Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [coord] the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | He believed me and the next day suggested that I moved out . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | About sixty former members of the BUF joined him and the last phase of his career in English politics had begun . |
7 | Her knees touched his and the tiny contact sent a quiver of anticipation up her spine . |
8 | Maddox pressed it and the little circuit hummed with white light . |
9 | Church voluntary aided schools are , as I have said , a sort of partnership between the church which established them and the local education authority . |
10 | He watched me and the unmade bed , |
11 | They soon deserted her and the little girl was left to be raised in the house of ill repute run by her grandmother . |
12 | ‘ It 's better since you cleaned it and the new ribbon looks fine . ’ |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 ? |
18 | I kicked him and the long-life lead just come I kicked him again . |