Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We normally try and estimate the full year tax charge and then apply it to six months and we got it wrong . |
| 2 | An orange circle of light , the beam from his torch , darted round the tent walls , there was the jingle of keys and I felt them cold in my hand . |
| 3 | and she says she sat , she sat er still you know with her arms folded and all like that and she says , oh she says I think you er collect the books and stamp them and put them back on the shelves and she said they all laughed , but she got the job in opposition to er , a few others you know |
| 4 | We were all looking for some direction in our lives and they gave us that direction . |
| 5 | They sported ditches and hedges and he built them proper jumps in the hedgerows to practise over and life got far more earnest and dangerous . |
| 6 | I remember Mrs Seaton gave us some mince pies and we ate them hot , sitting on the floor in front of the tree — just the two of us . |
| 7 | His hair was a little white in places and he found it difficult talking to people . |
| 8 | But then I had another er one within er two years and I had them both fairly quickly . |
| 9 | ‘ We became roommates and I taught him all he knows . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ A horse and a cart that stands as high as a house and cost the best part of thirty pounds and you lost them both ? ’ |
| 11 | As for the three goblins , they crept back to the king of the vookodlaks and he beat them all , and made them stand on their heads in the mud for three years and thirty days . |
| 12 | He had some Hoola Hoops and he crunched them all up and then he went |
| 13 | Good do you remember a long time ago doing factor trees and I gave you three sixty to do ? |
| 14 | Before leaving him , we shook hands and he gave us each a yellow , fine-pointed Biro pen with which he was so fond of writing : a signal and a last gesture of kindness . |
| 15 | I did have a load of that tops and I took them all down the . |
| 16 | My grandmother gave my a set of oil paints when I was four and she got really angry because they were wee tiny tubes and I squeezed them all out in one go and started painting like Frank Auerbach . |
| 17 | My grandmother gave my a set of oil paints when I was four and she got really angry because they were wee tiny tubes and I squeezed them all out in one go and started painting like Frank Auerbach . |
| 18 | I usually keep him in when I wash his clothes and I got them special for the cold weather so he should be all right . |
| 19 | Blood-stained trousers indicated that Putt had suffered other injuries and he made it clear that he was unable to walk . |
| 20 | Er we 've got a little few earmarked funds left over like for instance , Theakston 's Brewery gave us the barrels and they gave us two and a half thousand pounds . |
| 21 | I remembered that German lad at er sat at side and I gave of one my gun buttons and he gave me this postcard . |
| 22 | Well I said Angie said she went up Wicks ' and got her worktops and it cost her fifteen pound . |