Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lowell had heard them a few times before on the Sundays when life was normal and they were just background music at the commencement of an ordinary day . |
| 2 | When an animal is brought in , especially an otter which is very nervous , we 've taught them the basic techniques of how to save them . |
| 3 | He 's given me a few jokes but only ones he used a long time ago ! ’ |
| 4 | That 's okay , she 's also given me the right words to use to put it through urgently , okay , cos I mean you , I know you have n't exchanged yet , but you want to do that fairly quickly . |
| 5 | They 've given me the main facts . |
| 6 | Wonderful Members of Parliament , who , little more than twenty years before , had made themselves merry with the wild railroad theories of engineers , and given them the liveliest rubs in cross-examination , went down into the north with their watches in their hands , and sent on messages before by the electric telegraph , to say that they were coming Night and day the conquering engines rumbled at their distant work , or advancing smoothly to their journey 's end , and gliding like tame dragons into the allotted corners grooved out to the inch for their reception , stood bubbling and trembling there , making the walls quake , as if they were dilating with the secret knowledge of great powers yet unsuspected in them , and strong purposes not yet achieved . |
| 7 | Their record of service has won them a British Waterways competition . |
| 8 | The essay , on ‘ The Dangers of Smoking ’ , had cost Hank a number of Sundays of hard work , and he estimated that he must have smoked at least eight packs of cigarettes while writing it , but to his astonishment it had won him a hundred dollars . |
| 9 | The sort of thing that would have delighted him a few months ago — he would have chuckled over its witty irreverence , and imagined with pleasure Clare 's shock and embarrassment had she come across it . |
| 10 | She rushed to answer , thinking that it might be Barney , but it was a young journalist from the Gloucester Gazette who had interviewed her a few months previously when her latest book was published . |
| 11 | he s won us a 2 championships and a 4th place in 4 years . |
| 12 | Fortunately Pat had lent me a few things so at least I was clean . |
| 13 | Such altered viruses can transduce non-replicating cells , including differentiated epithelial cells of the respiratory tract and elsewhere , and this has made them the chosen vectors for genetic therapy of cystic fibrosis . |
| 14 | Would Sue ( she hardly knew her , after all , had only met her a few minutes ago ) really let her share the little bubble of love that sealed her and Pete up together and away from the rest of the world ? |
| 15 | I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me ! |
| 16 | She 'd met him a few times , usually when he was drunk . |
| 17 | She 'd only met him a few times , but it had been easy for Julie to see that Ross Wyndham was even more Leo-like than his wife . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , I 've met him a few times , ’ she admitted . |
| 19 | She belongs , surely , where he had seen her a thousand times as he came out of Happy Homes , just above the end pinnacle of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel . |
| 20 | ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known . |
| 21 | I had seen her a few times since and remembered her lively face , her large , intelligent eyes which were always looking here , looking there as if one moment 's rest would deny her some crumb of life . |
| 22 | You 've done it a hundred times before . ’ |
| 23 | You 've done it a thousand times already , but you do it again , just for something to do . |
| 24 | Listening , as you become more comfortable and you become , you 've done it a few times you know what you 're gon na have to say and then you , you er , you listen more carefully to the answers . |
| 25 | Except to myself , I 've said it a hundred times to myself . " |
| 26 | He had said it a hundred times over the past blissful hour together , and each time the sound of it had been even sweeter . |
| 27 | She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women . |
| 28 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
| 29 | Only after that , and with a few facts from your GP , plus half a page on your stresses during the last five years — I had to overflow onto the back of my page and with a little encouragement could easily have made it a 100,000 words — can you go through the eye of the needle . |
| 30 | We 've given you a few hints how to say them , dance to them , put great big eight foot wide papier mâché masks on to do them if you want . |