Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In passing she noted that Open Desktop was n't original to SCO . |
| 2 | BANG ! 27.3 million Britons tuned in to see who fired that long-overdue bullet at Southfork 's J R Ewing in November . |
| 3 | but it 's I 'd rather see it bodged and some credibility left with district and city councils than er a hole that |
| 4 | It weakly raised one ravaged and shredded arm towards him . |
| 5 | The nanny raised her horned and bearded head , thought for a moment and then bleated . |
| 6 | I suppose you thought that old Papa Miletti would be too stupid to spot that , wrapped up in a lot of technical detail about non-voting share blocks and nominal investment consortia ? |
| 7 | Oh I did n't go r er ve very very much far I took I went and old lady and er looked after her . |
| 8 | Bem herself suggested that BSRI androgyny indicated ‘ a more human standard of psychological health ’ ( 1974 : 162 ) , transcending dominant gender schemas ( 1979a , b ) . |
| 9 | I thought they drunk that all day , |
| 10 | Burn said that immediately after the assessors were appointed he proposed that each judge should examine the schemes separately and indicate on them which he considered to be the best . |
| 11 | He remembers hearing it said that each man in one gang at least vowed to kill or disable the keepers if they attempted to thwart their attacks on the game . |
| 12 | Though he claimed all the peoples of Burma were now united he admitted that this unity ‘ is only in the initial stages … tender and fragile ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I saw what happened when that guy tried to pick you up . |
| 14 | In 1469 , King Louis XI of France conferred with King Henry IV of Castile here ; in 1526 the captive King Francis I was exchanged for his two sons , who stood in for him as hostages with his great enemy , the Emperor Charles V ; in 1659 , the Peace of the Pyrenees between France and Spain was negotiated on the island ; and a year later , the contract of marriage was signed which consolidated that epoch-making treaty , between Louis XIV and the Infant a ( it was while helping to decorate the Spanish pavilion for the occasion that the painter Velázquez is said to have caught his death of cold ) . |
| 15 | In eighteen oh six , erm a law was passed which said that all property of a woman went over to the man on their marriage , including herself , so the woman was no longer an individual , she was just the property of the man and she could be disciplined and punished if the man felt like it . |
| 16 | Could you just repeat the figures for capital expenditure I think you said that this year was going to be higher than last year and explain explain where the money gon na be invested |
| 17 | On arriving he missed that female intimacy which had been so important a part of his life for many years . |
| 18 | The District committee relented ; withdrew their objections and Jacques made it clear to Green it was only through his personal intervention and tenacity as the General Secretary that ‘ the WEA had been saved from disaster , and that this agreement represented , in fact , the charter which gives us continued and autonomous existence ’ . |
| 19 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 20 | The coroner said he understood that one man had been arrested following inquiries and another man was still being sought . |
| 21 | Ballater said he hoped that one day it would . |
| 22 | His houses are always monuments of excellent craftsmanship , but as one eighteenth-century critic who had seen a number of them observed , although ‘ all of them [ are ] convenient and handsome … there is a great sameness in the plans , which proves he had but little invention ’ . |
| 23 | You ca n't imagine I meant that hideous model you sent round to stay with us , can you ? ’ |