Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then glancing at Agnes , she said , ‘ Aggie asked me to take some towels across to the house for the people coming in tomorrow . ’ |
| 2 | The Harpers became worried when their daughters did not return to the family home in Cheltenham and reported them missing 24 hours later . |
| 3 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 4 | In the latest they were called to the home of a man in his early 20s in Frenchgate , Richmond , but found they needed more equipment so took him back to the Richmond Fire Station and released the cuffs with a hacksaw and vice . |
| 5 | ‘ Arazi came to today 's race after enduring all sorts of problems — the trip to America for the Kentucky Derby , a hard race at Ascot when he was n't right and an injury which stopped him running two weeks ago . |
| 6 | Nick found he disliked this idea very much . |
| 7 | It seemed he heard that question again , a thousand years ago and in another world . |
| 8 | She said , well , she said , I asked you to take four people home and you said , No I 'm sorry . |
| 9 | He claimed she had salted money away in Brazil , where she fled briefly before returning to be arrested , using Liberian companies and bank accounts in Monaco and Luxemburg . |
| 10 | He ordered me to cut this lot immediately ’ — he laid heavy stress on the word , his mouth twisted in a sardonic grin — ‘ and I told him it would have to wait till this afternoon . ’ |
| 11 | When she walked she moved each hip separately , like a gunslinger moving towards an opponent down Main Street . |
| 12 | ‘ I nearly killed myself carrying those things home ’ . |
| 13 | However , since the database files were in dBASE format , it is possible to interrogated them using this software rather than Doctor Data if you choose . |
| 14 | For a period in the 1950s she flirted with Roman Catholicism , and whether her Catholic point of view made her see moral issues exclusively within a religious framework , or whether she simply did not share the same experience as English-born-and-raised writers who faced the dissolution of their class system is difficult to judge . |
| 15 | I phoned Annie and asked her to cancel both performances today , and those on Monday and Tuesday . |
| 16 | It was that — that sense of unpreparedness — which made him feel restless standing there ; made him turn and pace the room impatiently . |
| 17 | ‘ If we made him do cold turkey straight after the barbs , he 'd get the DTs , you know ? |
| 18 | I asked him to bring those girls here . |
| 19 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought you had powerful friends too , ’ he said to Owen . |
| 21 | I thought she said local library actually . |
| 22 | Insertion of a ventilation tube in only one ear enabled us to assess this procedure both alone and in combination with adenoidectomy and adenotonsillectomy . |
| 23 | One of his specialities is a droning refrain , performed I think some years ago on one of those Saturday morning comedy-pop-and-hobbies programmes for children , in which a long-haired tennis-player with a head band gives out with his sporting autobiography . |
| 24 | Where did you go last night then ? |
| 25 | where did you go last night then ? |
| 26 | ‘ Did you bring that boat here ? ’ |
| 27 | Did you bring some waterproofs too ? |
| 28 | Did you dream that dream just the once then ? |
| 29 | " Where did you meet these Hodges anyway ? |
| 30 | In the process of making them , did you meet any opposition apart from that which you said may have come from the medical malpractice fear ? |