Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bronze was cast in standard ingots that were about 0.9 metres long with inward-curving sides that made them easier to carry on the shoulder , as shown on one of the contemporary Egyptian tomb paintings depicting Minoan emissaries . |
| 2 | I thought it was Kim sat there when I first come down the stair , I did n't know , did n't know her . |
| 3 | Erm when I first came out the army . |
| 4 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 5 | I still remember my surprise at the changed attitudes I noticed in other people when I first put on a white coat . |
| 6 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 7 | I 'm not taking the pictures for the reason I first picked up a camera . |
| 8 | I honestly had n't read anything as interesting since I first picked up a novel by Thomas Hardy . ’ |
| 9 | To join the band , I first picked up the sweater piece with right side facing and then using a three pronged latch tool I picked up the band . |
| 10 | When I first loaded up the pack I really thought it would be a bit top heavy — it 's a longer and slimmer pack than most British models — but I was delighted to discover that my fears were unfounded . |
| 11 | So after that visit to Bristol , when I went to my little chapel on that bald knoll , I first called up the white healing ball and rolled it around every part of my anatomy , then I called up my archers and let them shine the beams of their torches down onto the spot in my lung . |
| 12 | Only with difficulty was she able to hold back the tears , forcing herself to smile . |
| 13 | ‘ When did you first find out the affair was going on ? ’ the superintendent asked . |
| 14 | Here it if often helpful if you work with a partner , as long as you both think along the same lines . |
| 15 | One idea I developed with my daughter , and find is very popular with all children , is to sing the wrong words of a nursery rhyme and get them all to shout out the right ones . |
| 16 | So we all walked down the corner there we all had our beds round there everything was laid out . |
| 17 | Either he gets it right or we all go up the Swanee . ’ |
| 18 | He is particularly interested in the way that words and sentences change their meaning according to the context in which they are said and heard , and in the ways in which we all fill in the unspoken background of what is said to us . |
| 19 | We all cheered up a bit after that . |
| 20 | ‘ We all kid around a bit , ’ Parker said . |
| 21 | We all sat round an enormous dining-room table for supper , which , as it was Boxing Day , was always cold turkey with all the trimmings , sausages , pork pie , beetroot and celery . |
| 22 | In particular , the traditional , if untheorized , distinction between serious literature and ‘ rubbish ’ has broken down ; as Franco Fortini said , the occasional slummings of the aristocratic writer of the past have given way to a situation in which we all live off the ‘ guano ’ which our society produces day by day ( Cadioli and Peresson 1984 : 85 ) . |
| 23 | We all prowl around the pool in a fabrication of isolation , none of us speaking . |
| 24 | When all had come forward , I motioned with my head and we all marched out the right side of the auditorium through the drapes that hung along the wall . |
| 25 | We first carried out a dose ranging study of rt-PA among 50 patients with myocardial infarction seen 4 hours after the onset of symptoms . |
| 26 | We first write down the new resource column in P1/T1 using the formula ( 6.3 ) for . |
| 27 | To form a binary relation consisting of student-name and module , we first carry out a projection : |
| 28 | Until we next meet over the airwaves , this has been Lynne Cramer … ‘ |
| 29 | There were about a dozen writers in hospitality , most of them busy knocking back the hard stuff . |
| 30 | Bud Collins , one of America 's leading tennis commentators and writers , who wrote the foreword , assures me that he has seen Wegner prove the point by teaching newcomers from seven to seventy keep a reasonable rally going within two hours of them first picking up a racket . |