Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course everyone knew all about it , just as they knew that the Mackays , poor souls , had done everything they could for the boy ever since they took him in for adoption . ’ |
| 2 | In my days as a Justice 's Clerk I saw enough corpses to know that death can grossly disfigure even the comeliest of faces . ’ |
| 3 | My erm , when I was little , I used to have this reoccuring dream , and it was really , really scary , and I just , I used to get really scared , I did n't want to go to sleep , in case I had this reoccuring dream , and what it was , was erm , I do n't know , I , I think I did n't like swimming when I was little , so that might , what sparked it off , and I could n't swim for ages |
| 4 | Since then there have been other men in her life but tonight , the plans I laid all those years ago reach fruition as I proudly introduce my partner for the evening . |
| 5 | It was my responsibility I brought that child into the world , and there was no way I was going to thrust her off onto other people . |
| 6 | In some cases I opened that menu and selected exit . |
| 7 | They asked me to help dress the models who wandered around showing clothes to the ladies having afternoon tea in the restaurant , and after a bit I did some modelling myself . |
| 8 | For several hours I accepted this absurdity . |
| 9 | Within two hours I had all the information I needed to know . |
| 10 | For half an hour I thought that was the end of our career . |
| 11 | Oh shit I thought that was a two . |
| 12 | Like the woman 's no good Of course I told some things about Wendy . |
| 13 | ‘ Of course I got that from a chap in Intelligence , ’ Woodruffe said . |
| 14 | Of course I had this spell er er do n't forget I was five years as a prisoner of war , and a lot of interest because I was a union member pra b previous to that you see ? |
| 15 | By a coincidence I met this man on the summit of Sergeant Man in the Lake District two months later . |
| 16 | During the late afternoon I received another call summoning a further Cabinet meeting at 7.30 p.m . |
| 17 | One afternoon I completed another unsuccessful attempt at a cannon : I had no sooner moved away than the pipe crashed down exactly where I had been standing . |
| 18 | For the most part I enjoyed these interpretations . |
| 19 | And for five minutes I quizzed this wretched bird without getting a single chirp out of it . |
| 20 | Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest . |
| 21 | For maybe 30 , 35 minutes I tried that and then I just felt it slowing . |
| 22 | With memory widely advertised at about £30 per Mb I thought this would be the perfect Christmas present to myself . |
| 23 | Like a twat I decided that attack was the best way of preserving my job , and so I demanded that the board give me complete control over team selection , tactics , welfare etc. , with no boardroom interference whatsoever . |
| 24 | In an earlier article for Link I said that is a fun place to work . |
| 25 | This tendency to catch and pull happens most often when approaching the workpiece , but with experience I found this can be avoided easily by working against the rotation . |
| 26 | As an intermediate skier I found some of the information ( eg buying skis and the extensive section on snowboarding ) irrelevant as I will not be doing this for some time . |
| 27 | ‘ When I got back to my apartment I ate some ham and beans , and opened a bottle of rather rust-coloured claret . |
| 28 | Times I heard that ! |
| 29 | Times I got that in . |
| 30 | From the batch of over seventy birds I ringed that day , only one other came to light . |