Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I met Nigel only a few years ago . |
| 2 | But then when I got glasses suddenly the whole world came into focus and I thought , ‘ So that 's what it 's all about , is it ? ’ |
| 3 | I read them both again erm last year for the first time for many years , and I found Herodotus much the better of the two , because Herodotus was prepared to be curious about everything . |
| 4 | I lost Granpa quite a bit of our weekly profit that way , until he taught me to say , ‘ Twopence change , Mrs Smith , ’ then hold up the coins for all to see before handing them over . |
| 5 | Although I did n't see Charlie for months , I rang Eva almost every day for a full report . |
| 6 | I saw Nancy once the following day and then she was gone . |
| 7 | and er , I I saw Chris quite a lot , then , but I mean , they 're not living how they used to do , I mean , they they were always boozing and that , |
| 8 | I took Joyce there a couple of times . |
| 9 | Well , perhaps I nudged things just a little too far . |
| 10 | Since her job was to maintain liaison with Number 10 , which made Maxim technically a colleague , she was to represent the Security Service at the meeting . |
| 11 | A design revolution which took place around a hundred years ago is being celebrated in a new book about the Cotswolds . |
| 12 | Apart from the victory at Halidon Hill , which in retrospect was of great military significance but which gave Edward only a temporary and illusory supremacy , the war did little to enhance Edward III 's military reputation . |
| 13 | Channel 7 , the telephone and Viewdata listing company which angered accountants over a year ago ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November 1990 , p 13 and March 1991 , p 11 ) is still in operation and , according to a recent complaint , is using the names of the Institute and major firms to persuade other accountants to sign up . |
| 14 | According to figures compiled by the National Institute of Drug Abuse in December 1990 , the number of US citizens who used cocaine once a week or more fell by 23 per cent from 862,000 in 1988 to 662,000 in 1990 . |
| 15 | Penny was a feminist friend of Robyn 's from the Sociology Department , with whom she played squash once a week . |
| 16 | J.F. Cooper , who played golf almost every day , was elected Captain , and Major Carr was employed at £80 per annum as Secretary , with free lunches and teas . |
| 17 | Melody 's moved on with some of my men , but she said she saw Boz again a day or two ago . |
| 18 | None was more evident than her grasp of all the issues of Government as she answered questions twice a week in the House of Commons . |
| 19 | These were er in , in its infancy then and er we had a soup kitchen and er we , we got soup once a day , when we got issued with it . |
| 20 | We got coffee once a week . |
| 21 | Having gathered data and established the existing flow of work around the system — the Brown Paper — they proposed solutions around a second flow diagram , this time on white paper . |
| 22 | Exploiting a new device and a new theory , Williamson made a career in science for himself ; and with later work on coal and the plants from which it had come , he made geology also a laboratory subject , involving apparatus for making thin sections , and a microscope . |
| 23 | It has been calculated that while Stapledon spent just under half his time before the 1320s in his diocese , once he became treasurer barely a tenth of his time was passed at Exeter ; he relied instead upon the machinery of deputies to maintain his authority and execute his wishes there . |
| 24 | Dixon 's mention of clothes had pulled his mind back to the discovery of Kemp 's body , and he asked Lewis much the same question he had asked Max , receiving much the same answers . |
| 25 | The lecture he gave and the responses it provoked form perhaps the most widely read debate in jurisprudence in Britain in the period since the Second World War . |
| 26 | So that was why he drove north early every Monday morning ! |
| 27 | It achieved temperatures over a million degrees and sustained them for several milliseconds . |
| 28 | He sent Dogs Today a recording of meetings with mediums who claim to identify the spirit of Kirsty , his Border Terrier |
| 29 | It took Beth only a few minutes to put on her bonnet and best shawl while Peggy dressed the boy for outdoors . |
| 30 | It took place quite a long time ago , it is known as the cessation of the plebs there were two occasions on which the workers of of Ancient Rome and withdrew from the city and their t the terms on which as as far as I recollect the terms of their return where that somebody should write down the law in comprehensible terms and that there should be a special officer , a tribune appointed who could if necessary explain what the law was to them . |