Example sentences of "[adv] and [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | made it down the right hand side , he 's wearing number eleven but he came down the right hand side on this occasion and er a deep cross , he pulled it back brilliantly and who 'd missed that earlier header was there and could n't really miss on this occasion , but it was a fine header by him . |
| 2 | In days gone by there had been little differences between the members of the party on the war policy , but the war was now over and they wanted to unite all their forces … |
| 3 | There was one field in particular that I had made some good finds on and I had searched this piece of land time and time again . |
| 4 | A good night out for me would be one where I got home and nobody had played any tricks on me . |
| 5 | Well I used to share a , share this flat with my mate and erm you know , she got a bit out of hand , she kept bringing all these people home and she kept having these parties and it was really difficult for me to study cos I used to go well I still try to go to college , but erm you know , it was really hard for me to study and made my life really , really difficult ! |
| 6 | So I put it up and I gave to like that , I went put them in the water ! |
| 7 | You could call ingenuity if you like and er but it 've , did apply my lad and er once you 'd got one , you could have er one cast and dress it up and you 'd got another one , you know what I mean . |
| 8 | Billy had been a close friend for over a year now and they had had some good times together . |
| 9 | And she 'd had an abortion the night before and she 'd died that day on the Monday . |
| 10 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 11 | I stopped smoking two years ago and I stopped doing all the silly drugs and drink nearly six years ago , so you naturally gravitate towards quite a healthy diet . |
| 12 | I were right here and I 'd got that light out |
| 13 | Turned out the last time the staff had seen him he was a student here and he 'd made such an arsehole of himself they 'd sworn they 'd never let him back in ! |
| 14 | It goes on to say and it came about that in thy journeying eastward they eventually discovered a valid plain and a land of Shinar and they took up growing there and they began to say each one to the other come on let us make bricks and bake and bake with a burning process , so bricks served as stone for them and |
| 15 | And I 'd got them here and I thought well I do n't know what to do with them and I b b interested in I 'm interested in going back in time , I 'll go anywhere where I can see something and I 'd been over there and they 'd got some Home Guard stuff in a case , only a small show , and I asked them if they 'd like it and they said yes . |
| 16 | As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country . |
| 17 | This time the press and the media were there and I declined to make any comment on the negotiations . |
| 18 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |