Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shirley was a good runner , and she caught Heather up a few yards from the fire . |
| 2 | To have released Meehan from seven years of wrongful imprisonment , recommended a free pardon for him , and then to have arrested and charged Waddell for the same crime would have required a greater degree of resolution than either of them possessed . |
| 3 | ‘ Look here ! ’ exclaimed Peter at the same moment . |
| 4 | Tall and elegant , her silver-grey hair styled into a smooth bob , she stood in the doorway and coolly surveyed Rachel with the same steady , grey-eyed gaze of her son . |
| 5 | She affected Luke in the same way as he did her . |
| 6 | Anne studied Robyn for a few moments . |
| 7 | The curator of the Jeffery Museum scorned Mentmore as no more than ‘ a heterogeneous accumulation of prestigious loot ’ , while Lord Vaizey scathingly described the contents of Calke as ‘ skiploads of junk ’ . |
| 8 | The crowd were settling in nicely to this when Ray ‘ Preston ’ joined John for a few numbers . |
| 9 | Tree swallows had just arrived in Hobart on their annual migrations , and were ‘ particularly numerous in the streets ’ ; wood swallows dived among the paddocks and pasturelands on nearby estates ; fire-tailed finches and flame-breasted robins were busy nest-building in gardens and orchards — ‘ I have even taken its nest ’ , remarked Gould about the latter , ‘ from a shelving bank in the streets of Hobart' — while dusky robins perched on garden railings . |
| 10 | Erika followed Karl with a few lithe strides . |
| 11 | ‘ Where 's Prescott ? ’ asked Trentham after a few minutes had passed . |
| 12 | But it projected enthusiasm , delight and knowledge right through the television screen and it made Peter within a few months well-known to millions of people who had never imagined that they had any interest in natural history . |
| 13 | Pickering said : ‘ Dave Mackay did a great job for Derby in his mid-thirties and we saw Robson as the same type of leader . ’ |
| 14 | Elinor said , ‘ I saw Sam for a few minutes , darling . |
| 15 | I sent Poole to the same chemist to fetch some more chemicals . |
| 16 | Daniel became free of the Haberdashers ' Company in 1632 , and apprenticed Samuel to the same trade in 1634 . |
| 17 | Pelagius thought Jerome 's bitter hostility to marriage akin to Manichaean dualism , and his disciple Julian of Eclanum — with less justice — accused Augustine of the same betrayal . |
| 18 | Joyfully , the Marchants elected Kitty to the same category of quaint but endearing knick-knack which they had devised for her son . |
| 19 | The seven-strong French diplomatic contingent left Kuwait at the same time , thus reducing the Western diplomatic corps there to two British and 10 US staff . |
| 20 | ‘ Down , Snappy ! ’ said Eleanor in the same dead tone she had used when Melissa first arrived . |
| 21 | As with Dubček in the 1960s , the Soviets endorsed the new Hungarian leaders of 1956 , János Kádár and Imre Nagy , who replaced Rákosi on the latter 's death . |
| 22 | Well I think what Mr is really saying is that the Conservative round Dorset , in er , the first sort of , I do n't know , six decades of this cen this century were rather more sensible than the Conservatives who ran Wiltshire at the same time , because they made sure they acquired some assets they could flog for development , and put themselves in this happy position , which the ones in Wiltshire had obviously failed to do . |
| 23 | ‘ We are skylined here , ’ said Tagan after a few moments . |