Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't think I really had any doubts about them , ’ she said slowly at last . |
| 2 | When I went to the bus I realised I only had one bag instead of two so I rushed back but no-one had seen the bag in the pub or the shops . |
| 3 | You say she always ringed that calendar , is that right ? |
| 4 | Social workers say they never had enough evidence of maltreatment to go to court for a care order . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the NRPB found it probably did significant harm . |
| 6 | And although it was customary for the same actor to double as Mr Darling and Captain Hook the way St Ives played them there seemed little difference between the two — he romped in the nursery and he sky-larked aboard the Jolly Roger . |
| 7 | This last results she only got one pass . |
| 8 | Juliet noticed he too had small spots around his nose and mouth , and an idea began to form . |
| 9 | Erm I did n't spot the tentative benefit , I do n't think you actually got that bit as far as what was gon na be in it because when erm Steve came up with the why so long I think that , that took you off the track a bit . |
| 10 | She pushed it into the slot and dialled , dismayed to see she only had six units left . |
| 11 | I mean she never liked that car . |
| 12 | To help I now had three rucsacs on my back . |
| 13 | My youngest girl has just been operated on and I could n't believe she only had two stitches . |
| 14 | I find that the minute I write down , erm , you know , somebody phones me and says I want another meeting with you , let's make it for next Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon , and I find within half an hour of me writing that down on the calendar card in ink , er , the people who 's parentage I then start to question , phone back and say well whoops , you know we , we forgot we actually had another meeting then , and so on and so forth . |
| 15 | He claimed it often took three weeks for written details to arrive on his desk . |
| 16 | They were together for four years , but Bailey recalls : ‘ I do n't think we ever saw each other . |
| 17 | You know she just got bigger dog . |
| 18 | We found a very nice you know we once had this push up horse , we now found a push up doll which is sort of quite nicely coloured and this little spinning top which I think is quite nice . |
| 19 | Some graduates stride to the front of the little hall so easily you would not guess they only had one leg . |
| 20 | But er he never asked me , put it that way , what I thought was suitable machinery and he , as far as I know he never asked other rock men what they thought was suitable for the rock and other slate makers what they thought was suitable for inside the mill , or the diamond saw operators , what sort of saws they thought were the best . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he went on , trying to find excuses for himself , ‘ I reckon I always had some sort of imminence because I 'd feel a hunch rolling up inside me like a breaker on the ocean and I 'd just know what was going to win . |
| 22 | ‘ Suppose you suddenly had that feeling — tawdry — while you were walking up the aisle with George Beador . |
| 23 | But I guess they just got some way . |
| 24 | Just as Debbie was about to wind up the window , he suddenly asked her for a lift , saying he only lived 5 minutes down the road and could she drop him on her way ? |
| 25 | While on the whole we feel knowledge of the field-worker 's religion was not detrimental to the research , we believe it also had positive effects , in that it immediately forced respondents to confront their attitudes towards Catholics , as did the field-worker 's gender in relation to sex roles in the force , placing both issues high on the research agenda . |
| 26 | But when Mr Fitzpatrick was found he still had 300 dollars in his wallet and a camera slung around his shoulder . |
| 27 | As she watched he suddenly opened sightless eyes , rolled them upwards , then closed them with a sigh and fell again into his little semblance of death . |
| 28 | I told my father I was trying to get them over to the far side , to the mainland , and that the ones I had to bury , the ones which fell short , were victims of scientific research , but I doubt I really needed this excuse , my father never seemed bothered about the suffering of lower forms of life , despite having been a hippy , and perhaps because of his medical training . |
| 29 | Thought I just called that Silk Screen did n't I ? |
| 30 | She can still tell the police you were in that shooting and once they get you , you can forget you ever had any friends or were ever in the Army . |