Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Potential side effects were noted by 47 ( 2.2% ) patients , some of whom reported several symptoms concurrently . |
| 2 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 3 | I knew the children were not usually encouraged to guess so I asked one boy directly . |
| 4 | ‘ But there is one thing that does very much interest me , as it happens … and that 's your answer to my question … the one I asked five minutes ago and to which you have so far avoided giving an answer … ’ |
| 5 | I made one stipulation only to the Foreign Secretary , Sir Alec Douglas-Home , which was that my driver should not be the same amiable young man who had led me such a dance around Johannesburg . |
| 6 | When I made that bed yesterday it was sitting in there . |
| 7 | I did make the point that Mr Maxwell 's company wants co-operation on the eastern edge of the City , vis-á-vis their football stadium , and we ought to have some co-operation on the western edge of the City where all these houses are boarded up and empty , bought at double the market value , and I made that point publicly . |
| 8 | But they should know that anyway , or I made that point yesterday , so er th the point they quoted was that erm erm rang up the team and got told no you 've got ta put it on a fax , find it hard to believe that that was if that was the manager on the phone but it 's just important that the people on the team know who the senior managers are . |
| 9 | The vow I made four years ago that someday I would go on the Boards . |
| 10 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
| 11 | ‘ When first I made this World right fair , |
| 12 | So I think I made this point before that the people who are right at the top of politics are the ones who are very good at flattery , duplicity , manipulation and so on and these , are these really the qualities we want in our government ? |
| 13 | I smelled several rats immediately . ’ |
| 14 | I realised many years ago that I was not a studio painter . |
| 15 | The chair with the wobbly leg , the dented saucepans , the knives with loose handles , all were gathered up and restored if possible , mainly by Nigel , who , when I produced new casualties almost weekly as the season wore on , would sigh and say patiently , ‘ Put it on my bench , darling . ’ |
| 16 | Some of my friendships from then I have retained and someone I met twenty years ago I still live with . |
| 17 | It was n't long before I got caught shoplifting again so I was back on remand at Low Newton — I think I must have been on remand there about eight times . |
| 18 | I got that advert today . |
| 19 | But to qualify for that you 've had , you 've actually got to be a councillor for six years , so I got half way there , |
| 20 | ‘ I got some rights here , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Erm I 've ticked coat cos I got some things together with it |
| 22 | I know , I went , I got some whelks once and that was in Bay , they were lovely whelks and I put 'em in a bucket and er did n't think and now I used to put some flour in with 'em . |
| 23 | I got some coleslaw so |
| 24 | I got those shoes too . |
| 25 | Remember what I did there I got three themes and for each one I got three subthemes so that what you put over to them to the audience are those three themes . |
| 26 | You say ‘ I experienced that passage quite differently . ’ |
| 27 | I tried both stations again in the afternoon ; guess what ? |
| 28 | I tried some Palfium once or twice an ’ some morphine , that was it really . |
| 29 | As Windows sorts out the ( hardware ) men from the boys , there 's a large section of the book dedicated to exploiting your disc drives , keyboards , mice and pointing devices , modems , networks , printers and video boards and monitors and I found that section particularly impressive . |
| 30 | I found Swiss television really stupid , did you ? |