Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [pron] [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh it would n't have cost nothing , it would cost me something if I got caught in them days bloody ration . |
| 2 | ‘ Georgina said she 'd looked through his papers last night . ’ |
| 3 | to until erm until when I came back after I 'd spoken to my parents that weekend . |
| 4 | D' ya know , I got weighed on my scales other day , and I thought , I were eleven stone again . |
| 5 | Not only did Marx and Engels require tools for seeing society in a new way , they also needed to understand under what circumstances this newly defined system produced the institutions which other social scientists had studied . |
| 6 | He managed to escape from his captors two nights later , only to be betrayed by an Arab and retaken by the Italians . |
| 7 | He had looked at her papers three months ago , when the posting had been announced , and had noted how well educated she was . |
| 8 | If they came in , with food or to check us over , we always had to put on our hoods first . ’ |
| 9 | There was plenty of material to work from : Latin was compulsory at Plumford Grammar School ; the English master had drummed into their memories large sections of Macaulay 's Lays of Ancient Rome ; they had read novels with a Roman background , like Rosemary Sutcliff 's Eagle of the Ninth and Robert Graves ' I , Claudius ; and they could plunder Hubert Molland 's classical library for further information as the need arose . |
| 10 | Just under half ( 48% ) of women marrying for the first time in 1987 had lived with their husbands prior to marriage compared with 19% of those marrying in the late 1970s and only 7% of those marrying in 1971 . |