Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told them the only way we could agree to a news-blackout was if they co-operated with us and gave us a free hand in the investigation . ’ |
| 2 | My ever difficult told me the other night I needed to change my attitudes and lifestyle and to realise I would not get another job at my age . |
| 3 | Being certainly lost an opportunity by not being it 's only body there is an editing element in the book publishing section from the P G B and there are elements relating to us in the S P G of the Periodical Training Council and there will be bits of them in the public relations in the marketing one of which I 've got a copy of the draft , but you know there is nothing all embracing B T E C do graphics and journalism but there is no single forum , I mean that 's what so astonishing and interestingly somebody at B T E C told me the other day there 's been a bit of a problem about the the book editing part of the editing level three element um , and that 's partly political as to editing versus production because production 's level four and editing is level three , and that has made some problems apparently |
| 4 | To start with I went along to visit local parent , Mrs Audrey Durrant , who told me the main problem she faces as the mother of a ten year old dyslexic boy . |
| 5 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 6 | Ken Gillance , defending , said Lamont was not connected with vice but Welsh told him the previous day she had almost been run down by one of Roth 's friends . |
| 7 | But her own body told her a different story which , lying here for the long days of rest which had been prescribed for her , she had heard clearly enough through the bird-twitter of Linnet and her mother , and Tristan 's determined joviality . |
| 8 | Rachel told her the only thing she could : that her sister had a mild indisposition , and I was her understudy . |
| 9 | ‘ He looks very comfortable on the ball and scored us a fabulous goal which set up the win . |
| 10 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |
| 11 | ‘ I must confess I 'm pretty sick about it all , ’ he said seriously , then when she threw him a startled glance he suddenly grinned . |
| 12 | Du Camp in one of his books — I forget which , there were always so many — made a reference to the malign effect on man of too much solitude , he called it a false counsellor who nurses at her breasts the twin infants of Egotism and Vanity . |
| 13 | They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien . |
| 14 | Her agent — perhaps he was n't the best in the world — never got her an American tour which , again , might have made all the difference . |
| 15 | I suggested to Lord Bonham-Carter that his pedigree inevitably made him a political appointee himself : |
| 16 | And erm they offered me a green ginger you see |
| 17 | ‘ As far as I could judge , he thought me an incompetent idiot who ought to be minding his own business . |
| 18 | I was fourteen at the time , so was she ; she sent me a signed photograph which I keep in the breast pocket of my school blazer until both photograph and blazer fell apart . |
| 19 | And they , the company wrote back and said it 's so much a policy and looks reasonable and I sent them a bloody cheque you see |
| 20 | Holly offered her a sympathetic smile which was not acknowledged . |
| 21 | They thought him a genuine socialist who had tackled the capitalists — something the SPD had failed to do , and had hopes for a brighter future when the war was won . |
| 22 | The only difference her success made was that she thought her an incompetent fool who was lucky enough to make a bit of money . ’ |
| 23 | And to cap it all , it had to be on a case as weird as this that they sent him a Substitute Prosecutor who watched his performance with amused detachment . |
| 24 | And it was it was so nicely written I I saw it the other day it was no difference . |
| 25 | He felt it a boring thing he had to do as he would probably rather do something else but nevertheless it had to be done , not to save his reputation but restore his self-respect which he felt he did not have fully if someone was allowed to insult him and get away with it . |
| 26 | Because it eventually went it a high court you remember . |
| 27 | He placed his arm round my waist , which gave me a pleasurable feeling I 'd never experienced , and then we set off to the picture house . |
| 28 | I remember being unable to connect those grainy breasts and pubic hair with anything in my own life — flesh , for instance — but the image gave me a mysterious frisson which I mistakenly took for sex . |
| 29 | I was still nursing my Freddieland injuries , and the way she was looking at me with her unflinching gaze gave me a queasy feeling I 'd only narrowly avoided providing lunch . |
| 30 | WELL , WHEN I OFFERED SIR WILFRED MY RESIGNATION , THE OLD BUGGER GAVE ME A SECOND-HAND YACHT HE 'D PICKED UP AT AN AUCTION … |