Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |
| 2 | When my mother got off the train we walked across the road to the bus stop , only to find the same man jumping on the Kirkby bus . |
| 3 | When I got off the bus she was at Hackney Cen Central with all her friends . |
| 4 | When Sally got off the bus he was waiting for her , leaning against the bonnet , smoking a cigarette and looking more than ever the dashing young man-about-town . |
| 5 | At the moment this innovatory scheme was still at the planning stage , but once it got off the ground I could n't fail to gross a minimum of fifty thou in the first year of operation , after which the sky was the limit . |
| 6 | How Bunce Court got through the war it is hard to imagine , but get through it did and with flying colours , if the testimony of former pupils is anything to go by . |
| 7 | As it tumbled through the air it stretched out its arms . |
| 8 | Benny sprinted for the doors she had come in by , but already more guards were arriving from their stations , and the first few shots buzzed past her . |
| 9 | And he was a wounded pensioner er and he , he applied for a grant which you , which er a wounded soldier in the First World War could get if you had a pension he could get a grant of that pension to learn a trade . |
| 10 | He whipped off the rag which the wind caught and blew against one of the spiked heads . |
| 11 | ‘ I know you cared for the boy yourself . ’ |
| 12 | But nobody cared for the stones he told And he sat all alone of a night Until one day a traveller came in from the cold A sorry and miserable sight . |
| 13 | I lunged for the computer which contained my first four hard-laboured chapters , and it literally burst into flames at my touch . |
| 14 | I figured that if I asked for a transfer I 'd either get a rise or would be able to work out a better deal for myself if I went elsewhere . |
| 15 | The successful schemes were unsentimental and transcended the apparent dilemma posed by the design brief which asked for a building which related to preformed and powerful sensibilities and beliefs about life and death and which is also required to be effectively energy conscious . |
| 16 | He hesitated only briefly before he said , ‘ Because it asked for a reservation I have no wish to make . |
| 17 | When she checked through the spyhole it was standing in exactly the same spot , unmoving , like a lizard . |
| 18 | Again , they could have gone into the supermarket , but they thought the police had had a good look at them , so they sprinted through the crowds who took as little notice as they expected , and across the street just after the lights had changed 50 that the traffic beginning to move , hooted . |
| 19 | The banks of the Susquehannah lay out of reach as a setting in which to realize this vision ; the streams which flowed from the Quantock Hills passed through a landscape which had already begun to seem hardly less desirable . |
| 20 | Altho' we started at 7.30 , as we passed through the streets there were already hordes of people on their way to work , and armies of volunteers ( yes , at 7.30 on Sunday ! ) making the streets nice and clean . |
| 21 | As she passed through the lights she turned right into a small service road which ran alongside a few small shops . |
| 22 | As she passed through the channel there had been less than a foot clearance between the ship 's sides and the concrete wharf . |
| 23 | ‘ All that I have done today has gone amiss ’ , he says ( II , 17 ) ; ‘ Since we passed through the Argonath my choices have gone amiss ’ ( II , 28 ) ; ‘ And now may I make a right choice , and change the evil fate of this unhappy day ! ’ |
| 24 | As he made for the door she said , ‘ You wo n't forget to take that bottle in for her , will you ? |
| 25 | As he made for the door he heard the phone ringing in the hall and when he entered he saw Joe turn from the telephone table towards him , saying , ‘ It 's for you , Martin . |
| 26 | As she made for the doors she was suddenly halted by the realization that she had no money with her . |
| 27 | Many of these Whig Jacobite tracts can be said to reflect commonwealth principles , in the sense that they argued for a monarchy which would be severely limited . |
| 28 | I once read about a boxer who did that . |
| 29 | Early on , Mary Pat Kelly became fascinated by what she read about the film which Scorsese made when he was still a student . |
| 30 | I rang the senior registrar to tell him but realised after a while he was n't saying much . |