Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the second group , 69 per cent thought that other factors were more important than qualifications , and in the third , 75 per cent ignored them altogether or considered them meaningless . |
| 2 | My mother glared at me suspiciously and told me not be so ridiculous . |
| 3 | He thanked them all but told them that ‘ his determination was to spend his life and time and talent in his own family , for whose benefit he had now parted with all his worldly estate among them ’ . |
| 4 | Well erm if I 'm crystal ball gazing , I would hope that all the women in this country , whatever their colour and whatever their class , would have access to first-class provision for their young children , so that if they wished to work they could actually work in jobs that paid them enough and gave them job satisfaction . |
| 5 | He motioned them inside and left them . |
| 6 | With help from a tutor I finally put them together and fitted them into the cubic box I was given . |
| 7 | And we had that one back and nailed them together and sold them again . |
| 8 | ‘ Jesus called them together and said , ‘ You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them , and their high officials exercise authority over them . |
| 9 | They took the same tube into work but walked apart on the final stretch to the office in case anyone saw them together and jumped to the right conclusion . |
| 10 | A turning point came the day Charlotte 's cousin saw them together and reported back , ‘ She 's actually quite ordinary — and she wears red shoes ! |
| 11 | The Trunchbull simply grabbed me by one ear and rushed me to The Chokey at the double and threw me inside and locked the door . |
| 12 | When I arrived , she urged me inside and closed the door , and I could see that she was breathless with fear . |
| 13 | Also , I must admit I saw a pair of green suede baby shoes in Gap and I all but swooned : size 0 , cute as Goldie Hawn 's left ear , very nearly her right . |
| 14 | There were moments when I all but spoke the truth . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're gooin' ter tek 'er upstairs an' lay 'er out , ’ she said . |
| 16 | He covered his face with his hands , then took them away and looked down at the earth . |
| 17 | But it was too late ; large tears rolled down her cheeks and , no matter how swiftly she swiped them away and pretended they were n't there , they just kept on coming . |
| 18 | Then she gave up trying to scrape them away and stood there weakly , motionless with horror . |
| 19 | We suspected they were not made of sheepskin at all er and we took some of them away and analyzed them to find out what exactly are they made of . |
| 20 | And they say yes we will , our business teach teacher told us about that you see because it 's been happening a lot , cos Marks and Spencers do n't ask for a receipt you see , it actually happened , they used to take things from upstairs , bring them downstairs and said they bought it and got the money for it . |
| 21 | So , naturally we started to feed them separately and became more careful when giving them titbits . |
| 22 | The prowl-car boys handed me downstairs and gave me the hands-flat-against-the-roof-of-the-car routine while they frisked me . |
| 23 | ‘ You could have had a hundred casual affairs , and I 'd have adjusted to them somehow and tried to make you fall in love with me , but the thought that you 'd loved someone else and still loved him , because it seemed to have gone on over the years , periodically resumed … |
| 24 | He sat back , regarded me coolly and shrugged complacently . |
| 25 | For over a year she had been cutting out coupons from magazines and sending off for make-up samples that she had kept hidden in a small suitcase in the boathouse ; since her grandmother 's death she had brought them indoors and experimented openly , primping all day long , leaving streaks of grease everywhere , on the table cloth , on the bathroom shelves . |
| 26 | Ronni carried them indoors and laid them on the kitchen table , scarcely able to bear the mouth-watering aromas that were escaping from beneath the tin foil . |
| 27 | Norman took me outside and said , ‘ Here is the money we want to give you . ’ |
| 28 | She wiped them surreptitiously and repeated her question : ‘ Surely a woman is better off without a man ? ’ |
| 29 | As they approached , a big rabbit appeared over the edge of the ditch , looked at them quickly and vanished into the bank . |
| 30 | At first I only wore the bins for homework and blackboard but , as the years rolled myopically by , I came to rely on them more and became too lazy to take them off . |