Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [coord] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The nurses panicked and made me and the other mother sign forms saying that we definitely had our own babies . ’ |
| 2 | so therefore the Irish people designed it and the Irish people gone bust and out of business |
| 3 | He believed me and the next day suggested that I moved out . |
| 4 | He gathered his great strength , remembered the lessons he had learned abroad , and drove himself and the weary men on to do what must be done . |
| 5 | This was a parting gift but I dropped mine and the bloody dogs were on it in a flash , whilst Benjamin , kind as ever , gave his to the page who served us . |
| 6 | It was n't the French that threw me but the arty design which was about as easy to follow as the plot of Twin Peaks . |
| 7 | If you lay on the ground whining it incensed them and the subsequent kicks and punches were harder and aimed at the mouth and head rather than the stomach and back . |
| 8 | She claimed she and the murdered girl had been drinking with the old man , and that he had killed her friend , but the old man was acquitted and McLachlan was sentenced to hang . |
| 9 | Strains of The Rolling Stones , The Faces , Bad Company and Free floated to the surface ( mainly due to Chris Robinson 's earthy vocal ) , but dig a little deeper and , like all good things , something special eventually showed itself and The Black Crowes proved that they were birds of another feather entirely . |
| 10 | The curtains were drawn back as far as they would go , and whenever she looked up the green-brown panorama confronted her and the pale bowl of sky . |
| 11 | About sixty former members of the BUF joined him and the last phase of his career in English politics had begun . |
| 12 | Her knees touched his and the tiny contact sent a quiver of anticipation up her spine . |
| 13 | Maddox pressed it and the little circuit hummed with white light . |
| 14 | and er , I think the younger people quite enjoyed it but the older ones , of course , found it bit of a bind , er particularly after erm the sort of patriotic fervour |
| 15 | Church voluntary aided schools are , as I have said , a sort of partnership between the church which established them and the local education authority . |
| 16 | That 's what puzzled me and the other villagers . |
| 17 | He watched me and the unmade bed , |
| 18 | They soon deserted her and the little girl was left to be raised in the house of ill repute run by her grandmother . |
| 19 | dropped Asdir off and she drove away and I saw her and the four children go , along to the house |
| 20 | ‘ It 's better since you cleaned it and the new ribbon looks fine . ’ |
| 21 | All at once I was gusted along , and really felt : a heartbeat when I saw him , a warmth when he touched me ; I smelt the flowers he bought me and the spicy perfume he put on his skin . |
| 22 | At Albufeira no one ever bothered me and the local fishermen were only too happy to accept the lead fishing weights I found , so I do n't suppose they reported me . |
| 23 | So Mr talked in the debate about internal reorganisation about continuing to provide services for which there is an over provision and it berated me and the Labour group for that . |
| 24 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 25 | We had booked up for the ordinary ship and , and rail you know , to go over by ship and rail but er during the months awaiting the , I think we were going in July and er we had booked up maybe about April , but they had put these planes on and Polytechnic wrote to us and said , if we paid two pounds ten extra , we could go by air and we did it and the full tour for a week in Paris , going by air , was twelve pounds ten . |
| 26 | And the burning question : did he and the other comedians have a couple of drinks or healthy snorts before the shows ? |
| 27 | How did he and the Stray Cats meet up ? |
| 28 | No , that 's what I mean there have been three big ones very recently , cos like syndicate won it and the old lady won it and that other woman , that younger woman won it right what I 've done , all bits together what time do you think we 'll be back ? |
| 29 | This marathon forced me and the bored students to examine the subject very closely . |
| 30 | I kicked him and the long-life lead just come I kicked him again . |