Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told us to sit down and served us vinegar-tasting wine . |
| 2 | It was , therefore , extremely relevant to him that Wagner had a less complicated view of the age they lived in and found it possible to regard the rise of the new Reich as the outward expression of , precisely , Germanic health and strength . |
| 3 | The nurse came down and gave me some medicine which totally knocked me out . |
| 4 | ‘ Everybody came in and told her all their stories . |
| 5 | there were one or two lads in our unit who were sons of er , of er manufacturing , one was er Crawford Biscuits you know , I soldiered with him and I do n't know if you remember er erm , er but anyway , Frank , Frank at Keighley of course when I got , when we got married he , he came up and got us these blankets did n't he ? |
| 6 | Er , no what happened , my sister came up and brought her two kids in the afternoon |
| 7 | She merely went off to the nursery for a brief inspection , came back and pronounced him gorgeous . |
| 8 | Presently he came out and handed us ten pounds in gold and a cheque for ninety pounds from Coutts 's Bank . |
| 9 | When her husband began to sing a little , snapping his fingers in rhythm , she smiled and for a moment looked like a young girl again ; but the barman came immediately and reminded them that singing was not permitted . |
| 10 | A bloke came round and gave it all me . |
| 11 | ’ And Trevor just turned round and gave it this tremendous kick . |
| 12 | Miss Harker recoiled from the small spidery apparition , but recovered quickly and granted him one of her smiles . |
| 13 | He said , with great politeness , that he would be in the buttery , always supposing anyone wanted to know , and Tybion the Tusk got up and helped him open the door , just to be friendly . |
| 14 | Then when it was realized that things had taken a turn for the worse and somebody was going to get killed the vicar stepped in and bought them all ice-creams . |
| 15 | Next night he fancied a bit of fresh salmon and as he only had two days to live , she rushed out and bought him some salmon . |
| 16 | Lambert got out and left it all . |
| 17 | Somebody gave him a brush and paints one time and he started in and got it better than any of them , oh my word he did . |
| 18 | I went in and got it all . |
| 19 | I was full stretch on top of his grace when the eyelids rolled up and showed me two white lights . |
| 20 | Father Peter waved them back to their seats and went across and poured them generous stoups of ale from the jar just outside the small buttery door . |
| 21 | I went across and threw it open , exasperated that my holy moment had been so brutally shattered . |
| 22 | He went to garage , took out axe , took out knife , went upstairs and killed them both . |
| 23 | Wh when I went to shut the gate after that man had left it open I er I went round and dead-headed them all . |
| 24 | Then of course the there were area combat missions , area missions but these had nothing to do er with the work training I think that and I did and in developing of our crews so that we were able to survive and of course er our mission that we thought that would probably be the same as was on the fourteenth when we went to Schweinfurt and we made it back and not only that but we got back to England , we 'd manage on about the third pass to get in to this one field and there was another plane trying to get in and they went up and bailed out and after we were eating our supper here they brought the men in the fields er where they , on the bombers ' field where they had landed the never got in so they went up and set the plane on automatic pilot and bailed out because they could n't land the plane but we managed to take them out and I think there was the extra good flying training and I did together that made us able to survive the savage attacks that we had , he had it on the Munster mission , I had it on the Schweinfurt mission . |
| 25 | ‘ Who 'd get the blame , I ask you , if some young big-head like him got larking about in that lot , and the whole thing caved in and buried him alive ? |
| 26 | Two agents ran up and shot him dead . |
| 27 | she says but she come out and got her wee one in the car and not David and the wee , the other wee boy into the car and left Michelle or Ashley standing there and drove off . |
| 28 | Eadred coolly agreed , informed us that food would be sent across and bade us all a courteous good night . |
| 29 | The FO chap knew all about it , of course , and any time things looked like coming off the boil he dived in and assured us this could be the biggest coup since the Zimmerman telegram . |
| 30 | they announce in the room we are from video such and such , you know and just looked at me , this black man explained everything to everybody else and then the guy went over and sat down and explained it all again just blind |