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 . |