Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun sg] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far I 've really enjoyed my life well no major complaints anyway , and so I 'd like to bring my children up here enjoying their life as well . |
| 2 | Her voice trailed away as she realised , from the other woman 's beaming smile of relief , that she 'd inadvertently given her hostess quite the wrong impression . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've missed my castaway rather a lot , you know . ’ |
| 4 | If only he had pushed his advantage home the night the Dorking brothers gave their party ( ‘ The Night of the Hundred Cans ' , as it was still known in Wimbledon ) . |
| 5 | Now that David has decided he wants to stay and fight for his place , he will have made his job all the harder . |
| 6 | If you have done your part correctly the subordinate should by now have all the information necessary to make up his own mind . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , he 's in the position whereby , although I have got my work yet the problem I face is not just now , it 's come September , he is in a new school , he 's going to have new people , there 's new teachers , there 's new rules , there 's new policies . |
| 8 | ‘ Well ’ , she agrees reluctantly , ‘ I 've got my tennis together a lot more this year , especially after the first three months . |
| 9 | She stole a final critical glance at her face , mentally awarding herself top marks for skilful covering of the tear-stains which had marred her skin just a few minutes before . |
| 10 | Had the plaintiff sued his brother then the action would have failed on the grounds of volenti . |
| 11 | But he seemed to think because you 'd had your stroke almost a year ago that I should be over it ; his exact words were that I was looking for sympathy . |
| 12 | You 've got a golf course , you 've got quite a few things round here , you 've even , you 've got your school just a bit , you know up past . |
| 13 | The very thought had crossed his mind only the day before , when he contemplated giving up doctoring , as she kept telling him to . |
| 14 | The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university . |
| 15 | They had cost her uncle just a few cents each and were supposed to be the plates and bowls Chinese coolies ate their rice from while they sat with their rickshaws , waiting for trade , in old Pekin . |
| 16 | It was that dream again — the one which had haunted her sleep almost every night for the past three weeks . |
| 17 | I 've never seen him in a flap , or anything less than pleasant whether dealing with an actor who 's completely shaved his head only a few days before shooting a strict continuity commercial , or calming down the ‘ real ’ Rene Goodman who has rung the Sun to complain that the latest BT commercial takes her name in vain , and people keep asking if she 's getting divorced . |
| 18 | He had finished his piece over an hour ago and the night was wearing away towards dawn . |
| 19 | He has taken his obsession just a little bit too far . ’ |
| 20 | and the thingo 's gobbled up his card as he said , well if it has n't gobbled your card then no problem . |
| 21 | At that time the party seemed to have many of the characteristics of a party which did not expect to win elections : it had changed its leadership only a few weeks before the general election was called , Lansbury having resigned and been replaced by Attlee on a temporary basis ; and it suffered from a good deal of internal factionalism , and found its major policy demand — collective security through the League of Nations — ‘ scooped ’ by Stanley Baldwin , the Prime Minister . |