Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [det] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a regular mistress and he drew out that money to pay her off before he married the other one . ’ |
| 2 | Corbett looked into her harassed face and fearful eyes and , digging into his purse , drew out some coins handed them to her . |
| 3 | Hence the possibility of saying , when neither speaker nor addressee is at home : ( 83 ) I came over several times to visit you , but you were never there So we must append another clause to our gloss , namely : " or motion towards the home-base maintained at CT by either speaker or addressee " . |
| 4 | We came on a , I think it was on a Friday or Saturday morning and I had to go back Sunday night , cos I was on duty on the Monday back in Plymouth , and I did a month in Plymouth , er , a month or five weeks no longer , and I came up each weekend to see them , my wife was left there then . |
| 5 | So when he rang up that evening to tell me he was taking a fortnight 's leave towards the end of June and what about a trip north as soon as term ended , I did feel as if the fates themselves had taken a hand . |
| 6 | His name was Joe Jack , and after my first visit I went back many times to hear him talk as he carved out the shape of a leather sole or polished a repaired shoe on his rotary machine . |
| 7 | She gave up any attempt to read him now . |
| 8 | For example , for much of the day we need to be able to repress or split off some feelings to enable us to concentrate or to use our intellects . |
| 9 | He took care of him and the Greek verb means that he literally took total charge of his case , in other words he probably stayed up all night nursing him , and so he made the inn into temporarily a nursing home and we 're back into another area of the Board 's concerns . |
| 10 | It was here that the Princess was presented with a bonnet of straw-plait made by the ladies of Swanage who stayed up all night to finish it before the royal party left next day from the Quay to join the Royal Yacht in the Bay . |
| 11 | ‘ I stayed up all night to cheer him on to in the presidential election . |