Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could not be accomplished on the run though I made some schematic doodles based on observation : the way , for example , drainage run-off channels bulldozed off the sides of the track echoed the pattern of the tree branches or veins on a leaf . |
| 2 | By midnight we were all yawning hard and so I made some strong coffee to wake us up . |
| 3 | and I mean that young fullback looked brilliant ! |
| 4 | I mean one little boy came in , and he said , What 's that sword doing on the table ? |
| 5 | I mean grave grave diggers went on strike , hospitals went on strike , could n't bury your dead . |
| 6 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 7 | and I met this gorgeous boy called Steven and I said oh darling where 'd you come from , where |
| 8 | As I turned away and headed back the way I had come I passed two dead cows lying on the grass , large shrapnel wounds on their bodies . |
| 9 | I was even more frightened the next morning , when I passed some large blood clots instead of urine , I became very agitated because I thought I must be dying ’ . |
| 10 | Most of the ‘ up ’ occurred soon after leaving Courmayeur , hence I passed several exhausted bodies littered by the wayside . |
| 11 | I got two other evenings to do at school now . |
| 12 | So for the majority of formulae that 's all you need to do to make the formulae copyable , so when I got this extra product to insert just insert the rows , copy the formula down and that change is made very quickly indeed , I do n't have to spend a lot of time understanding and editing the formulae . |
| 13 | I got this real urge to speak to someone on the phone — I du n no who — just someone . |
| 14 | got cod roe and fish cakes for supper and bought four salmon heads ( OH how I hate those glazed eyes looking at me when first one steams them to get the good flesh off ) for soup . |
| 15 | I am proud of what I have done as a practising solicitor and I expect all other solicitors feel the same . |
| 16 | I found fourteen wounded men waiting the doctor 's care in the gun-room , which was almost a pool of blood . |
| 17 | I found some much-Tippexed poems typed on foolscap , plus about twenty or so printed A4 pages which looked like they were part of a play or film script . |
| 18 | I want some hot water to clean up |
| 19 | ‘ Use whatever method you can , but I want this little vixen barking in four hours ’ time at the latest ! ’ |
| 20 | I hope that blooming chequebook comes . |
| 21 | I HOPE all Roman Catholics note the Pope 's declaration that gambling is a sin . |
| 22 | ‘ I hope this young man does the same ! ’ said Angel warmly . |
| 23 | I hope this fucking kid do n't play with that every day |
| 24 | ‘ She said she had had a wonderful time and liked the people of Merseyside , so I hope this unfortunate incident does n't remain in her mind . ’ |
| 25 | I hope some lucky starling catches it before it evaporates . |
| 26 | I live in a town called Chastlecombe , where I create expensive hand-knitted sweaters to sell to tourists . |
| 27 | ‘ When I was designing Metaltronix gear , I made everything bigger , for product visibility , but I would get letters telling me that the Marshall ‘ standard ’ head dimensions were what they wanted , so that 's what I based these new amp heads on . |
| 28 | Always makes me sad when I hear some old family has to sell up . " |
| 29 | On my way to my London flat , as I walk through a passageway leading from the Strand to Charing Cross underground station , I pass two young men sitting on a sheet on the floor and begging . |
| 30 | I love my unborn baby deeply , just as I know other teenage mothers do . |