Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some loved him , others hated him , but everyone respected what little they ever found out about this strange ‘ refusenik ’ who was part of no group or establishment , yet managed to affect so many people 's lives . |
| 2 | So no-one got it right , pollsters , reporters or bookmakers . |
| 3 | He hated to see a dripping tap , and nothing made him angrier than Blackpool Tower blazing with , what to him was , utterly squandered energy . |
| 4 | Under expert instruction , dad ( of course ) would administer the fatal blow , and mum would ensure everyone got their favourite cuts by overseeing the butchery . |
| 5 | The US Seniors ' Tour may outstrip the USPGA Tour in terms of waistlines and average age , but no-one expected its leading money winner to also claim higher earnings . |
| 6 | According to one obscure belief in ancient Rome , smearing mouse excrement over someone made them impotent . |
| 7 | One morning , someone found his potato-storage pit on the corner of his land ransacked and emptied . |
| 8 | ‘ You believed you were vampires because someone told you that too . ’ |
| 9 | It does n't sound like much , but if someone told you those were your odds of winning the lottery , you 'd buy a ticket , would n't you ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If she was wearing it there 's always the chance that someone recognised its true value , and it was stolen . ’ |
| 11 | Someone paid them good money , a lot of money , to do that — this so-called ‘ friend ’ they mentioned — so if I were you I 'd be trying to work out who he is rather than getting on my soapbox . |
| 12 | It was high time someone took his young sister down a peg . |
| 13 | Someone sent her Vile Bodies , when she had finished it she cried . |
| 14 | ‘ Doc says the best bet , given the mark on her cheek is that someone slapped her one and she fell back . |
| 15 | ‘ I think , ’ answered Karen , ‘ that someone put something radioactive into my bag last night before I left the factory . |
| 16 | I felt ill and someone gave me some DFs and I felt better . |
| 17 | No , I did n't , I got the bus part way , 'cos someone gave me some money for the bus . |
| 18 | Same scale on the X and Y. Erm what would be let's say someone gave you this find an approximation for the gradient erm Y equals X squared minus one . |
| 19 | I agree , its , its like those their lovely little things , do n't think of buying , it 's not very fair cos I mean , Mar , I mean I 'd be over the moon if someone bought me one of those bags . |
| 20 | Someone had something some function of X here they differentiated it and it gave them X squared no what did they differentiate ? |
| 21 | Nothing delighted him more than to feel twenty-five pairs of eyes fixed upon him . |
| 22 | As the armed alliances of Europe , intertwined in a deadly dance and wrapped around with train-timetables , struggled into the nightmare to come , nobody realised what modern war was going to mean , least of all Lord Roberts . |
| 23 | These days , nobody cared what high-grade powder he put up his nose , whom he spent the night with . |
| 24 | ‘ Somebody got him pissed , I expect ; it was n't difficult . ’ |
| 25 | Nobody mentioned anything Italian to Barnes , least of all Parma ham . |
| 26 | And nobody told me that . |
| 27 | Nobody told me that bit . |
| 28 | Nobody told me any of this ! ’ |
| 29 | It 's obviously a hell of a technique to master and somebody told me that , just to make things worse , you grinned when you did it ! |
| 30 | I ca n't get it off my mind , I mean , what would you do if somebody told you that , Marti ? ’ |