30 He never came to a conclusion for Angelina and Oliver came at just the wrong moment , just as the fish required the hand of the maître .
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