Example sentences of "[det] [coord] [vb past] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum , Tim is making me drop this and hurt the fish . |
| 2 | Kelly understood this and played the game as well as anyone . |
| 3 | The prior broke this and lifted the lid . |
| 4 | Their supervisor noted this and investigated the situation . |
| 5 | This attracted the attention of the local landowning family who were not at all happy with this and threatened the founders . |
| 6 | Four pairs of eyes fastened momentarily on this and absorbed the fact that they had been cheated . |
| 7 | Many Iranians around the Shah believed that the British resented this and blamed the Shah for it . |
| 8 | He was always extremely proud of this and made a point of being known as Dr Dresser . |
| 9 | They would has/e swum naked only Rufus 's father had discovered them doing this and made a fuss out of all proportion to the offence , if offence it was . |
| 10 | Development through Drama seemed to provide just this and became a set text worldwide , but as with most formulae , the recommended practice often does not quite match the philosophy . |
| 11 | Getting out to open the passenger door for her , he noticed that , in contrast to Francesca , she expected this and accepted the courtesy gratefully . |
| 12 | Scott seemed satisfied by this and slipped the magazine free from his own pistol , jamming in the full one he 'd taken from Hitch 's Beretta . |
| 13 | ‘ But the former River Authorities knew this and shut an eye to it . ’ |
| 14 | Blotted this and handed the whole to Cornelius Murphy . |
| 15 | Mr Ibuka , a honorary chairman , popped into the room , saw this and remembered a project on developing lightweight portable headphones going on elsewhere in the building . |
| 16 | The permanent secretary , Sir Peter Thornton , saw the sense of this and gave the idea his blessing . |
| 17 | The defendant agreed to this and obtained a licence but later refused to pay the charge . |
| 18 | Panic seemed attractive but pointless , this baby was going to have to be born within 24 hours now that the waters had gone , and the sooner we accepted this and welcomed the baby , the better . |
| 19 | The civilian in charge was philosophical about this and recognized the limitations . |
| 20 | Ondaatje perceived this and described the book as being ‘ far nastier and more frightening ’ than Flowers For Hitler ; but the choice of words is unjust : there is nothing nasty or frightening about honest observation . |
| 21 | During the hearing , he claimed that Chapman and the directors knew of this and accused the manager of lying when he told the commission he did not know . |
| 22 | Herodotus says that a rich Lydian called Pythios tried to get his son exempted from the draft by entertaining the king magnificently ; but the king had the young man sliced in half and made the army march between the pieces ( Hdt. vii.27f . ) . |
| 23 | Hating it , she drank half and left the rest standing in its cup on a window sill . |
| 24 | Shelley cut a grapefruit in half and squeezed the juice . |
| 25 | Pascoe threw a punch and missed , then threw another and felt the connection travel to the point of his elbow . |
| 26 | The defendants were aware of this but took no steps to keep the children out . |
| 27 | Nice chap and he teaches creative writing in Glasgow , used to be a teacher then a teacher trainer and then I think took early retirement and he does this but made the point that he simply uses it for extra income for pleasure and interest as opposed I suppose to a way of writing you know so |
| 28 | They did not have to isolate zinc metal to do this but used the cementation process described on page 76 . |
| 29 | This satisfied few but left the way open for the Bolsheviks who soon controlled the army and all communications and transport in Petrograd . |
| 30 | But my education made things harder for me as a soldier , paradoxically , for I thought too much and questioned the wisdom of those in command . |