Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's her ring and I bought her that scarf . ’ |
| 2 | He won that actually on appeal because he said he needed to raise the funds for a project he 'd got in mind and they allowed him twenty eight days in the first year , he now carries on fourteen days without planning permission every year , but give him credit he does run it very well , er and you can not fault him , but we in our area do actually issue licences , you can not have a car boot sale or market stall without a licence and I personally have run the charity markets in er the village high street and got a licence at the cost of a pound . |
| 3 | Brightening , she held out her glass to Richard and he poured her more wine . |
| 4 | Well as I say I went for this interview and she phoned me last Sunday did n't she ? |
| 5 | There were tracks over the snow and we followed them that day . |
| 6 | He asked me for a light and I offered him one of my Gauloises . |
| 7 | We normally try and estimate the full year tax charge and then apply it to six months and we got it wrong . |
| 8 | The farmer did n't actually refuse to take Mister Johnny but he made it clear he did n't really want him . |
| 9 | She told Cleveland coroner Michael Sheffield he became depressed through being out of work and it made him irritable and upset . |
| 10 | An orange circle of light , the beam from his torch , darted round the tent walls , there was the jingle of keys and I felt them cold in my hand . |
| 11 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 12 | Mrs Reid 's religion was the love of humanity and she found it hard that the first women 's college should win so very little understanding or support at its outset , especially from men . |
| 13 | That 's happened , I could n't get any one year I took the triplets to the erm Goose Hill coffee morning in the Town Hall and I gave them all money for the tombola and one of them won a Creme Egg |
| 14 | One difficulty lay in the endless commissions he received , usually for illustrative work within an established vein and which left him little time to experiment . |
| 15 | and she says she sat , she sat er still you know with her arms folded and all like that and she says , oh she says I think you er collect the books and stamp them and put them back on the shelves and she said they all laughed , but she got the job in opposition to er , a few others you know |
| 16 | Korda came from a broken home and it left him insecure . |
| 17 | We were all looking for some direction in our lives and they gave us that direction . |
| 18 | Cayard was recalled instantly by the committee but it took them 40 seconds to hoist the French recall signal , by which time they were well up the track . |
| 19 | Gwynn Jones received many other honours but none gave him greater pleasure than the publication of a selection of his poems , Detholiad o Ganiadau , by the Gregynog Press in 1926 , and the de luxe edition , issued in 1932–7 by Hughes & Son , Wrexham , of six volumes of selected poems and essays . |
| 20 | This was in connection with my RNR Sea Cadet duties but it gave me much more confidence on the navigational side of cutter service . |
| 21 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 22 | His body was rich with the smell of sweat and kahlua and he sent me sprawling and hyper with untold hormones upon the bathroom tiles , but one day , suddenly , actually it was night , parked atop Mulholland Drive with the car windows steamed and the upright stick shift pressing painfully against my lower back and my head banging against the passenger door , I was paralysed by the heaving horny heaviness of him and my climax was full and first — first time ever — but followed by a limpness in my body , dull as the shade of putrid beige , and later I dreamed he had invaded me in sleep and crushed me with his broadness and with pillows , though Crilly it was not suffocation I feared , no , it was something more abstract , more bodily and carnivorous , something akin to nameless reptiles , and it was not so very different from the gun and the windbreaker blowing large and puffy about a stranger 's gut like a tent in my car at Pico Boulevard , and I so sure I would be found dismembered and crotchless and gory and absurd , strewn from limb to limb across the green tweed upholstery , unrecognisable in death , and again the windows steamed , the windows steamed with that hot clenched nameless fist inside me and the glide of cool metal against my neck , and then there were no thoughts , no words in my head , nothing . |
| 23 | I implored him not to , but he was adamant , thus following Rear Admiral Poland who had resigned from Muirfield in consequence of my being blackballed there ( ‘ it makes no sense at all ’ , he wrote to the secretary , ‘ that he can be accepted as a guest but blackballed as a member ’ ) : both were sacrifices for which I felt a personal responsibility and which caused me much distress . |
| 24 | Redmond received many messages of sympathy and he answered them all last night when he promised : ‘ I will run again . |
| 25 | ‘ — and I was placed between Harry Burrows and Piers Langley and they told me all about hunting round here and really it was so interesting that I hardly noticed what we ate , some sort of fish and pheasant I think and , oh yes , there was an ice but by that stage , you know , I did n't have the smallest corner to put in so much as a mouthful — ’ |
| 26 | He retired after the last C E T and he gave me all his pens and stuff . |
| 27 | I , he asked me the one , you know , we were on about this morning , the only one we looked at , fifty miles an hour and he asked me that one and I knew it . |
| 28 | The breath was constricted in his chest and he found it difficult to swallow . |
| 29 | Shortly after Dick took off in his P-40 , Bill Dodds and I joined him airborne in a T-6 . |
| 30 | Later , while the rebel army celebrated their victory , Aurangzeb invited Murad Baksh to his tent and there got him drunk . |