Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | You 've caught me out this time . |
2 | The chief of the Near East Division had sat him down one day to try to teach him about Iran , but he doubted it had gone in . |
3 | I mean I had them in my erm handbag and I think I must have just chucked them out this morning |
4 | He still considered himself something of a failed journalist ( NME amongst others , had turned him down five times in the early years ) and he often expressed a desire to use his new found influence to move into spasmodic fits of journalese . |
5 | Let the fire go out last night and we 've had it out all day have n't we ? |
6 | Well I have n't , have n't had it out this year . |
7 | unless it 's the but er if you 've forgot it back good reason for handing it over so yeah I mean I , I think that well I 've given you the , the , the strength if you like we can see it , perhaps a little bit more open questioning would n't go amiss would it ? |
8 | And he ca n't think too badly of me or he would n't of invited me back this year . |
9 | And they 'd all packed them up this morning . |
10 | He 'd use it to identify and locate all the landmarks which he had stared up at during his exhausting explorations , now seen from a very different perspective ; he knew the names of all the streets where the distant , anonymous towers of the banks and finance companies were sited , having worn himself out many times by walking along them , fascinated by the scenes glimpsed behind their mirrored , darkened or tinted glass windows and walls . |
11 | It is recognized that in practice ‘ equality in equilibrium ’ is most unlikely to be reached , since well before such processes could have fully played themselves out other changes may well have disrupted the system in other ways . |
12 | ‘ He 's asked me over next week again . |
13 | It begins to look as if his obsession has led him down evil paths . ’ |
14 | So your mum 's cut it up or you 've cut it up this time just between the two of us and you 've cut it into two halves you 've got half there and I 've got another half . |
15 | Nigel had been a very heavy smoker but had given it up eight years earlier , as had I. |
16 | Well done Kieran he had already worked his out good boy . |
17 | and I , John 's put his up three times since . |
18 | ‘ Well ! ’ he said , ‘ I hope you 'll forgive me for having knocked you down that day . ’ |
19 | He had taken her out one day , her and Mama , and when he had handed her out of the big Daimler , her papa 's pride , he had slipped a note into her hand , inviting her to meet him when his duties were over , and go out with him — perhaps for a ride on the Brooklyn Ferry . |
20 | but I could 've put it off another day |
21 | After testing for the role when he executive-produced We 're No Angels , he has taken it up full time , setting up his own company Tribeca Productions and building his own mini-studio in New York . |
22 | This time his powers of concentration were not helped by the fact that on a hot and humid Sunday afternoon in the Bois de Boulogne he was feeling awful : he had been wasting in order to ride Beaver II at nine stone ten pounds later in the afternoon , and was severely debilitated by a stomach upset which had kept him up all night . |
23 | ‘ Tyres could have really held me back this year if I did n't have the right ones . ’ |