Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His restlessness permeated the entire house , and she felt guilty , certain that her presence was tying him to Gullholm , that if it were n't for her he would go home , or visit one or other of his sisters or his mother , all of whom made regular telephone calls . |
| 2 | About 70 per cent of new entrants were over twenty-one , half of whom lacked two A levels , and fewer than a quarter were school-leavers with these qualifications or their equivalent . |
| 3 | I asked professional John Burns what the hazards were at Silloth . |
| 4 | In order to discover whether voice setting and other factors might give hearers clues to a speaker 's ethnicity , I asked 43 East London children aged about 14 to listen to 12 short stretches of speech on tape and fill in a questionnaire . |
| 5 | I avoided M.O.D saturday evening ( WHY have the cameras for our worst home result since about 1980 ? ? ? ? ) , and only caught the last 3 goals on the Sky roundup on sunday . |
| 6 | But they were only relatively cheap because at the time I made that change musician union . |
| 7 | During the first few months of this year I made extensive fuel consumption checks and my overall mpg is 22.73 . |
| 8 | I made many water colour drawings and my Masters and fellow students were interesting . |
| 9 | Facing page : I made this bow shape from a length of velvet ribbon before fixing it to the wall and the back of the oval frame . |
| 10 | I made some deposit money back on as many as I could carry . |
| 11 | I announced last week assistance to Russia in the safe reduction of its surplus nuclear warheads , and we are considering with other interested countries how best to help Russia use the skills of its scientists for peaceful purposes . |
| 12 | IT was in July that I announced Leeds-born superchef Marco-Pierre White was to marry his second wife , beautiful 19-year-old London model Lisa Butcher , after a whirlwind courtship . |
| 13 | I produced some option plans and they took to it like a duck takes to water . ’ |
| 14 | I met other bird watchers and we swopped sightings . |
| 15 | That was until I met this fellow Johnson and we went to Kyrle Hall . |
| 16 | I sought this Adjournment debate in the hope thatMrs . |
| 17 | Reluctantly I agreed that goalie John Slack should have a ten-man defence in front of him . |
| 18 | Actually , I got sixteen pound commission so far , and I got some more people |
| 19 | I got one christmas present . |
| 20 | I got two toilet papers on . |
| 21 | And I got two polo necks one with slight ribs in . |
| 22 | I needed some change so I got two sausage rolls , I 'm gon na wire them up on microwave in a bit right ? |
| 23 | So far as he was concerned , I could become a Muslim or a Jew , provided I got good School Certificates . |
| 24 | I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer . |
| 25 | Well the paper must be out of date because I think I got that stamp months ago in fact you bought it back from Switzerland . |
| 26 | Yeah , but you see that 's why when Tracy come to me saying she wanted to , to exchange her council house I was annoyed because I said no , I got that council house for Tracy it 's in her name |
| 27 | That 's how I got that corduroy suit . |
| 28 | When I got that letter June and , were it Tuesday ? |
| 29 | All because I got a , I got a job , you know , I got that security job and everything |
| 30 | I got fifty Valentine cards last year . |