Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your chairman was kind enough — before he let me loose on this most patient audience — to say that my attitude , for an historian , was very unhistorical and I took it that that was meant as praise . |
| 2 | It was just that the man he went to see kept him waiting from nine o'clock until almost ten . |
| 3 | It was the Metropolitan Makarii who nurtured Ivan the Terrible 's hugely inflated notion of his office , and who prepared the dramatic ceremony which saw him crowned in 1547 not as mere Grand Prince but as unfettered ‘ Tsar ’ ( derived from ‘ Caesar ’ ) . |
| 4 | ‘ What did you think of that then ? ’ |
| 5 | What did you have for sweet today ? |
| 6 | And what what wages did you get for that then ? |
| 7 | My Go , wha how did you get to that anyway ? |
| 8 | What did she do after that then ? |
| 9 | So why did she feel like this now ? |
| 10 | Did we look at those before ? |
| 11 | Where did the ships sail and what cargoes did they carry in 1500 AD ? |
| 12 | What did it mean for her-that little episode-what was its significance in the pattern ? |
| 13 | People never used to , years ago , why did it happen like that now ? |
| 14 | That — that man had me fired from that very first job , the one you organised for me back in South Africa when I left school ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You left me to cope with this alone , ’ Ari said accusingly . |
| 16 | I think she said Lynn said she finishes at two today . |
| 17 | Never in their whole married life had she spoken like that before . |