Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er there was a time , they got so If you had carried it too green , erm you er it could catch fire . |
| 2 | The people filling the board room steamed gently as they sat huddled together on the rows of chairs arranged neatly in front of the big desk . |
| 3 | I got myself invited along as I wanted to find out what drove him to travel all the way from Surrey to South Wales nearly every weekend . |
| 4 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 5 | Her slender body trembled helplessly as she lay gazing up at his tall , lithe figure , her normally pale cheeks covered by a hectic flush of rising excitement . |
| 6 | She loosened up after she 'd had a bit to drink and told me about it . |
| 7 | The camera panned back as he prepared to play . |
| 8 | He replaces Mr Karel Urbanek , the former railway worker , appointed last month and discredited almost before he had started . |
| 9 | I believe the denial of the PSI report and the furore it caused occurred precisely because it managed to get beneath the surface of police culture to explore the deep structures of belief and to comment adversely about their influence on police activities . |
| 10 | I moved there because I had to find a way to support myself . ’ |
| 11 | Just after eleven , more people began to arrive as the pubs chucked out and so Dosh and I ( or maybe it was Freddie ) moved upstairs where we 'd found another front room which had been stripped of furniture and somebody had run a pair of extra speakers off the disco in the lounge . |
| 12 | The arrests came soon after they had sent an open letter to Sassou Nguesso calling for multiparty democracy . |
| 13 | The knock on the door came just after he had put out the light . |
| 14 | The big one dropped just as they began to relax . |
| 15 | So we set to under our section corporal , Jimmy Brough , and slogged away until we had completed ten such excavations , wondering where the tents were that were to fill them . |
| 16 | It all came back once he began to think about it . |
| 17 | to until erm until when I came back after I 'd spoken to my parents that weekend . |
| 18 | She had to wait until her passport came back because she had cashed a traveller 's check to pay the bill . |
| 19 | ‘ I only came back because I wanted to take another look at you , to see if you 'd really changed . |
| 20 | We were told not to do this , told not to come here , told to sledge and throw snowballs and make snowmen all we wanted , but not even to come near the loch and the river , in case we fell through the ice ; and yet Andy came here after we 'd sledged for a while on the slope near the farm , walked down here through the woods despite my protests , and then when we got here to the river bank I said well , as long as we only looked , but then Andy just whooped and jumped down onto the boulder-lumped white slope of shore and sprinted out across the pure flat snow towards the far bank . |
| 21 | I came here because I wanted to get away , only … ’ |
| 22 | I do n't see how she can do the hours , with the hours that she 's doing , I mean she 's still in the Penny Farthing when I came here cos I went to pay her the money . |
| 23 | It was Tuesday lunchtime , and they were sitting in the restaurant at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in the Mall ; Ginny often ate there when she had had enough of the food and the company in the canteen of the British Council . |
| 24 | Look , stop this stupidness , Callum , ’ Robyn added irritably as he began nuzzling her neck . |
| 25 | He ate steadily until he had to go . |
| 26 | We went the shop and she Anthony a pound , she give Sam a pound I mean , she was a good girl and she 'd afterwards cos she 'd opened her mouth but she said , I should n't have had any should I ? |
| 27 | She 'd perhaps take the plugs out dinnertime when she got home when it had stopped . |
| 28 | He tittered nervously as he tried to see through the glare of the flames . |
| 29 | She tried to sound calm and reassuring , but he turned away before she had finished speaking , as if her words meant nothing to him . |
| 30 | He turned left when they had passed the hotels , parked the car in the space reserved for vehicles and they climbed out , stretched , stood looking at the view . |