Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Bodie softened his voice , teased Liz mercilessly , until she agreed to meet him a few minutes later , to be taken to Linda Stone 's school . |
| 2 | THAT was a really important break for us , and helped to push us a few more rungs up the ladder . |
| 3 | He promised to bring me a few notes from which I could prepare a draft but he never did . ’ |
| 4 | He 'd given her a few sugar pieces , which she 'd taken , and even offered several pinches of snuff , which she had n't . |
| 5 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 6 | Erm I came to see you a few weeks ago at night you know er It 's just like I 'm just filling up , you know , with mucus and stuff and coughing and I had er no sleep for about a week . |
| 7 | She 'd met him a few times , usually when he was drunk . |
| 8 | The different reactions to the military adventures of James III and James IV owe much to that most fundamental aspect of rule , the ability to evoke enthusiasm and affection — love , as contemporaries would have said ; the former failed to inspire what the latter clearly got in such great measure that the Scots were willing to countenance the idea of a crusade against the Turks , and in 1513 were even prepared to break the habit of more than a century , of avoiding major pitched battles with the English . |
| 9 | We had a very good time , & good weather , for the rest of our stay , & I think Richard enjoyed showing us the many attractions of his area as much as we enjoyed seeing them . |
| 10 | He began to make himself a few pence early on — running messages , collecting newspapers for the chip shops and horse dung for fertiliser , finding the pay-penny cracks in life on the narrow streets . |
| 11 | To make life easier for us all I started to teach her a few commands , but I found she would obey any order before it was given . |
| 12 | It was also possible for fearful accidents to occur to a driller who decided to save himself a few inches by using the bottom of an exploded shot-hole . |
| 13 | These three are likely to feature in tomorrow 's opening match against a Stellenbosch Farmers XI , though any idea of a nice easy game should be dismissed as Yorkshire , who have been out here for a week , struggled to beat them a few days ago . |
| 14 | Going through my files the other day , I vaguely remembered sending you a little effort called Offensive from Quasar 13 — just over seven months ago , it must have been . |
| 15 | I did phone her a few weeks ago and she said , ooh I 'll have to see you on Friday in Mould you know get a |
| 16 | Your mum did tell me a few weeks ago |
| 17 | Gifford Tate had painted it a few weeks before she died . |
| 18 | Lowell had heard them a few times before on the Sundays when life was normal and they were just background music at the commencement of an ordinary day . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm looking forward to seeing your brother again , ’ Donna said , sipping the dry martini Alex had given her a few minutes earlier . |
| 20 | Juliet had given her a few pointers , but indream Susan found her experience as Vanessa Vail somehow more confidence-building . |
| 21 | Mauve had given him a few casts of hands and feet to take home and study . |
| 22 | Lady Maude had given him a few pennies and tomorrow he planned to see his friend in Crabbe Street . |
| 23 | Not a word had she received from Pilade 's father as to his son 's welfare all this long time and if she had given him cause , as he might argue , to abandon her she had given him no such leave to forget his child . |
| 24 | She rushed to answer , thinking that it might be Barney , but it was a young journalist from the Gloucester Gazette who had interviewed her a few months previously when her latest book was published . |
| 25 | I had seen her a few times since and remembered her lively face , her large , intelligent eyes which were always looking here , looking there as if one moment 's rest would deny her some crumb of life . |
| 26 | She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women . |
| 27 | Fortunately Pat had lent me a few things so at least I was clean . |
| 28 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
| 29 | Having saved him from almost certain death in the morning at the hands of the enemy , fate had collected him the same evening by a stray bullet fired in error by a Maltese Army recruit . |
| 30 | ‘ I would have signed if they had offered me a few bob more . ’ |