Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 2 | As she did so she seemed to notice me for the first time . |
| 3 | Tokes suspended his hunger strike on Sept. 11 to avoid pre-electoral controversy , but threatened to resume it after the second round of presidential elections . |
| 4 | When he moved in the house had five bedrooms , so he decided to convert one on the first floor into an en suite bathroom . |
| 5 | Well , 25 of us went to see it on the 13th of February , and it 's a good show . |
| 6 | But we do think that the fact that they chose to launch it on the last day of our Conference is quite a compliment ; it was after all the Green Party that forced the government to produce the White Paper as a result of our fifteen% in the European Elections last year . |
| 7 | If schemas are widely held , it should usually be obvious to the manager what they are — especially , of course , if he or she aimed to establish them in the first place . |
| 8 | But a nice undertaker with a very smart 1950S hearse agreed to take them to the next town . |
| 9 | He had to be assisted as he flayed himself , but he got most of the skin off as easily as a cardigan , and the minister only had to help him with the last few strips . |
| 10 | He continued to astound me for the next four years . |
| 11 | ‘ I kept sending the demands back and when I went in I was told not to worry , they had to send them to the last known address . |
| 12 | ‘ Above all , the British industrial revolution was a regional phenomenon ’ ( Pollard , 1981 ) ; but often pioneering regions , four declined soon after they had made their vital contribution ( Cornwall , Shropshire , North Wales and the Derbyshire uplands ) , while two more ( Tyneside and Clydeside ) had to get something like a second wind to survive as centres of expanding metal industries and shipbuilding . |
| 13 | Gina , Barbara , Ronnie and Chris Jury , a friend of theirs from Hull University Drama Department days , volunteered to arrange something for the second anniversary of John 's kidnap on 17 April . |
| 14 | And it was and I who wanted to see it in the first place . |
| 15 | Similarly it would be stated in the estate agents ' particulars whether permission had been granted for a house which is up for sale to be sold to someone who wanted to use it as a second home . |
| 16 | In India in February , when Charles attempted to kiss her for the first time in public in four years , Diana defiantly turned away in a clear move to embarrass her husband . |
| 17 | For the afternoon service at St John 's , it was Franklin who arrived late and found the door of the church locked , but he forced an entry , and in a rather childish fracas , " put his legs between [ Eyles " s ] legs , lifted him up " , and attempted to throw him into the next seat . |
| 18 | He wanted to bring us into the twenty-first century . |