Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I referred to previously as the comprador mentality , the slavish attachment to things foreign , is not a necessary component of the ideology of the TCC , but it does occur ( see Chan , 1987 , ch.18 ) . |
| 2 | The other , whom I recognised at once from the camp at Southampton and from the training centre at Achnacarry was sitting u– on the stretcher cursing his bad luck in getting a piece of shrapnel in his leg . |
| 3 | I walked in there into the er geography room and erm this chap turned round and said hello Miss . |
| 4 | And I started from there as a forester . |
| 5 | However , they had got me out of the way and I felt at least with a following wind a big lad would hit the ball in my direction and I might be able to do something . |
| 6 | There was an advertisement for tooth-paste on one of the back pages and I thought at once of the clothing parcel I had not collected . |
| 7 | Sure enough , I went over there with the other inspectors and we said to the sergeants : ‘ Fall in the men . ’ |
| 8 | This I did at once with a feeling of self-importance which blinded me to the now obvious fact that she was abrogating her responsibilities and allowing them to devolve , once more , upon her eldest daughter . |
| 9 | When I left in here at the when the receivers come in I got a wee job in Centre , up the town , and I had , I could have got a job in a hosiery in but I did n't fancy travelling down there , so I took that wee job up there . |
| 10 | Determined not spend my life in this manner , I continued to reapply to the postgraduate art courses . |
| 11 | For this was something which came from right outside the audience 's experience or expectations . |
| 12 | And after thirty-five years with the Duke she had hundreds of pieces , which came from all over the world . |
| 13 | His university duties consisted chiefly of marking examinations five or six times a year , avalanches of which arrived from all over the country ; he found it increasingly difficult to judge them , unable to make up his mind about marks while driven by conscience to become ever more scrupulous . |
| 14 | Police have issued an appeal for witnesses to the accident , which happened at 11.55am at the junction of Allington Way and Lingfield Way . |
| 15 | Police have issued an appeal for witnesses to the accident , which happened at 11.55am at the junction of Allington Way and Lingfield Way . |
| 16 | John Major 's announcement — which left him obviously shaken — was the culmination of a day of behind-the-scenes constitutional drama which began at 10am with a crisis meeting of the Government 's top ministers . |
| 17 | A trail of ash led down to a ragged , greasy jacket , buttoned with extreme strain over two pullovers which reached to just above the knee of oiled and dusty denims . |
| 18 | ‘ If you came from just down the road it would make no difference . |
| 19 | All you needed in here among the shadows and sawdust was your maleness , your sour testosterone . |
| 20 | For over Rosemary 's shoulder she saw at once beyond the short width of the hall and into the sitting-room — and Rosemary was doing some entertaining herself . |
| 21 | She ran at once to the door . |
| 22 | And while you were , while you were using a film which you had in anyway for the next day 's performance and putting in that slot |
| 23 | and it about five minutes , five or ten minutes before we left off , actually been doing a great , getting a machine in Jack , we dropped in there for a cup of tea and er I goes in |
| 24 | I think we came off best at the end ! |
| 25 | We heard from there of the lady who , seeking a replacement for an indispensable gardening book lent to and never returned by a ‘ friend ’ , found her own copy on the stall . |
| 26 | Now last week and on Sunday we talked about again about the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit . |
| 27 | It 's rather like what we talked about right at the beginning we talked about picking out features from our image such as the the width the height er the grey area or whatever of the image . |
| 28 | Yeah , erm when we went in there for a few times used to get headaches and that . |
| 29 | The one where that one number eight and it 's , it 's got that complex number , that 's the one we looked at just before the end of half term , yeah . |
| 30 | Could have been on that boardwalk thing that we spoke about just across the road . |