Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | painting the kitchen once and I got into so much trouble it took him so long to rub it all off and start again , he made me promise I 'd never touch a paint brush again but he I mean , he would definitely be able to tell you what paint he used and |
| 2 | I hung in there another year shredding a few more files saying maybe it was time I went back to the law and when I got this offer … |
| 3 | I signed for yet another year 's work , Social Psychology . |
| 4 | It was while filming at this den that I heard of yet another place , only a few miles up the Wye , where mink had been seen killing mallard chicks . |
| 5 | I went to as many classes as I could , although as they worked college terms they did n't start until September and I arrived in July . |
| 6 | I spoke to as many reinforcements as I possibly could , especially those who had just arrived from Achnacarry . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm just curious , ’ I said with as much innocence as I could muster , ‘ but of course , if you 're scared of the place … ’ |
| 8 | That 's probably why she got through so many women . |
| 9 | The room , reached this time from the veranda , was just as lovely as she had remembered , and after folding some clothes neatly in drawers and hanging the rest on satin-padded hangers in the wardrobe she fussed for quite some time with the scanty collection of knick-knacks she had brought , trying to arrange them so that they harmonised with the tranquil simplicity of the décor . |
| 10 | ‘ What are you doing here ? ’ she asked with as much control as she could muster . |
| 11 | ‘ Of course , ’ she replied with far more confidence than she actually felt . |
| 12 | When she woke next morning , she knew at once that Water Gypsy was on the move . |
| 13 | Not until her mid-thirties did she find her taste change , and even then by chance , as good manners constrained her to eat what she had for so many years quite strenuously resisted . |
| 14 | Shivers running through her , she said with as much insouciance as she could muster , ‘ I 'm very tired , and it 's work tomorrow . |
| 15 | ‘ So you 're Bob 's … assistant ? ’ she said with too much inflection . |
| 16 | Letting me think that you slept with so many men you did n't have the first idea who the father was ! ’ |
| 17 | Everyone knows Margaret as she travelled between so many departments . |
| 18 | erm and bearing in mind Mr 's comments about er could he have thought we translated into rather more layman 's language and say well the capacity of the roads do actually deliver and extract people from Gatwick mathematical modelling is pretty suspect stuff but erm but at least it would er if that is true if it is not capable of actually er sensibly erm er allowing arrivals and departures er onto our road network without causing I think all they 're doing is pushing the problem onto us er and we ought |
| 19 | We went to so much trouble because we were aware of the power of cultural conditioning . |
| 20 | We looked for too little back-up , naively taking on too much , like driving the women to and from the centre . |
| 21 | I thought of the chessplayers in the Park , where we sat for so many hours , the chessplayers , more various by far than the pieces they wielded ( the players not erect , not regulated , but mumbling , shambling , rhomboid ) . |
| 22 | We shall have to ask ourselves in the next lecture to what extent they succeeded with so little Latin at their disposal . |
| 23 | They called for so many generator , we had double of them . |
| 24 | As a consequence of its scope , its vague wording , and its proposed method of enforcement , which was mainly civil , it applied to very little business conduct and was , as discussed earlier , more suitable for the prosecution of labour and small businessmen than large manufacturers . |
| 25 | He lives , still , in the same Chelsea fiat with its pink and white striped wallpaper , geranium-filled window-boxes , elegant chintzy furniture , and the myriad of expressive original paintings which Joyce and he shared for so many years . |
| 26 | According to this theory the earlier generational pairing was abandoned because it led to so much inbreeding that people who practised the gens system were genetically more fit for natural selection and therefore survived better . |
| 27 | ‘ They detonated an explosive device next to one , and it disintegrated into so many pieces they could n't find them all . |
| 28 | Ruth was in the servants ' hall one day when he returned from yet another picnic . |
| 29 | From where Yanto stood it looked like just another heap of mud . |
| 30 | He reined across so that Burun was forced to stop . |