Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She handed two packets and a wafer to the boy , who had finished wiping the mattresses down and had leant them up against the wall to dry . |
| 2 | It was the Officer who had turfed me out of the church yesterday when I was playing the bagpipes . |
| 3 | He had joined them out of the press in the midst of a guard of taciturn Merkut troopers who were economical in their employment of the brute force necessary to clear their master 's path . |
| 4 | From the beginning of their history , the amphibians were hunters , preying on the worms , insects and other invertebrates that had preceded them on to the land . |
| 5 | To the community at Canterbury he was a saintly but somewhat ineffective archbishop , who had let them down in the matter of the primacy of their church . |
| 6 | It 's the inappropriate nature of my clothing that has consistently let me down through the years . |
| 7 | I never give up on people — even those who have let me down in the past . |
| 8 | The teacher claimed that the boy put the forceps in his hand , but the pupil said Mr Harrison had picked them up from a desk . |
| 9 | I had this idea they had booked me in for a Caesarean because I 'm small , but had n't told me . |
| 10 | She marvelled even more though when Cara 's basic efficiency surfaced as she declared , ‘ By my calculations you 'll still have time to get down to Dover after you 've dropped me off at the airport . ’ |
| 11 | Oxford United are facing their own big challenge … four defeats in a row has dropped them back into the bottom half of the table … last home win was this one against Millwall … tomorrow they should … they must dish out the same treatment to struggling Southend |
| 12 | Do you mean we 've let you off for the evening ? |
| 13 | He 's picked you out of the pack and thinks you can win the Open . ’ |
| 14 | She took in breath to scream , but it had caught her up like a shred of paper . |
| 15 | She flushed , as if he had caught her out in a social solecism . |
| 16 | Ianthe realised from his triumphant expression that he had caught her out in a mistake and waited with resignation to hear what it was . |
| 17 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
| 18 | Until now he had always picked her up from the hospital . |
| 19 | What 's more , who 'd have believed he 'd picked her up in a wine bar ? |
| 20 | He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago . |
| 21 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 22 | Loads of people had let him down over the years , so I did n't want to be one of them . |
| 23 | The woman who had let him out of the darkness of the birth-cave into the light . ’ |
| 24 | He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki . |
| 25 | ‘ Actually , there 's quite a good exchange on those lines in Catch-22 , the movie — much underrated film — which is n't in the book , so Buck Henry must have written it , where Nately 's been killed and Yossarian 's been to Milo 's whorehouse to see Nately 's whore and Milo 's picked him up in the half-track and he 's saying Nately died a rich man ; he had such-and-such a number of shares in M&M enterprises , and Yossarian says — ’ |
| 26 | Armed with this information , they would n't have picked him out on an identity parade . |
| 27 | In his summing-up , Mr Justice Leonard said the case against Kearney hinged on his identification by Mr Lewin , who had picked him out at an identity parade . |
| 28 | He had carried her along on the groundswell of his own forceful personality , but now that the ride was over she had time to wonder if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 29 | Had carried him off into the mountains , in this harsh summer of storms and floods ? |
| 30 | Dinah felt herself trembling ; this was the man who had libelled Paul and herself , had made their early years wretched , had hounded her out of the only world she knew . |