Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [art] present [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lived in the present tense of the school with its totally absorbing pattern of routine and minor rebellion . |
| 2 | As some hon. Members may know , I have some interest in that subject , and I hope that I shall be able to have an Adjournment debate in which to discuss the process by which we arrived at the present stage of the project . |
| 3 | The public would no more identify with the new councils than they did with the present ones or did with the old councils , Prof Midwinter stressed . |
| 4 | So if the revenue had refused in the exercise of their discretion to make the repayment they did in the present case I am of opinion that in the absence of any other remedy it would have been open to Woolwich to claim repayment in proceedings for judicial review , and there would appear to be no reason why such proceedings would not have been successful . |
| 5 | Lord Fraser ( at p813 ) stated : The Crown contended that the definition in s454(3) ( now TA 1988 ss681(4) ) applied to all transactions that did not have a bona fide commercial reason , and that it applied to the present transaction , the sole reason for which was to avoid tax . |
| 6 | After a couple of sentences he went into the present tense , which was a habit he had in speaking of the past , as if it were the plot of some play he was about to do . |
| 7 | Instead he kept to the present subject . |
| 8 | He said that he and Karen could have , he said at the present prices he and this Karen that he 's , that left him er they , they could have had erm a place together because some one bedroom flats , two bedroom flats around are going at thirty five thousand , thirty one . |