Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That reminds me : I asked whether he 'd heard anything within a few minutes of seeing young Hamnett , hoping he 'd say a shot , of course , which really would have been too good to be true . |
| 2 | My God , for 15 years I 'd written nothing but a few songs . ’ |
| 3 | At first sight , his praise of the Romanian regime seemed to put him in the same class as the ‘ Red Dean ’ , Hewlett Johnson . |
| 4 | Anyway , after I 'd introduced her to a few different locations and got her over the initial newness of the experience , she seemed perfectly willing to come to me . |
| 5 | They were almost shouting at one another , and both seemed to realise it at the same time . |
| 6 | The Socialist League began to find itself in the same critical relationship with the Labour Party which had forced its predecessor , the ILP , to disaffiliate . |
| 7 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century this belief began to impress itself upon a few mature minds that were open to a concept of childhood quite different from that of an earlier age , when children tended to be regarded as nothing better than undeveloped adults . |
| 8 | She constantly needed to caution him about the many dangers he was either too young or too stupid to recognize for himself . |
| 9 | Believing that efficient charge separation could only be possible if the electron donor ( that is , chlorophyll ) and the electron acceptor ( quinone ) were in close proximity , they decided to put them into the same molecule . |
| 10 | After snarling a few choice remarks at them from the corners of our mouths , such as , ‘ Get lost ! ’ or ‘ Beat it ! ’ , which we understood to be good American for , ‘ Please go away , we do not wish for company , ’ we managed to rid ourselves of a few of them , but two of the most persistent followed us until we were clear of the town , and then we realised that the only way to be left alone was for us to be really rude . |
| 11 | Physio Alan Smith raced on and battled to revive him after the former record buy had blocked his air passage by swallowing his tongue . |
| 12 | Yes I know cos you did have it on a few weeks ago . |
| 13 | We arrived at all of the locations in good time , although the traffic in Stoke did put us under a little pressure towards the end , we finished with a whole five minutes to spare ! |
| 14 | If lightning did strike me in the same minute , it would be treated as a miracle . |
| 15 | Miss Scrimgeour had received one at the same time . |
| 16 | Sarah told Maureen that she had received one by the same post . |
| 17 | He felt very weak , however , and every so often he retched convulsively , though without vomiting for he had consumed nothing except a little water in the past twenty-four hours . |
| 18 | The devil had booked them into the same room . |
| 19 | A little better ; he had seen her in a few more moods , some higher , some lower . |
| 20 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |
| 21 | She projected a kind of agelessness , which had made her at the same time an object of attention from both the Young Women 's Fitness Class and the Over-50s Club . |
| 22 | The first indeed had presented itself as no more than vivid memory , though — if she were honest with herself — she would admit it had arisen from a kind of fear . |
| 23 | The extraordinary stop-start conversation between Victor and his monster had convinced me of the latter 's supreme dangerousness : given its malevolence , its lying and eloquent tongue was probably as big a threat as its turn of speed . |
| 24 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |
| 25 | It had reduced him to the same level , just another anonymous treatment that her body had required . |
| 26 | On the night the piece was shown in August 1990 , and the following day , Thames Television ran a Help Line staffed by experienced money advisers for viewers who had found themselves in the same situation as Sue and Tony . |
| 27 | After an initial hesitation in December that lasted no more than forty-eight hours , the King 's sense of fair play had led him to the same conclusion . |
| 28 | Years of sunlight had tanned him to the same mahogany brown as the island fishermen . |
| 29 | But if it was breakfast , you had to cook it within the half hour and get out . |
| 30 | Tonight he had left her with a few unanswered questions , and speculations buzzing around her brain . |