Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [det] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 They had n't checked them all at the time , and then they had forgotten .
2 He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon .
3 He has placed them both on the sofa under the magnificent painting of a Ramayana demon by his Thai protegé , not facing one another across his huge desk , to indicate that this is an intimate and informal interview , not to be taken too seriously whatever she says .
4 Look , I 've booked us all into the Italian place round the corner .
5 When we arrived at the hotel I found that he 'd booked us both into the same double room .
6 Tremayne would doubtless have lent me some of the quarter-advance due at the end of the month but my lack was my own choice , and as long as I could survive as I was , I would n't ask .
7 Nor would it have been possible to ask , nor even to rely on any information which might have been forthcoming , since Amabel , who always retired to bed for the duration of her own " monthly curse " had said nothing more to the point than , " Darling , I must beg of you never to speak of this to anyone , when Gemma at the age of fourteen had first seen evidence of hers .
8 Room service had sent fruit for breakfast and Ellwood had skinned one half of a peach .
9 right so I mean there 's , there 's obviously more need to be thought through on that and the video I have n't , oh I have done something more about the video
10 His brother has lent him some for the time being , but Mr Szuluk says without proper clothes , he ca n't get a job .
11 Even Crump himself might be better meeting his Judgement now , after a life of useful business , than later when the disturbances of retirement — already foreshadowed — would most likely have made him less of a man than he was now , less happy , less useful , perhaps even diminished , by turbulent pettiness , in the very qualities which might now ensure his redemption .
12 She has made him more of an Expressionist than he really was but she has realised an essential truth : that Heartbreak House is a deeply poetic play about the death of liberal hopes and the cracking-apart of a civilisation .
13 So I wished I 'd done it all in the first place , now I 've got to do it .
14 Still , forget Andrew Motion , I could have written it all in a sentence .
15 McQuaid felt for the authority he had slowly made his own over the years , an authority that had outgrown Moran ‘ s .
16 Not Fat Paul — Fat Paul , with his full-breasted bulk , his impassive sloped slab of a face , his parched pub rug , and the cruel blond eyebrows which give the eyes themselves the glint of a veteran ferret who has seen it all in the hare-traps and rat-pits .
17 Some of the material I have n't seen , of course , because the government has n't even shown me all of the material .
18 I 've watched them all through the week see .
19 I 've watched them all through the week .
20 she said Joe would of got them all at the top where you could n't see them and things like that , I said well you wo n't get builders doing that
21 Well they 've got them all outside the erm lock gates now .
22 You should have told them that about the poppy seeds .
23 Rex has told me all about the Tyrrell Society and their activities a dozen times if he 's told me once .
24 She 's told me all about the walls .
25 If you 'd told me this in the make-up room when you came to have your hair cut , you 'd have saved yourself a needless journey .
26 Ah 'm sure he will have told ye that on the phone . ’
27 No I would but I would have told you that on the phone .
28 I could have told you that in the first place .
29 ‘ So Ockleton 's told you all about the Tyrrell Society , has he ?
30 I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight .
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