Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You think because you 've read a few crappy books you know it all . ’ |
| 2 | That was once a week the bread , we used to have to collect the bread from Road , there was a small office at the side of the Infirmary I believe it was Mr or something like that , but we used to have to go to this office in Road and collect this four pound loaf every Wednesday and you did n't get another issue you had it all at once , so we had four four pound loaves , so we did n't know what new bread was after the first day , I 've never ate so much bread pudding in my life as I did then with a and er |
| 3 | At this moment she wanted him more than she had ever wanted anything in her life . |
| 4 | There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know . |
| 5 | So now I 'm trying to tell it to this pad he bought me this morning . |
| 6 | In different ways she loved them all ; even her weak-natured husband , who showered all of them with affection , and who was filled with excitement that , at long last , he was about to become a father in his own right . |
| 7 | Funny way they get them all the way out to the other side ! |
| 8 | She 's engaging brain it takes her some time to come out to the phone instruct the whole thing . |
| 9 | And this time I want us both to make an effort to keep things friendly and pleasant . |
| 10 | After cooking supper that was more like a banquet than an ordinary meal he played us some medieval things on the organ and then some Elizabethan things on the clavichord . |
| 11 | How hunky dory she kept it all . |
| 12 | In it he said of Mrs Thatcher , in the jocular way he addresses us all : ‘ I wish that cow would resign . ’ |
| 13 | Later that evening we watched it all on television again . |
| 14 | Did that job I give you this morning . |
| 15 | When she stopped her feeble battering I took her some tea topped up with a couple of powdered sleeping pills . |
| 16 | Over five thousand pound we pay you another fifteen percent . |
| 17 | We never asked for these technologies , and in the long run they give us fewer choices , not more . |
| 18 | Good job you saw it this morning and not last night then is it ? |
| 19 | Oh it was funny with Alison when I first saw her on when she was still a terrible state she let it all out in a great scream and I just let her talk and talk and talk |
| 20 | Now er they 're all Hand I take it those twenty fives are they ? |
| 21 | " But it 's a good thing I gave her that extra lavage yesterday . " |
| 22 | For a few terrible moments they saw it all , and cowered , covering their eyes . |
| 23 | Though some of these reasons are currently out of fashion in discussions of political authority I believe they all have their role to play , though some are more important in some societies than in others . |
| 24 | I do n't mind dancing with girls when it 's for Jamie , though one time with one tall lassie he wanted us both to go outside so he could kiss her . |
| 25 | They seemed to be doing fine , but just to be on the safe side we gave them another four days to adapt . |
| 26 | He would say nothing more a– he led her this way and that through the streets , doubling back often , like a fox laying a foil . |
| 27 | Being aggressive is just as bad as being submissive it really is because people swing to one side you know it some people are very good at being aggressive and are very good at diving in and getting their own way and just ju by being aggressive it 's naturally aggressive . |
| 28 | In nine months we get them all back again . |
| 29 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |
| 30 | One day they handed us some chipped potatoes , and there was enough oil on them to boil another portion . |