Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When this happened she had one option ; there was only one other perch available : my fist . |
| 2 | A soft rubber ball like a squash ball is easy to insert over each cane : your local squash club may be willing to give you discarded punctured balls . |
| 3 | The visitors were Arsenal and , while it still seems unfair to single out teams in this way , the intensity of attiude recorded by the referee 's hidden microphone made it easier to understand what happened last Saturday . |
| 4 | Well I have made some notes since you j can I just walk down and get them I want this to happen I made some notes , here . |
| 5 | As I understand it , MacAlpine is likely to withdraw the planning application for limited working it made last year and concentrate on pursuing its Interim Development Order application with Dyfed County Council . |
| 6 | A few of the Holocaust Armenians are in Beirut old people 's homes , too senile to record what happened 74 years ago . |
| 7 | She was impressed to see they had electric light . |
| 8 | ‘ — well anyway , I remembered the last time she was here this Mrs Heatherington-Scott made a set at Sir Harry Destry , like Thomas said , and — well , we all know what happened that time , do n't we ? |
| 9 | Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ? |
| 10 | Page 27 Buoyant Borland : Borland International said it expected second quarter results to beat analysts ' expectations after buoyant sales of Paradox , the US software company 's database product . |
| 11 | ‘ When I saw all th'trouble you caused ol' Nate here , I decided y'were n't gon na come out t'start on my patch when y'recovered . |
| 12 | The Inspector concluded , ‘ The questions we have to ask , therefore , and which we hope you may be able to help us shed some light on are , one , who was motivated to kill Hereward Marr ; two , what precisely might have provoked them to do it ; three , who drove the mini into the Broad and four , where is Mrs Marr at this moment ? ’ |
| 13 | You see , there are people in the City who would pay a vast sum of money to be able to boast they had real rabbit at one of their dinners . ’ |
| 14 | The only reason I did this was I did n't want anyone to know where I really went which was to a flat in Park Town where I am ashamed to say I watched some sex videos with three other people . |
| 15 | It is not quite accurate to call what happened last weekend ‘ appeasement ’ . |
| 16 | It would have been more accurate to say he preferred that version of events to any other , but one lie had committed him now to several distortions . |
| 17 | It is difficult to establish who published that document . |
| 18 | It seemed they would only be remembered for the effervescent day-glo Sixties pop which took popular root in Manhattan 's late Seventies downtown scene , where the songs Rock Lobster and Planet Claire first became free-spirited party anthems . |
| 19 | Most think he fired another shot into the government 's big toe . |
| 20 | The dangers which threaten those who make pronouncements about essential books in a National Curriculum had already been revealed when Mr Baker in a speech in 1988 said he thought all children aged 16 should have read George Orwell 's Animal Farm . |
| 21 | Put a bucket of food on the ramp at a distance from the horse sufficient to make him put one foot on the ramp . |