Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It showed as they rattled up 18 unanswered points in the last 10 minutes — including a 50th test try for Campese — to inflict the Boks ' heaviest-ever defeat , and give their retiring skipper a rousing send off . |
| 2 | It smashed and he picked up one the table legs and used it to hit her . ’ |
| 3 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 4 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 5 | I knew before I started out that , weatherwise , the end of March is not the time to plan a journey to the Islands and my misgiving proved to be well founded as on Tuesday 23 March I found myself in the lounge at Dalcross Airport , Inverness watching gale force winds sweep snow across the runways . |
| 6 | I dreamt that I went down those signless roads to the assembly of Leprechauns by a river of stars , and we embarked in an armada of fairy boats , and sailed till the dawn to an unimaginable sea . |
| 7 | Now what you did when you worked out seventy eight per cent , you say seventy eight over a hundred , and you put it in your calculator , and you did seventy eight divided by a hundred , and that gave you nought point seven eight . |
| 8 | He had forgotten all about Gina , as he usually did when he chatted up pretty girls . |
| 9 | She said that she woke up one day and did not feel lost or depressed , did not wonder what she was going to do with herself or reach for the phone to try and summon up some company . |
| 10 | This post continued until he retired in early 1952 . |
| 11 | He waited while I tore off one of the orange-coloured tickets , then another one . |
| 12 | Nina said as she handed round steaming mugs . |
| 13 | ‘ Have some skoosh , ’ Ash said as I sat down next to her . |
| 14 | And as Clara walked back towards her college hostel , she thought about Clelia , and wondered whether she dealt out all her friendships with so lavish a hand , or whether , once more in her life , she could count on some peculiar blessing . |
| 15 | Dexter 's notebook rustled as he turned over another page . |