Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some minutes it smoked its pipe and did not speak , but at last it took the pipe out of its mouth , and said , ‘ So you 've changed , have you ? |
| 2 | All groups are invited to send resolution which may or may not be actually debated but erm , we , we do n't normally send one in , but some , some groups they send them in , no , no one 's thinking |
| 3 | ‘ I came to see you about some notes I sent your husband . |
| 4 | I do yeah absolutely as as as the first few times we did it you know . |
| 5 | The big dog had snapped it from his fingers eagerly enough , but after rolling it around in her mouth a few times she spat it to the floor and pawed at it , growling and sniffing her distaste . |
| 6 | Listening , as you become more comfortable and you become , you 've done it a few times you know what you 're gon na have to say and then you , you er , you listen more carefully to the answers . |
| 7 | The first few times you go it 's interesting and exciting as anything new is , but eventually it 's hot and dusty and really quite boring . |
| 8 | Peck adds that ‘ Some times they prod him with Needles , sometimes they pepper him , sometimes they Shoot at him . ’ |
| 9 | After a few attempts I found I was turning like Robby Naish for the first part of the turn , then falling in on the inside of the turn . |
| 10 | Some people did expect an awful lot from those youngsters for the few shillings they paid them . |
| 11 | For a few minutes we said nothing . |
| 12 | After a few minutes we watched them crossing the field , alongside the hedgerow . |
| 13 | After a few minutes he replaces it with something more conducive to conversation , the Neville Brothers ' ‘ Yellow Moon ’ . |
| 14 | After a few minutes he raised his head and was now sitting motionless , pale and haggard but controlled , while Iris , her eyes moist with sympathetic tears , stood silently and helplessly by . |
| 15 | George drove , not going anywhere , and for a few minutes he said nothing , then : ‘ Ecology . |
| 16 | Then , after going on like that for a few minutes he took my hand and said , ‘ Faith you were absolutely rubbish ! ’ with that famous dead-pan expression . |
| 17 | After a few minutes he heaved himself out of bed , but his leg let him down and he fell backwards . |
| 18 | After a few minutes I roused myself , gathered up the clothes , and went round to Dominic 's room , holding his key through a handkerchief . |
| 19 | Within a few minutes she saw him riding towards her up the hill , his horse 's harness glinting in the sun . |
| 20 | After a few minutes she opened them again . |
| 21 | After a few minutes she bent her head and dropped a kiss lightly on his ankle , and then her hand slid up under the leg of the leathers and sensuously kneaded the firm muscle at the back of his calf . |
| 22 | Mm we had some copies you remember we had a very nice photograph of erm us as a family ? |
| 23 | Each day we used to do say an hour in the morning , whatever time was available between leaving school and getting back , dinner time , then in the evening you might have two , two and a half hours you left you , you finished school , and er you might finish at eight o'clock if you were lucky you 'd finish at half past seven . |
| 24 | Well they 're not new blimming , new pict though they 've decorated have n't they , they 've done one coat now , I look like Nora Batty with wrinkles in this tights I told her to phone me from Woking station but she 's probably er |
| 25 | At a meeting of the Cairngorm Club he told a hushed audience ‘ For every few steps I took I heard a crunch as if someone was walking after me but taking steps three or four times the length of my own . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't care about the baby , ’ Philip said , and with those few words he doomed his unborn son . |
| 27 | I then started lungeing him and within a few months I rode him out at walk : a very difficult task . |
| 28 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
| 29 | I was sleeping with my boyfriend , and after a few months I found I was pregnant and I had to stop going there . |
| 30 | ‘ Right , there are some books I want you to look at — general background to give you the feel of the thing . |