Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My persistence paid off when the RCA relented and grudgingly allowed me to take my place on a joint MA course in the departments of Environmental Media and Design Education . |
| 2 | They are a mix of ordinary working-class people and affluent business families who were trapped in their town flats when the fighting started and now know they have lost their country homes for ever . |
| 3 | She did nor immediately help her to get her things together , but sat on the side of the bed and drew Millie towards her , saying , ‘ It 's a sorry day , child . |
| 4 | Carl Howard says he took it up at school and won … went on to county level and won and just found he had a natural talent … he 's always enjoyed sprinting and athletics |
| 5 | Well I was watching one of those Antique Road Shows quite recently and I found a chap got one of those little sort of two inch diameter one inch high chamber pots and he said and where did you get this and she said er at a car boot sale and he said and how much did you pay and she said twenty five P . |
| 6 | On the one hand , Parliament did not trust the police enough to give them the power they wanted and then let them get on with it . |
| 7 | We wanted to break the dreadful sex magazine mafia , allow people to buy what they wanted and maybe get them to understand the plumbing of sex . |
| 8 | She resisted the temptation to do as Paul suggested and instead made him pot after pot of black coffee and then drove him to his shop in Bridgetown . |