Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each one of them knew what he or she meant by true religion , and all of them were sure that the church and the government in England were wrong . |
| 2 | Those who trudged dutifully to the polls yesterday to mark their perforated ballot papers with an ‘ X ’ in the appropriate box , or who sat through last night 's results with only black coffee for company , would have witnessed a tableau of restrictive practices and old spanish customs fit to warm the heart of the most backward-looking member of Nalgo . |
| 3 | If you are lucky enough to obtain a Sear 's catalogue , or one offered by any number of American suppliers , you can give your card number and order what is required on the order form usually enclosed . |
| 4 | Either they did not come back or they returned by another route . |
| 5 | Yes they did , or they appeared in that light in the newspapers . |
| 6 | I was last on the County Council between nineteen eighty one and nineteen eighty five , and I was on the Gipsy Working Party at that time , and nothing happened except scandalous public meetings where officers were , were allowed to be crucified by Conservative chairpersons and not a site appeared , public or private . |
| 7 | She swept them out , following them , fearing perhaps that they would add to Harry 's fatigue , and he and I looked at each other across the suddenly empty room in a shared fundamental awareness . |
| 8 | Karen and I looked at each other , half-amused , half-disturbed . |
| 9 | The Lorrimores , followed by everyone still in the dining room , went dashing off into the dome car , but Emil and I looked at each other , and I said , ‘ How do we warn that train ? ’ |
| 10 | Charlie and I looked at each other . |
| 11 | Carradine and I looked at each other . |
| 12 | Susan and I looked at each other , eyebrows going up under our hoods . |
| 13 | Lorenzo and I looked at each other and nothing had changed . |
| 14 | Black eyeliner on my lower lids , and I looked like some kind of She-devil . |
| 15 | I first saw her when I was called to see one of Mrs Ainsworth 's dogs , and I looked in some surprise at the furry black creature sitting before the fire . |
| 16 | ‘ Was n't he washing himself when Tom and I passed by last night just after eight o'clock ? |
| 17 | T. D. I was on the beat round Stanley Hospital and I got to this point at four o'clock on the Saturday morning . |
| 18 | My one ambition had been to be a pro , and I got to ten handicap . |
| 19 | I was one of those ‘ lucky ’ National Servicemen who trained as Air Gunners and I served with 57 Squadron at Waddington ( March 1952 ) and Coningsby ( April 1952 to March 1953 ) . |
| 20 | And I noticed at one point in the discussion , this was queried by H B F. I think they feared that we would n't at that stage we 'd be opening up free for all of the kind which we 've obviously been seeking to avoid thus far . |
| 21 | And I applied for that job , and I got it . |
| 22 | You know , I always feel desperate , and I apologized to that family , but it has to be done ’ ( FN 5/1/87 , p. 2 ) . |
| 23 | I thought about telling him the arrangement Laura and I had for that night , then decided against it . |
| 24 | Well , my understanding is that the individual should have a job description as that 's what they are working too , and I thought at one time that it should be the individual who would sign the job description but apparently not , it should be the manager , who signs it to say yes , I confirm that this is the job I want the person to do . |
| 25 | Harry and I thought at one stage that if we could find a proper home |
| 26 | Our trucks had open sides and Marius , Vermulen and I clung to each other , faces buried in our hoods , as we churned down the slushy autoroutes , the speed of the trucks sending icy , sawing winds through us at seventy kilometres per hour . |
| 27 | I went over there and I stepped into this guy 's shoes who had really a difficult fourth year class . |
| 28 | In the later afternoon , Andrew Gregg , deputy co-ordinator of ‘ UUUC Advice and Relief Centres ’ , and I returned to Central Strike Headquarters and collected a portable typewriter and some other items of equipment useful for continuing the strike should we have to go into hiding . |
| 29 | During our rare separations we wrote letters in her manner , whenever we could find or construct conversations to report ; and I corresponded in this way with our friend , the excellent and long unjustly neglected novelist , Barbara Pym . |
| 30 | Sometimes he hit me , sometimes he just threatened me , and I lived in terrible fear of him . |