Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time . |
| 2 | and I had it on right and he came in right , and I was going , he was going , a long conversation all about little Harmony and everything and really going onto it , and I went to play it back and it had n't recorded anything . |
| 3 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
| 4 | Now , I do n't , the story I quoted was I , I interviewed Lord Marshall on the local radio thing many years ago , and I asked him about nuclear fusion . |
| 5 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 6 | My sister and I put him to good use . |
| 7 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |
| 8 | So one day , I got a newspaper , I rolled it up and I walloped her like mad . |
| 9 | I did my best to shepherd the animal out of the room but he did n't seem to know the meaning of obedience and I chased him in vain . |
| 10 | You wanted a man , and you wanted him for good — because after all , you were getting on then , were n't you ? |
| 11 | This idea inspired knights from France to flock to the assistance of the struggling Christian kingdoms in northern Spain ; but there was clearly a nice distinction between the attitude of men north of the Pyrenees , who regarded the Muslim as the wicked infidel , as cattle for the slaughter , and the Christians who had lived among them in Spain and who regarded them as misguided fellow-humans . |
| 12 | She had a little flat in the Falls , a house she shared with girlfriends , her family home being in a village outside Derry , and she told him in blunt terms that she had n't seen enough of him at it for too damn long , at it or anywhere else . |
| 13 | Mrs Browning handed her Ellen 's missive as though it were hardly fit to handle and she took it with equal reluctance . |
| 14 | I held out a hand , and she pinched it with tiny , black-gloved fingers . |
| 15 | And she scolded him for frightening children Adam , six , Louise , four , and two-year-old Carl . |
| 16 | Out of the corner of her mouth — and she did it with great flair — Sorrel said : |
| 17 | It had hardened slightly and she moistened it with icy water , kneading it until it shed a film of white liquid . |
| 18 | well he bought the land and we saw him at different times build his bungalow it 's a lovely bungalow now int it ? |
| 19 | And they were tiny and we tied them in wee bunches and it was Miss who was the teacher then and she made a cross and put |
| 20 | And they told it without on-screen questioning , though the programme is skilfully structured to give it a coherence it might have lacked . |
| 21 | and by he and his wife were headmaster in the village village of and their master , headmaster used to give Wallace two lessons and they had it in different houses , you know |
| 22 | Julia 's questions about the line the defence lawyers were taking were as acute as anything she had ever asked David , and they filled him with relieved delight . |
| 23 | But what is really relevant is to state that against Ireland they played absolutely the right sort of game and they played it with utter conviction and quite brilliant execution . |
| 24 | And they did it for 20-year-old centre-half Darren Salton , who is still in a coma and on a life support machine after Thursday 's road crash in which Paul Telfer was also injured . |
| 25 | And then his mouth fell to hers and he consumed her with hungry possession . |
| 26 | His membership of the Conservative party was to prove of short duration and he left it for good just before the government of 1931 was formed . |
| 27 | The Buller of Buchan had more appeal , and he summarised it with glittering accuracy : ‘ It has the appearance of a vast well bordered with a wall . ’ |
| 28 | Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth . |
| 29 | He knew that these societies of Gaul and Spain had their own rules and virtues , and he described them with obvious sympathy . |
| 30 | I played his game and he rewarded me with encouraging remarks about my cancer-free future . |