Example sentences of "[adj] and [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 | As it was we were just too much and he had enough trouble coping with himself . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | But some people got twenty six and they got yellow tickets as well . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Yeah , downstairs , Clara and erm and one just carried on going straight and I got seventeen things that I can eat |
| 17 | Uvarov 's position as education minister became untenable and he resigned six months later . |
| 18 | His father was forty-nine , his mother forty-two and he weighed twelve pounds — remarkable for that time and place . |
| 19 | That 's right and they paid some child |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Dennis Priestley was their professional and he scored 265 points . |
| 24 | He had been her dressmaker since the early thirties and they knew each other very well . |
| 25 | Which you used to light with a taper or something like that and they had little chains on to adjust your light . |
| 26 | and they sold that and they bought that house between them Romana 's mum and dad |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | We put up posters , we persuaded work colleagues to vote Labour and we made financial contributions . |
| 29 | In on the fourteenth of July of nineteen ninety three the defendant took out a summons with a view to having all the outstanding matters resolved and er this summons came before erm deputy master on the twelfth of August nineteen ninety three and he gave various directions including an enquiry in relation to how the surgery premises er ought to be dealt with as in court in the winding up of the partnership and that matter went before Mr Justice long in December and he decided those issues and gave directions in relation to and how the premises are to be sold , the effect of the directions very vaguely , is that the premises have to be offered to the partners , if only one of the partners shows any interest then there is provision in the relevant deed for ascertaining the price and this is put to that partner at that price , if more than one partner wishes to buy the premises then there is provision for a fixing of a minimum figure and then each of the partners has to put in sealed offers er and the premises will be sold to the partner , the former partner who put in the last offer , that broadly speaking I think is the substance of Mr Justice order . |
| 30 | I find that kind of back-door pressure disgraceful and it caused great concern to many people in my local association . |