Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
| 2 | There are at least ten or a dozen different principal textures , but it would be unusual to find a large number of them used in the same piece . |
| 3 | ‘ I lived in the same house as him once . |
| 4 | Instead he told the judge that if he let his son go free , he would see to it that his got into no more trouble . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I did get a bit depressed at times … and I got through a few pairs of shoes . ’ |
| 6 | It has n't been a disastrous trip for me , but I got in a few times without going on to a really big score . ’ |
| 7 | And I knelt for a few moments , head buried in my hands . |
| 8 | In the next article , I will describe the details of the job , and in another the solutions I found to the many problems encountered on the way . |
| 9 | But then I found in the same week in the relatively liberal UK magazine Time Out several references to women as ‘ chicks ’ and ‘ broads ’ . |
| 10 | er , so I 've a , is n't it , it 's a case of no news is possibly good news again , erm , I 'm trying to get in touch with the National Co-Organiser for Carl and John without er any success erm , I know he was going to the erm , the British Section just erm , he was gon na check on them and what actions were forthcoming but er , I have n't heard about that erm , I dare say there 's some on the way erm , the erm , the other few points were erm Jackie 's talk last month she mentioned that erm she was gon na give sort of the more forms sort of side presentation and stuff at their centre in North London , I 've got ta date for that now , it 's erm the eighteenth of March , which is a Wednesday so eh , I 'll certainly be going , if anybody else is interested that 's er , that 's the date er , it 's , it 's not entirely to do with but it , it has a link in , erm we were mentioning campaigns last month , I believe there 's a fourth coming one on , indigenous peoples , which , er , it 's , it 's all sort of triggered off by erm the er five hundredth anniversary of Columbus discovering the Americas erm , the erm cast and the whole of all the sort of the Region and Action networks and the Americas are , erm gon na have a big link in with that campaign so , erm , I , I 'd really like to see us sort of getting involved with that , yes , and , I mean , I 'll be involved to an extent anyway , cos some of the actions that I 'll getting will be sort of addressing the issue of indigenous people 's but erm , erm , they if , if nobody else is wiling to take it on , I 'll , I 'll , I 'd certainly be prepared to erm , sort of co-ordinate that campaign , erm , having said all that , erm I mentioned to a few people that erm , erm in the process of buying a house , so erm I could be moving in well hopefully as little as two months time so erm , I mean if er is as quite as it has been for the last few months , I probably wo n't have any problems , but erm , sod 's law it 's bound to pick up just as I 'm moving house |
| 11 | I came at the same time as the Sweeper came for I saw him standing by this very cage in clothes the people wear and not in Keeper-clothes such as he began to wear afterwards . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I came in the same van as someone called Gleeson , ’ said Marcus . |
| 13 | And Graham claimed : ‘ Frank McLintock was a marvellous skipper — I should know because I played in the same team with him . |
| 14 | When I had done that , I touched over the same areas again to strengthen a colour or restate an edge or detail as I felt necessary . |
| 15 | ‘ I certify that I have known Colour Serjeant William Nicholl late of the 8th ( or King 's ) Regiment for the space of ten years , six of which I belonged to the same Company and always considered him a man of most exemplary character . |
| 16 | I used to work with them before I finished at the same YTS scheme . |
| 17 | I escaped with a few scars and I have no doubt that my greatest support was the knowledge that I was n't economically dependent on my family . |
| 18 | But what I heard at the same time was the most fantastic application of expression . |
| 19 | ‘ My car 's been stolen , ’ I screamed at the same traffic warden . |
| 20 | I meditated for a few seconds , concentrating on my breathing , immediately aware of how shallow it was . |
| 21 | ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera . |
| 22 | It was just a fantasy I nurtured for a few years as I puffed and panted my way through the ten-foots and alleyways of downtown Hull . |
| 23 | This created two new corners , which I treated in the same way , and so on till I achieved the shape marked out . |
| 24 | As I looked at the few stones that remained of the castle , I learned from the magazine that the Irish-built castle of the local kings , the O'Rourkes , had once towered over the local countryside . |
| 25 | The to infinitive has much the same expressive effect in : ( 23 ) Certainly I looked for no such friendship as you have shown . |
| 26 | Interestingly enough I looked into the same situation in America and Germany and in all three mighty industrial countries six out of the top ten firms had gone . |
| 27 | I looked in the same direction and saw a group of men standing and staring at us . |
| 28 | so I managed for a few weeks and then I went to lodge with my sister at Trimley |
| 29 | I thought of no such possibility . |
| 30 | I thought after a few times she 'll stop and she 'll accept it . |