Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb past] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it was a cro , I tell you what , we were playing something tonight , I think it was the last thing before you stopped , and I kept thinking any minute now it 's gon na be Somewhere Over the Rainbow |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been to that riding-stable — Angela 's sister Jennifer and I went hacking one day when I stayed the weekend there . |
| 3 | But erm I felt as though , I felt exactly the same , I felt I 'd just been asleep I just had my eyes shut and I felt opening one eye to have a look out and see what people were doing . |
| 4 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 5 | Word had got about as to why she had disappeared on compassionate leave and she began receiving many invitations for such recreational activities as were available : film shows , dances or simply a get-together in the local inn . |
| 6 | Well I used to share a , share this flat with my mate and erm you know , she got a bit out of hand , she kept bringing all these people home and she kept having these parties and it was really difficult for me to study cos I used to go well I still try to go to college , but erm you know , it was really hard for me to study and made my life really , really difficult ! |
| 7 | Er the r the steering committee consisted of eight members , one form each constituency , and we started meeting last November . |
| 8 | Then one night towards the end of January we had had too much Dexedrine and San Miguel , and we started exchanging acrimonious words . |
| 9 | Craddock had a chronically infected nasal antrum , and Fleming and he tried instilling some mould filtrate into it , with no obvious benefit . |
| 10 | When St John left , it was beginning to snow , and it continued snowing all night and all the next day . |
| 11 | Of the film 's religious imagery , he says : ‘ We talked about the Fifty-First psalm ( which is sung by one of the kitchen boys ) ; it does n't give you many clues , but I was reading it again this morning and it started making more sense . |
| 12 | I know it 's something a Samaritan would consider unprofessional , but I enjoyed getting verbal queerbashers to hang up on me because they could n't handle what I was telling them . |
| 13 | It sounded okay but we kept getting these fumes . |
| 14 | We did not exactly quarrel , but we started unloading pent-up resentments and frustrations . |
| 15 | He should have finished at university long ago , but he kept taking extra courses , changing subjects and things . |
| 16 | Not that I regretted taking on the responsibilities , but it meant shelving any dreams I 'd had . ’ |