Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mistakes of this sort made the movement many enemies and hastened its demise to the fairground , and having one 's bumps read for sixpence . |
| 2 | Virginia fixed him with a patient , expectant gaze across the desk , marvelling at her ability to stay calm and poised whenever the name of Guy Sterne entered the conversation these days . |
| 3 | It was worth a looksee anyway and there was bound to be somebody around to ask ; a poacher or an itinerant hop-picker or whatever sort of person wandered the countryside these days . |
| 4 | They found the spot several years later . ’ |
| 5 | We found the place some days past . |
| 6 | Scrambling for growth , America 's airlines changed the way all airlines operate . |
| 7 | Lowe visited the island several times after his return to Britain , and in 1874 he and his wife were lost at sea when the SS Liberia sank en route for Madeira . |
| 8 | Some of those men visited the shop many times . |
| 9 | When she found a lot more shoots in different places , she decided they needed more air and light , so she began to pull out the thick grass around them . |
| 10 | Focus on the Scouser who suffered the nightmare all players fear |
| 11 | I told the club those gates had rusted and would cause an injury , but would they bloody listen ? ) |
| 12 | The amusing story spread like wild-fire through the district and tradition maintains that it impressed the fertile imagination of the young Robert Burns , who was nine years old at the time , and that he recalled the incident many years later when he was creating his masterpiece , the poem Tam O' Shanter , which is set in the ruined kirk . |
| 13 | He received a ban some years ago for losing his temper while playing in that veritable hive of provocation known as Australian grade cricket , and this latest ruckus began , apparently , when Marcus Wight ( whose father , the umpire , Peter , should have taught him better ) proffered a few choice words of his won upon dismissing Ramprakash in the first innings . |
| 14 | The authority 's predecessor river board granted a consent some years ago with a number of parameters : 20 BOD , 100 p.p.m. suspended solids ( relaxed from the usual 30 ) , and various metals , including zinc , consented to the standard 0.5 p.p.m . |
| 15 | It rammed the boat several times and disgorged human remains before tearing its way free . |
| 16 | I walked the glen many times , and looked back on the few trees , lying far in the hollow , that grow near the place where the massacre is said to have begun ; while on either side were deep rock-lined , tree and fern-fringed chasms , leading into seclusions and bleak mountain summits , one could spend long hours exploring . |
| 17 | Neisser ( 1982 ) also argued that it was not necessary to propose a separate memory system for flashbulb memories , he suggested that rehearsal was the most important component of the phenomenon , noting particularly that such memories are not necessarily veridical , instead he emphasised the role such memories may play as a connection between personal and public history . |
| 18 | Dad thanked the man several times but he just grunted and left . |
| 19 | We bought a fridge for our caravan that developed a fault several months after the guarantee expired . |
| 20 | I spent a while some years ago just improving my chordal knowledge ; I just sat down and learned it , because I was playing with players who were a lot more advanced than I was , and because I was doing a lot of sessions and stuff . |
| 21 | The annual outing is organised by a committee under the chairmanship of John Moores junior , whose father started the event many years ago . |
| 22 | Inmos admits that the year 's delay lost the company several customers . |
| 23 | Inmos admits that the year 's delay lost the company several customers . |
| 24 | I am sure no WEA tutor would pass open criticism on the essays … this habit lost the class several students this year . |
| 25 | Gillroy and Davies hit the roof several times before managing to strap themselves down in the cabin , where all they could do was sit ashen-faced and pray . |
| 26 | I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on . |
| 27 | She repeated the exercise several times until she got two identical measurements and then the customer went home , satisfied and cured . |
| 28 | He repeated the plan several times to make sure Endill understood what he had to do . |
| 29 | She repeated the experiment several times . |
| 30 | Katherine tapped the letter several times with her fountain-pen . |