Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room was silent save for the angry swishing sound she made each time she turned the magazine 's pages . |
| 2 | Once they made that decision it was really all over . |
| 3 | Of course after he made that statement he did n't realize that the London Region were gon na put a thousand pound in the bucket ! |
| 4 | As you face the station , he lived that side you see and er there , the room where they used to entertain their friends was just the other side of the wall the booking office , you see , and er he was such a kind man , his name was Mr |
| 5 | Her hair looked very red in the bright light from the kitchen , and her ear-rings twinkled each time she moved her head . |
| 6 | A grid of reference wires in front of the rotating map presented the hours , and as the solar image passed each wire it indicated the time as well as any sundial could . |
| 7 | We got roast beef we got the most important |
| 8 | The swell surged deep inside her , the fire and the passion and the blaze of glory , and as their swollen mouths sought each other they were bonded forever in the secret lair of their love . |
| 9 | Yeah well we got that lasagne I was going to do that for you today but |
| 10 | she said it 's hard enough for people with jobs to exist today without all this and she 's gone back to college on the flexi idea , erm , brush up her typing because she said , now whether she 's thinking of future years , she said when she left here that time , although she got that job she said it was n't easy , she said because I had no bits of paper as such , although when I did the test I passed it , she said it was n't simple , so she 's doing |
| 11 | Next time I passed that way I kept a look-out , and sure enough , there it was , sleeping in the same ‘ couch ’ on the skerry . |
| 12 | When you met this man you say you loved , surely you could have told me . " |
| 13 | The first time I met this creature she was an unlettered half-caste peasant who smelt of stale sweat and dead chickens . |
| 14 | She met another man she knew and was dancing with him when Antonio discovered her , whereupon he was heard by onlookers to curse the moon for trusting in his fiancée 's purity . |
| 15 | Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ? |
| 16 | When Dr Denis Calandra , a US based drama teacher , led this song he persuaded every one to sing their part in a different style which the rest would follow . |
| 17 | The first few occasions I experienced this enigma I put it down simply to the fact that I was fishing too far out and the bream were brushing against the line and giving me ‘ line ’ bites . |
| 18 | On the other side of the road lived another Brit I 'd met in France . |
| 19 | Why it got this name I 've no idea , as the so called ‘ bees ’ , looking rather like the cereal Sugar Puffs , were reputed to be an Australian fungus with yeast-like properties . |
| 20 | Now , Michael Bolton was from my town , Newhaven , and this guy I knew just knew him , and he says , ‘ Michael , I got this kid I 'm thinking of managing ; tell me what you think of him . ’ |
| 21 | He bought the car off my boy i i it was worth five thousand odd , it was worth and he , he used to cart me about , see just you know , Steve did , before he , we got this money he used to go up to what is that ? |
| 22 | And I mean if she got this job she 'd have to pay the full amount , if she 's on Income Support you do n't do you ? |
| 23 | perhaps Hertfordshire County Council average they actually got some information I 'm sa , I 'm sorry to say Mr 's got no have to state the position so far , not officer . |
| 24 | In local elections on July 26 the Socialist Party of Albania — SPA ( until June 1991 the communist Party of Labour of Albania — PLA ) recovered some ground it had lost in the March legislative elections , but the Democratic Party ( DP ) nevertheless retained control of the cities of Tirana , Elbasan , Korce , Shkoder and Dürres . |
| 25 | Remember all your happy times , be creative and do all those things you promised each other you would do together . |
| 26 | If he ever found this girl he would thank her for choosing to live in that quarter of the city . |
| 27 | He came back and used another word I knew of course but had never heard my father , or any adult , say before . |
| 28 | Financial management was now assuming greater importance in the industry and whilst only 8% mentioned this subject it would be surprising if many more did not find difficulty with it . |
| 29 | In the corridor she had passed compartments full of young men playing cards , who looked up and appraised her face and figure with impersonal interest , and when she found another seat it was in a compartment with three other women travelling up to London on their own , all with suitcases and trim suits and carefully made-up faces . |
| 30 | In fact when God created this world he is described as working ( Gen. 2:13 ) , and frequently the world is said to be the work of his hands . |