Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And how did you actually , I mean , did you do all this er er er , as it were in an amateur way or did you do through any kind of profe , wi with the help of doctors or |
| 2 | Nor did he wish for any reciprocal act . |
| 3 | All the same , I insisted that we should pay our share of the electricity , heating , et cetera , and made her agree to that . |
| 4 | Ginny smoothed her hands on her dress and got her breathing under some sort of control . |
| 5 | He spread his hands wide in a gesture of incomprehension and invited her to make of this unexpected turn of events what she could . |
| 6 | He waited , out of long experience with dominant characters , until a natural break occurred and used it to ask for some background , starting with how long the Minister had known Miss Morgan . |
| 7 | ‘ We devised some pretty crude mechanisms for extracting cash from the operating companies every quarter — we did n't even bother to classify it as dividend or interest or repayment of loans , we just took the cash away from them and told them to manage with less . |
| 8 | I returned to my men and told them to unload under some fig trees on the steep river bank . |
| 9 | I said that someone in Montefiore 's position should check his facts before sounding off , and advised him to campaign for more resources all round instead of trying to trade one disadvantaged group off against another . |
| 10 | Edgar thanked the Danes for their support and allowed them to live under such laws as they might choose , and it must be significant that Swegen landed in Lincolnshire when he made his bid for the kingship in 1013 , and that in 1066 King Harald of Norway made for York , where he had hopes that the citizens would assist him in his endeavours . |
| 11 | It was this disappearance that really roused my suspicion , and started me searching for some kind of pattern to make sense of these changes . |
| 12 | A mixture of gratitude and pity held her captive through many a long , polite , sad , dull declaration of admiration , and kept her smiling through many an impolite drunken assault on her brassiere straps . |
| 13 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 14 | Maggie looked down and saw it moving at some speed ; dust flung up in a stream behind it and it was waiting as they taxied to a halt . |
| 15 | He was very aware of Jack 's interest in aviation , and offered him support with this . |
| 16 | And did they pick on any individuals ? |
| 17 | And did he know about all this ? |
| 18 | ‘ And did you come to any conclusion ? ’ |
| 19 | She 'd seen the hostility in the woman 's face and had her moved to another ward . |
| 20 | Now , as the thought came into his mind he spoke it aloud , and had he spoken like this to anyone else it would have been taken as an insult , for what he said was , ‘ It 's a pity you have n't had education , Mick . ’ |
| 21 | The Workmen 's Compensation Act 1897 made employers liable for accidents at work and obliged them to insure against such events and to compensate the worker , almost regardless of cause . |
| 22 | They always were rhythmic , percussive , beaty , tinny , rattly — a tease , in fact , they tickled your feet and left you begging for more . |