Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I said to him , I thought they er were fifty pence and he said I 've picked you out the biggest and the best . |
| 2 | I 've pursued him down the disappearing paths of my own psyche . |
| 3 | HER REPLY on August 21 appears to have tipped him over a political brink . |
| 4 | And if I 've hung his coats up once I 've hung up , I 've hung them up a hundred times , he 's got a coat hanger on the back of the coat hook on the back of the door |
| 5 | I 'd seen him around a few times . |
| 6 | Should n't have really warmed it up the first time . |
| 7 | Do you know she said she was n't coming to our wedding right up to the last moment , and when she did consent to come she behaved as if all the guests on my side were mud beneath her feet , though our family 's always been very well thought of around here , as I 'm sure you know , and my father could have bought her up a hundred times and not noticed the difference , and what was her father in New Zealand I wonder , some sheep dipper or other I would n't mind betting — you know the type that went to the colonies then — or perhaps he was a convict ! ’ |
| 8 | Cos I 'd cleaned it up the other day cos it had mildew on the bottom of it ! |
| 9 | This has set me back a few weeks , that 's all . |
| 10 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 11 | ‘ Partridge , who acts as guide , as boots , postilion , and boatman , at the Salutation Inn , might have brought us down an easier descent ; but as he had been out with a chaise all night , he was perhaps induced , from fatigue , to take us the nearest way . |
| 12 | The route they had taken into the underground passages had led them along a wide , high-ceilinged passageway that was easy to negotiate . |
| 13 | Had Liverpool been playing Arsenal next Wednesday would Dalglish have ruled him out a full five days before the game ? |
| 14 | Moments later he had led her up a short stairway , through the heavily bolted door at the top , and out of the building , and Isabel had recognised the alley leading to the wash-houses and pressing-rooms , which lay between the towering keep and the curtain wall . |
| 15 | You must have touched her up the wrong way . |
| 16 | The Dalek Killer 's led us up a blind alley . ’ |
| 17 | The shabby ghosts of the Forster coterie waft out once more to pool their romantic gossip ; Forster himself shuffles forward to complain that Joe 's doings with one brawny menial have so put him off the lower classes that he has been obliged to travel first rather than third-class on a railway journey , and once again the air is full of that peculiarly spiritless twitter about guardsmen , homosexual tea parties and cure for pubic lice . |
| 18 | decimals , cos you 're supposed to know about decimals as well , so do that one on your calculator now , I know you 've just , you 've just worked it out the long way , so you just , and you do n't even need the one point nought , you can just put one , and then take away point , nought point two five . |
| 19 | He slid the ramrod out , jammed it down the long barrel , then pulled it free . |