Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pers pn] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the Beverley sisters were on and they said they used to wear very daring clothes and the B B C banned them from showing their navels , cos you 're not supposed to show your navel on television and you could n't say the word , oh yeah Lonnie Donegan was on and he said that he was banned from singing this song er in eighty forty was such a little drip and in it he says we beat the bloody British and they would n't let him sing that because he swore so he had to sing we beat the ruddy British |
| 2 | He says he understood the new model was to be portable , and to be used by surrounding hospitals — and says he feels fundraisers have been misled . |
| 3 | He says he joined the Labour Party in 1977 , seven years after he began work with the forerunner to the present local authority . |
| 4 | He claims he paid the top Tory official £40,000 to secure the prestigious Queens Award for Exports which Levitt is now accused of having obtained by deception . |
| 5 | And , as he enters the last week of a career which spans more than 30 years , he knows he made the right choice . |