Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so we did this and we had this bungalow at Mablethorpe which is still running , we 've been down , we went down a few weeks ago . |
| 2 | You could say well , Jackie took this and you got one leg on this table shorter than the other legs and we 've jammed it under there levels the table up . |
| 3 | Her eyes were nearer black than brown and she wore woollen knee stockings ; from a distance she could have been mistaken for a child , of either sex . |
| 4 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 5 | The morning was damp and I licked some dew from the lawn . |
| 6 | I was never popular and I had few friends , but such friendships as I made were mostly lasting . |
| 7 | There was a charming and I thought authentic baroque quality to the musicians ' solos . |
| 8 | During this period her message became increasingly apocalyptic and she disrupted public meetings and religious gatherings , acquiring a following of several women and arousing the antagonism of the Quaker leaders , who tried unsuccessfully to restrain her . |
| 9 | High dose corticosteroids were unhelpful and he underwent ileal resection with a 12 month remission . |
| 10 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 11 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 12 | One of my favourite presidents , Theodore Roosevelt , president from the early part of the twentieth century and known as the damned cowboy erm you might be interested to know how people become president erm Theodore Roosevelt was an arch imperialist and got very excited about the er war with Spain er America had a s little brief war with Spain at the end of the nineteenth century erm over the possession of Cuba , and erm in eighteen ninety eight , and this aroused great patriotic feelings in all red blooded Americans and especially in Theodore Roosevelt and er er Roosevelt formed his own company of cavalry called the Rough Riders and erm Roosevelt wore glasses and was asthmatic but he had this group called the Rough Riders , sort of early kind of Clint Eastwood stuff , and erm anyway he g he was engaged in the war with Spain er and there was one wonderful moment in the war Spain in which the Spaniards were at the top of a hill called the San Juan hill er and er Teddy , as he was known , of course he gave his name to the teddy bear , did you know that did you ? |
| 13 | As it was we were just too much and he had enough trouble coping with himself . ’ |
| 14 | The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation . |
| 15 | Oh I , I said that to you at the time Robert , I mean I 'll be honest and I saw that document and I nearly died and it 's the way they say it too |
| 16 | But some people got twenty six and they got yellow tickets as well . |
| 17 | The following afternoon Heather called for Shirley , who was in her Six and who lived two doors away from her , and asked her to go with her to Olinton Farm to get some butter . |
| 18 | Yeah , downstairs , Clara and erm and one just carried on going straight and I got seventeen things that I can eat |
| 19 | Uvarov 's position as education minister became untenable and he resigned six months later . |
| 20 | His father was forty-nine , his mother forty-two and he weighed twelve pounds — remarkable for that time and place . |
| 21 | The depiction of the Legion itself might not have been truly authentic but what gave Black Legion much of its initial impact was that the story with all its political message and melodrama was very firmly set in a very real community of American working men . |
| 22 | That 's right and they paid some child |
| 23 | Then I got my seventy odd and she got another week 's money and we just put it all together and we split it down the middle said right there 's your half , there 's mine |
| 24 | One of the pupils of Northampton High School to achieve distinction was Bernard L. Pitcher , who was born deaf and who received six years of private tuition before entering the school . |
| 25 | The estate and the house might both be high-value assets , but the conditions of his inheritance forced him to keep both intact and he got little currency out of them beyond the woodland leases and the shooting rights . |
| 26 | Dennis Priestley was their professional and he scored 265 points . |
| 27 | He had been her dressmaker since the early thirties and they knew each other very well . |
| 28 | Which you used to light with a taper or something like that and they had little chains on to adjust your light . |
| 29 | and they sold that and they bought that house between them Romana 's mum and dad |
| 30 | I said one night er this matey 's come up to me , and he 's like one of me mates and that and he said fucking hell you had a skinful the other night did n't you ? |