Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lutyens 's verdict was law , and nothing escaped his personal praise or criticism . |
| 2 | Under his guidance , Parliament House was transformed from a nineteenth-century warren into a modern court-house and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to explore , and share with others , its secrets and treasures . |
| 3 | He was no respecter of persons or institutions or ideas just because they were vested with a brief authority , and nothing gave him more pleasure than to prick the bubble of pretension . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , and I got my other hearing-aid , and some notes — ’ |
| 5 | Yeah , and he bought bought bits and that , and I got my little book , you know , my pictures in have n't I ? |
| 6 | At the end of summer there were still patches of old snow on the sheltered slopes of the Cirque des Pessons , and I wrote my first poem about Andorra : |
| 7 | I was having all that done one day and I heard one little girl say to another , ‘ Why do they keep doing her make-up ? ’ |
| 8 | He spoke to her in very precise Greek , and I heard my own name and the name of the school . |
| 9 | and I swapped him this elephant |
| 10 | Well I know where my oh is that yours ? it 's in my overall pockets and I , I tell you what 's in the , in the thing with it , me petrol one and I had me premium punch put on there look . |
| 11 | I was reading and no doubt seeing myself as Chopin , and I had my new book on birds beside me . |
| 12 | I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink . |
| 13 | When I reached the pit bottom , there was approximately three feet of water at the pit bottom and I had my first experience of water in the mines . |
| 14 | When we were seated facing each other again she gave me a ball of pink wool and a pair of knitting needles and I had my first lesson in how to knit properly without dropping stitches . |
| 15 | Now we did not have to sit on the edge of the bed — a much wider bed — because there were two chairs , and I had my own shower and facilities for making coffee and snacks . |
| 16 | You know , this is how it was first and I only come across that but , how it went , they felt I was genuine I suppose and they could trust me and they left it as it was and I had me own building . |
| 17 | He ducked into one of the caves and I followed his bent back and the torchlight in the chill and damp . |
| 18 | I saw clouds passing swiftly by and I sensed my own movement in another time and space . |
| 19 | ‘ At Bulawayo we had 45,000 crowds for club games and I made my international debut at 14 , so I was n't that ‘ wowed ’ to arrive in England . ’ |
| 20 | She went into the bathroom and I made my own supper by slicing some of the foul cheese and shoving it between two slices of greased plastic bread . |
| 21 | When we made love that day in your room , and I experienced my own frailty , it shook me . |
| 22 | and I brought it this way round the normal way that we go |
| 23 | Hamilton and I spent our last night in Rome at a very respectable hotel on the Via Garibaldi , near the high walls of the prison . |
| 24 | It 's the new marrow and ginger , Dorothy and I chose it this afternoon . |
| 25 | And I smoked my last cigarette years ago right here in Sheffield , England . ’ |
| 26 | The old order seemed fine to me , and I left it that way . |
| 27 | Women wept as Barry Ryan , in a moving tribute to his twin , said : ‘ You were at my first breath and I felt your last breath , we should smile at such perfect symmetry . ’ |
| 28 | His face shrank into lines of hostility and I felt my right knee twitching with anger inside my trouser-leg . |
| 29 | Anyway , he come out and I told him all rigmarole ! |
| 30 | ‘ But Mother went scarlet when the boss 's wife told me what a nice suit I was wearing , and I told her that Mother had spent nearly all night making it . ’ |