Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 2 | I did and I was absolutely amazed at how much stuff I sold and the kind of things people bought . |
| 3 | I checked and the day seemed to be free , ’ she quavered . |
| 4 | I phoned and the man that I needed to speak to was not there , he 'd been seconded to the Himalayas or something , he was only coming back erm , in the middle of January , I was in , erm , November or whatever it was , I was giving a few days ' grace , and then I was going to call . |
| 5 | I did the er there was a an ambulance came down the road in front of a bus you see , and a chap which was on the cor , side the road and he he went like this so I stopped and the ambulance came round and turned into this building site and I and while we were sitting there bang ! |
| 6 | It just depends where we 're going cos I do n't know what we 're doing yet So I 'd and the woman 's coming round tonight so I 'll just , sort of , say to her if I can keep it over the weekend I can do a lot more so otherwise I 'll feel a bit bad |
| 7 | ‘ I always felt the pull between loyalty to ICI and a working life I enjoyed and the thought that someone else was looking after my children ’ . |
| 8 | ’ I snarled but the landlord , the two thugs close to his shoulder , screamed his innocence . |
| 9 | He would watch the notices in the papers , and when someone died and the widow was left alone , he would go there and think up some sort of lie — he lied always , as a boy , even when there was no need , and he looked so clean and innocent that if you did not know him you would believe him , every time . |
| 10 | I 've lost my job when money 's been tight , regardless of the good work I did and the commitment I showed . |
| 11 | That bowl on the mantelpiece was what I won and a voucher for Stoner 's — the undertaker 's on Lavender Hill that also sells furniture . |
| 12 | I said or a teddy that does something . |
| 13 | The Aldershot method the structure of what I said and the way the delivery had come across . |
| 14 | And he came in and I said and the mirror on the dressing table is n't done . |
| 15 | I said well that 's what is , I said if you look at it the depreciation is so heavy compared with the income , and I said and the insurance as well but I said hopefully cos we have n't had any of er any claims at all this year you know , I said I know but all of the insurances of gone up , but I said I 'm hoping that we can sort of get the insurance down if possible so he said , yeah fair enough then . |
| 16 | Kind of but a cross between the ringlets you do and the ringlets that I had and the type of hair I 've got . |
| 17 | The man I fashioned and the god I fashioned |
| 18 | After that I married and the war broke out . |
| 19 | I ran and an absence bounded beside me . |
| 20 | what I wrote or the example that I worked out or even the way you did it yourself here |
| 21 | I asked myself if I minded and the answer was that I did n't . " |
| 22 | Well we had er , we took out all the gear for that , so I knew a lot , being a crane driver I 'd know what gear I wanted but a lot of these stevedores what are on there now , they were lorry drivers and they ai n't got a clue what they do , so there part of my job meant I 'd go round and give advice . |
| 23 | Nobody dissented and the company stood to recite the opening chapter of the Koran under the leadership of the al-Sharifi . |
| 24 | Even if the cage owner was a small , weaker cat and the introduced male was large and powerful , it was still the owner which mounted and the visitor which crouched in the female fashion . |
| 25 | They waited a long time and nobody appeared but the Brigadier did n't call again . |
| 26 | The other woman , as if torn between a friend whose authority she respected and a husband whom she loved , explained with melancholy , ‘ What can I do , that 's how he is ! |
| 27 | She was always careful never to write anything which might betray where she lived and the identity of those whom she wrote about , while stressing that the column was based upon her experiences and verifiable fact . |
| 28 | She agreed and the couple have now settled in Dundee . |
| 29 | She relented and the god said that if she sacrificed a chicken at the Bāhan shrine on top of the hill , that god would exorcize her evil . |
| 30 | She rose and the apron made a tissue-paper sound , ‘ And we have to bear in mind , Miss Thorne , that for many people a hospital of this kind is not the answer . |