Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was fourteen feet of snow floods but the main thing about these people , they took their jackets off and got stuck in and they became special people because they laid the foundation of the welfare state that everybody else in this room g gained out of . |
| 2 | Anyway , they all came in and we had this instant party which was very pleasant . |
| 3 | We went in and we paid seven pounds for me and my mum to get in , we did n't pay for the kids cos if they know they 're gon na sit on your lap , they get in there for nothing , but once we get in there we give them their own chair anyway , providing you go in like it 's not in the first week , the following week when the show is quieter and not so many people going |
| 4 | I put a couple of quid in and I got four pounds something cos er went and bought some fags out of the machine and then I got the er the brown note flashing , from ten P so I stopped I have stopped . |
| 5 | And then we started the rehearsal scene and Rock Hudson walks in and he took one look at me and says , ‘ Where are my glasses ? ’ |
| 6 | He really marched in and he pulled 20 lengths ahead of the other two just walking . |
| 7 | window sill on there , say , and then this comes down and they got French windows at the bottom . |
| 8 | It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be |
| 9 | Now when we were taught sums like that , probably erm they were written down and we had special ways of writing it to distinguish between the two cases four times and then two plus one added together , to give us four times three equals twelve , or , four times two , which is eight , add one , which is nine . |
| 10 | One lass went down and she had some glass or something , and she was threatening to slash her wrists and there was a screw shouting , ‘ Well do it . |
| 11 | We went with Traffens one year , the first year in fact we went with Traffens and that was super because when we got to the other side sort of , it was then about ten o'clock he said well if you if there 's enough people want it we will transform your transform your seats into bunks and most people wanted and you were able to push the seats so one , two pairs of seats one of the seats went up and the other went down and you had four bunks |
| 12 | Anyway he come down and he got this box with disks in |
| 13 | ‘ Me and my sister and my uncle — my sister , who 's a scientist , right ? — we were walking along and we saw this light go across the sky , then it stopped and made this complete square , then it was gone . ’ |
| 14 | So I went over and I bought two necklaces , I gave them to Julie who made the shirt , and she took them apart |
| 15 | She knew an instant 's anger at her own lack of foresight — she should have known Adam 's inquisitor would n't be alone — then all the training she 'd undergone in self-defence took over and she jabbed both elbows savagely backward , hearing her attacker give a pained grunt as his grip on her loosened . |
| 16 | The papers are all subjected to these for several Conferences before they 're voted on and we lay great emphasis on achieving consensus on any motion , and I think today on the Palestine/Israel debate , which is obviously a very contentious issue , it went through in about half an hour , very calmly , very peacefully , because a lot of hard work had been done . |
| 17 | In 1974 I was at the National Theatre doing Shakespeare with Sir John Gielgud and whenever there was a play it was in repertory form , so another play came on and I had five days off , so I 'd fly to Toronto , have a three day ‘ loon ’ in Canada and then come back . |
| 18 | Well I was out there watering at time scares was on and I had this letter and planes did come over and I laid me ho hosepipe down , I mean you know so he would n't be able |
| 19 | Now in nineteen er nineteen fifteen , the the of course the War 'd started and I can remember this so well because the day after me birthday er there was a raid , a Zeppelin raid on and I saw this Zeppelin and that day the thirty first of January nineteen fifteen when this raid was , I wen I went to work at six in the morning and I finished work at quarter to nine at night . |
| 20 | But he took his cap off and he had grey hair . |
| 21 | We went out , we took photographs , we come back , we printed them up and we helped each other to learn more techniques and whatever . |
| 22 | He looked up and he saw two people walking or appearing to walk away from him down the white road of the tunnel and out across the green hills . |
| 23 | In July 1978 , his ambitions on the educational front were well stoked up and he took six CSEs . |
| 24 | There was the board of governors sitting at the back on this cold grey Monday and I got up and I did some Shakespeare and by the time I finished , dawn was breaking . |
| 25 | We got out over and we had n't got twenty yards when the flares went up and it became undiluted hell |
| 26 | Anyhow I went out and I got this baby nest shawl thing |
| 27 | And unfortunately I 'd eaten a large quantity of this Afghani black and I was really bombed out and I slept half way through Jimi Hendrix and I could have kicked myself . |
| 28 | Then one night I went out and I met this DJ from Taboo , which was a club at the time . |
| 29 | A doctor was called out and he diagnosed some kind of virus and prescribed a course of antibiotics . |
| 30 | And the woman lost her brooch on the way back and she saw this man next morning , he was a policeman in , and he he was too fond of the drink , a and he he was on , he was a railway policeman , and he fell onto the rails , when the train was coming , nobody knows how he how he how he er he lost one arm er about there and the other one about there , both arms but he he survived it . |