Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we went to er Zoe 's place there they 'd got some tins , that Megazone tin what I 've got |
| 2 | Now during the war when we had to have all the windows sealed and blacked out that place became very warm and very uncomfortable to work in . |
| 3 | He looked around the room where she had spent much of the last few years . |
| 4 | The love of Leonora 's life was sailing , and during the summer months she spent her Sundays on the water at the local reservoir , weeknights at the tennis club or the cinema , and in the winter she took part in as many activities as possible in the small town where she 'd lived all her life . |
| 5 | The first foreign office librarian had been appointed in 1800 : when he retired a decade later he had organised this mass of papers into a systematic and usable collection . |
| 6 | ‘ Why do you ask so many questions , you irritating little brat ? ’ cried Mr Fractor one day when he had had enough . |
| 7 | I 've never seen him go so mad , far worse than the usual Saturday night when he had lost all his money gambling and came home so drunk that we all had to hide under the bed . |
| 8 | Julius stood and watched her go , and wondered what else she would have said to him if she had known the complete truth ; that he had known from the very start exactly who had sent that poison pen letter to her . |
| 9 | Frances smiled at the chair where she 'd left all her weary years . |
| 10 | P. P. I used to go down a street and perhaps a week previously I had locked that fellow up and I used to walk past him and if they said anything to me I 'd say , ‘ Shut up and get inside . ’ |
| 11 | So he 's fucking ground floor so I thought fuck this . |
| 12 | During the journey home she sat pondering this fact , at the same time realising she must not allow her thoughts to become emotionally involved with this devastating man . |
| 13 | But erm when I lost my sight then he had to close that down and come back so we were all under one roof again . |
| 14 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 15 | He says , I feel awful we were making plans that being the week to go out so they had trouble with wagon so we had to spend some time on wagon . |
| 16 | Once you 'd done a new paragraph like they did like this blah blah blah in here . |
| 17 | Over a year ago she had written another book , The Professor , and sent it to one publisher after another . |
| 18 | And and in this the street where you lived did most people have taps |
| 19 | that 's right , erm she had said at the time when they had raised all this money that er mostly gon na be spent on erm |
| 20 | It was characteristic that a small , relatively unimportant detail of that kind — from his point of view , not mine — should have occupied his time when he had assumed this enormous burden . |
| 21 | I knew I needed some place to go inside myself — frighten people off — so I shoved three tapes and my Walkman in the middle of the bag beside the big fat envelope where I 'd squeezed all my dreams . |
| 22 | Will he tell the House why he decided to override that advice ? |
| 23 | Every minute she was in the house where she had spent most of her life , crowded as it was with memories of her parents and her grandfather , made it more difficult to bear up . |