Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So no-one got it right , pollsters , reporters or bookmakers . |
| 2 | He hated to see a dripping tap , and nothing made him angrier than Blackpool Tower blazing with , what to him was , utterly squandered energy . |
| 3 | According to one obscure belief in ancient Rome , smearing mouse excrement over someone made them impotent . |
| 4 | ‘ You believed you were vampires because someone told you that too . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Doc says the best bet , given the mark on her cheek is that someone slapped her one and she fell back . |
| 8 | I felt ill and someone gave me some DFs and I felt better . |
| 9 | No , I did n't , I got the bus part way , 'cos someone gave me some money for the bus . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Nothing delighted him more than to feel twenty-five pairs of eyes fixed upon him . |
| 13 | ‘ Somebody got him pissed , I expect ; it was n't difficult . ’ |
| 14 | And nobody told me that . |
| 15 | Nobody told me that bit . |
| 16 | Nobody told me any of this ! ’ |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | I ca n't get it off my mind , I mean , what would you do if somebody told you that , Marti ? ’ |
| 19 | If somebody told you some nigger boxer from Loovul , Kentucky would become better known than Jesus Christ , you 'd tell ‘ em , ‘ You crazy . ’ |
| 20 | Nobody paid her any attention at all . |
| 21 | ‘ Are you quite sure , ’ he said , ‘ that nobody telephoned me last night ? ’ |
| 22 | Nobody called her that any more . |
| 23 | They held out longest of all against the machines , but in the end nobody needed him any more . |
| 24 | Somebody offered him five million , the owner of it , and he turned it down and got ten million . |
| 25 | Ah well , her parents were old now , and retired , and nobody thought them funny any more : indeed , it was only the intensely conventional world of a Yorkshire boarding-school that had made them seem so eccentric in the first place . |
| 26 | Nobody thought it odd that Mother Francis often went up the path past the blackberries to read her Office up by the cottage . |
| 27 | One morning , after heavy rain , the field by the hospital was full of giant yellow frogs ; no-one paid them any attention . |
| 28 | Gwynn Jones received many other honours but none gave him greater pleasure than the publication of a selection of his poems , Detholiad o Ganiadau , by the Gregynog Press in 1926 , and the de luxe edition , issued in 1932–7 by Hughes & Son , Wrexham , of six volumes of selected poems and essays . |
| 29 | Nothing surprised him any more . |
| 30 | you see it taken all the straw and its chewed all me clematis and everything got it all inside his little nest |