Example sentences of "[vb past] in [adj] [noun] [coord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | does , , he came in one day and I said that we really do n't travel a lot you know |
2 | There was once years and years ago , he came in one night and I gave him these three pieces of paper and er what was it ? |
3 | But I walked in one day and he says , You 'd ge better bugger off home , he says , . |
4 | That er lived in this house and they were the the real grass roots of the old Labour Party , the real socialists , not like the ones that we know today that only pay lip service to it . |
5 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
6 | ( There were times when he got in great positions and you wanted him to hammer the ball , but he 'd end up doing a sort of ‘ clip ’ shot . ) |
7 | We called in Little Chef and we had a meal in there , urgh yuk It were , tasted like shit . |
8 | They started , they started in one place and they just |
9 | Yeah cos I went in that shop and I put on a size ten skirt and it was hanging . |
10 | And then she went in one day and she knew she 'd had a thousand and said can I extend it ? |
11 | Seventeen million people died in this war and we should never forget . |
12 | Occasionally the chemistry within the troupe resulted in exceptional work and it would become his crack troupe . |
13 | The membership subscription of the B.C.R.S. resulted in considerable discussion and it was finally decided that the matter be deferred to a future meeting to decide . |
14 | Staying first of all with the Maggses — ‘ the first parents I had in four years and I have good reason for not putting parents in inverted commas ’ — in a small country town , he learned the respectable , middle-class way to do things : |
15 | He reckoned that it was better for the new Iranian prime minister , Shapour Bakhtiar , that the Shah stayed in Muslim country and he thought that Hasans influence would help " keep Khomeini under control " |