Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BELVILLE : I would have it tomorrow , being Monday , for on a Monday seven weeks ago , I planned to carry her off and on a Monday I wrote the letter which prevailed on her so kindly to return to me . |
| 2 | Rose tried to throw her off and for a moment they became an indistinguishable tangle of clawing arms and jerking feet . |
| 3 | I asked if I could see the people who 'd brought me in and after a few minutes , Bunny and Rayleen appeared at the bedside . |
| 4 | Then she started swinging her round and round her head , faster and faster and Amanda was screaming blue murder and the Trunchbull was yelling , ‘ I 'll give you pigtails , you little rat ! ’ |
| 5 | salad , so I thought cut it up and in slices and put it in the casserole with some onions and an Oxo Cube |
| 6 | Well I , I , as I say , I did follow it up and in fact , I even went to a committee where I sat and spoke to the er the police face to face and they made all sorts of promises but nothing materialized . |
| 7 | It really did turn me on and after the first time I done it it it turned me on so much I come . |
| 8 | They reported , quite correctly , that over a dozen people had witnessed him in or around the vicinity of Cross Street at the appropriate time . |
| 9 | Children who received punishment as they reached for the attractive toy showed greater resistance to temptation than children punished just after they had picked it up or at a point several seconds later . |
| 10 | ‘ Ad enuff have you , boy ? ’ he said picking him up and with that he gave them all a brisk wave and disappeared down the steps , closing the hatch quickly behind him . |
| 11 | It had been worse than he had expected , but he had seen it through and without disgrace . |
| 12 | I keep telling him , I said lock it up and post the key through |
| 13 | Mrs Moore soon abandoned her pretence as chaperon — encouraged by the unexpected surliness of Colonel Hope who seemed , to her and her ward , in a mood unlike any other they had found him in and unlike any they could previously have invented for him . |
| 14 | Nurses had brought him up and by seven he was away at private school in England . |
| 15 | Four months in France had quietened her down and at the same time given her a veneer of sophistication quite lacking before . |
| 16 | ‘ I heard from a third party that Billy Bingham had left me out because of indiscipline , but there was nothing said at the time and he has not spoken to me since . ’ |
| 17 | Had singled her out because of it . |