Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the groups faced one of two basic choices : either the loan carried much higher APR as the repayment period grew longer ; or it carried much lower APR as the repayment period grew longer . |
| 2 | I had about Friday night I finished work here at twelve and then up again at and I got about two hours sleep then and I started to . |
| 3 | I made one stupid mistake in one of my books , about a car , and I got about 25 letters . |
| 4 | Y we put it in the garden and I got really cold hands and then was just about to put them into hot water when you said do n't cos you 'll get chilblains |
| 5 | Norma got a huge big chip with chicken dip and then we brought Fred back something to eat as well , we were starving , and I got home last night and I was gon na make myself a sandwich but mummy-in-law was in bed so I says och I 'll just go to bed myself . |
| 6 | Last time , a friend and I got extremely drunk waiting to hear Dukakis had lost , and when the final result came through , we must have misheard it ; certainly , we were quite surprised by the announcement that George Best had been elected president of the USA . |
| 7 | And I got hardly any cans back . |
| 8 | The wind and rain beat down on me , and I fell down several times , but finally I arrived at a long , low house , standing rather isolated in the middle of the moor . |
| 9 | I mean I tried , tried to er er done it in my book about my again and I read about two pages and I fell asleep . |
| 10 | Time I and I woke up some friends . ’ |
| 11 | Having now seen the answers , I find that my wife and I had just one word wrong . |
| 12 | To avoid them I should either have had to go several hundred yards through dense undergrowth , or make a wide detour round and above them ; the former would have subjected me to very great danger , and there was no time for the latter , for the sun was near setting and I had still two miles to go . |
| 13 | But I was an old man with bad eyes , and Aunt Branwell and I had very little money . |
| 14 | Poor Julia and I had very unhappy lives . |
| 15 | By the time of the Lancaster House talks , Mrs Thatcher was in power , and I had very few dealings with her , and so I was not invited to participate . |
| 16 | By the time 1972 was out I had found a Vets club in join , the VAC as it was called , and I began to pick up something about the scene — where to find the minor races , who to go to for training advice , the way to use blocks and how to seek out physios for repair purposes — and I took up steady training . |
| 17 | With appointed ‘ judges ’ and a news reporter on the ground at the Flying Field , Dick and I took off one Saturday morning with petrol tank full , and spiralled up into ‘ the great blue yonder ’ . |
| 18 | And I thought well that way it 's done in n it ? |
| 19 | He reminded us of our debt to those whose labour supported our studies and I recalled this many years later when , passing through Harvard , I read the inscription commemorating the foundation of its college in order that future generations might be spared an unlettered clergy . |
| 20 | The river was running fast and I learnt later that bathing could be perilous . |
| 21 | We built a simple little device which could administer a mild shock to a chick held briefly in my hand — tested on my finger , the shock is no more than a brief tingle , and the chicks seemed scarcely to notice it — ; and I checked out Benowitz' finding . |
| 22 | Mice and black-beetles and cook-maids had played Old Harry with some cantatas and a vast great passion according to St Mark , in High Dutch ; but lower down all was well , and I brought away several pieces , 'cello for you , fiddle for me , and some for both together . |
| 23 | ‘ It was too easy to let the mind wander and I spent too much time looking at the leaderboards instead of concentrating on my own game . |
| 24 | And I said well any rate he come up and said where 's the fiver ? |
| 25 | And I went there four weeks . |
| 26 | I was there this morning , and I went back this afternoon . |
| 27 | And I went down one day . |
| 28 | I just bi I went outside , I mean , I was gon na go outside five minutes before and not notice anything , and I went out five minutes later and I heard this water running . |
| 29 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 30 | We came on a , I think it was on a Friday or Saturday morning and I had to go back Sunday night , cos I was on duty on the Monday back in Plymouth , and I did a month in Plymouth , er , a month or five weeks no longer , and I came up each weekend to see them , my wife was left there then . |