Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because nobody ever said life was meant to be easy anyway … |
| 2 | Early on , someone said to me that nobody really took AIDS seriously until someone they knew died through it and when the first ex-volunteer died , many of us felt the shock waves . |
| 3 | But nobody then dared question the magical properties of the first five years when Oedipal fantasies were supposed to be raging in the unconscious . |
| 4 | I said , said smoke , I said smog , somebody else said carbon monoxide . |
| 5 | A shopkeeper had a dispute with a customer , a woman who had been waiting for a bus had popped in to mention parking on the footpath at weekends , the school had organised some Maypole dancing and wondered if part of the car park could be cordoned off , somebody else wanted vehicle watch forms . |
| 6 | She had as many as six at one time , usually whippets and pekinese , and one even gave birth to a litter in the bedroom . |
| 7 | May 's comment on oxidized wares seems to us today to be quite astonishing : ‘ common flower pot red , or tile-red wares were as offensive for domestic purpose to the Romans , as to ourselves and should generally speaking , be regarded as ‘ wasters ’ — overbaked and distorted specimens which accumulate in heaps besides kilns as one sometimes made use of in their own locality ’ . |
| 8 | No one then had time to utter what he dreaded ; but afterwards , though those about the king held their peace doggedly , and spoke only of phenomenally bad weather against which no man could guard , in the ranks men were saying to one another that this was no natural storm , that there had never been known so strange and violent a tempest , that it was sent out of malice against them , either by Owen himself , or by those stiff-necked Franciscans of Llanfaes whose house the king had burned , and who were allies of Owen and the devil to the last man . |
| 9 | Dan Pohl , Larry Mize and even Ben Crenshaw all made hopeless hashes of the last hole , Eamonn Darcy holed the putt of his life , Ballesteros was obsessively snuffing out Strange and shortly after that something nice took place in the woodshed . |
| 10 | It always used to be the case that one never did chemistry until the secondary school level . |
| 11 | Agate conceded that one occasionally saw cabinet ministers at the movies , but it was obvious to him that this particular audience had never heard the Mendelssohn , whilst his friend was prompted to comment that it was ‘ the first time they 've ever heard the fiddle ’ . |
| 12 | No-one really had time to celebrate that night . |
| 13 | ‘ Nothing amiss took place . ’ |
| 14 | I think , I think the other thing is as well though is that when you , I mean you 've been sitting pensions cos I mean I had the P H I which I thought it was easier to actually describe erm but erm it 's easy for us to actually sit back and , and go back on everything that everyth er everybody else did wrong is n't it , so |
| 15 | When nothing else happened disappointment diluted her excitement . |
| 16 | Twelve months ago , when he arrived at the Courtyard Marriott on the night of his triumph , following the small dinner the club always gives the new champion , he was happy with a can or two of beer while everyone else drank champagne . |