Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She sent a few dogs to Ireland and , after the war , attempts to track them down only resulted in letters being sent back marked ‘ gone away ’ .
2 I only just stopped in time .
3 Furthermore , since I only recently arrived in France from England I am not exactly out of touch with the news from ‘ home ’ .
4 Hmm , well , okay , last night Mickey , you and I just about wrote off Lester Piggott 's career , and er today , well inside the last furlong of er one of his three races I believe today , this is how Rapid Raceline 's course commentator John Penny , saw the closing stages .
5 I also deeply sympathized with George because Lennie had practically spoiled his life yet George never seemed to complain .
6 I think it it it 's been suggested that er in s in some way that the employment aspect of the new settlement w would in some way prejudice erm regional objectors in in terms of Leeds regardment and I really just wanted to flag up that that I ca n't accept that , given the scale of development that that 's proposed .
7 I then slowly walked along Fulham Broadway in the complete darkness , as I knew the road past Halford School would be safe with the clergy around .
8 I no longer cared about Clive finding us together .
9 I s I , I never really played with Windows , I just installed it to do the job of running this one application and then left it alone .
10 While I had liked the Colonello very much , because of his courteous way of talking to me , I never really took to Camino — who seemed more English than the English with his stiff upper lip — although subsequently he behaved very well .
11 ‘ As strikers , we were always at opposite ends of the field so I never really came into contact with Frank on the park , ’ recalls Pearson .
12 She rarely even stopped for tea .
13 She obviously thoroughly disapproved of holidays and spent all her time polishing the plastic . ’
14 You just never knew with Lee .
15 So saying , she once again burst into tears and , crossing rapidly to George , threw her arms around his neck and stretching up on her toes , began to kiss him with a fervour which shocked him .
16 She no longer wrote to Ferdinando nor to anyone else except Ellen and these were dutiful enquiries after Oreste 's health with reports of her own and Pilade 's .
17 My grandmother paid for it — she never really came to terms with Mum 's moving abroad , and I think that was her way of making sure I never lost the other half of my inheritance . ’
18 Nilsson , firmly entrenched in her seventies , leaves her native Sweden only rarely nowadays and she never much cared for recording studios .
19 We then all got into taxis and we went off to the Coconut Grove at the top half of Regent Street where we spent until the small hours of the morning .
20 In the years that I have had to research my Bombing Years lectures I realise now that we never really got to grips with the German defences until the latter stages of the war .
21 and er I mean and these were three young girls , they only just started to work and yet they 'd got a car and as soon as they finished they they were going on this picnic
22 They even sometimes came in person .
23 They no longer looked like men .
24 They no longer lived in awe of their Big Brothers in the unions .
25 And of course they 'd never They very rarely thought of washing clothes in tap water those days , it was all rainwater .
26 Erm very common , you know s seventy three , twenty five , eighteen , erm they very often started at sort of seventy three or something like that .
27 It only ever happened at night .
28 It so nearly ended in tragedy .
29 Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved
30 But ‘ it just never felt like home , ’ adds Elaine .
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