Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the second group , 69 per cent thought that other factors were more important than qualifications , and in the third , 75 per cent ignored them altogether or considered them meaningless . |
| 2 | And I mean I ca n't thank the people enough that sent them all . |
| 3 | So that made me unhappy , and in turn made Lesley unhappy , so it was n't a very good situation . |
| 4 | ‘ She knew the lads and said they were very nice so that made it easier to audition for them . ’ |
| 5 | She says : So that made it easier for you to carry on then . |
| 6 | Then of course the there were area combat missions , area missions but these had nothing to do er with the work training I think that and I did and in developing of our crews so that we were able to survive and of course er our mission that we thought that would probably be the same as was on the fourteenth when we went to Schweinfurt and we made it back and not only that but we got back to England , we 'd manage on about the third pass to get in to this one field and there was another plane trying to get in and they went up and bailed out and after we were eating our supper here they brought the men in the fields er where they , on the bombers ' field where they had landed the never got in so they went up and set the plane on automatic pilot and bailed out because they could n't land the plane but we managed to take them out and I think there was the extra good flying training and I did together that made us able to survive the savage attacks that we had , he had it on the Munster mission , I had it on the Schweinfurt mission . |
| 7 | He was pleasant enough and told her all she needed to know . |
| 8 | ‘ Everybody came in and told her all their stories . |
| 9 | But er somebody was in and left it all filthy and mouldy and what for ! |
| 10 | Somebody gave him a brush and paints one time and he started in and got it better than any of them , oh my word he did . |
| 11 | I went in and got it all . |
| 12 | The FO chap knew all about it , of course , and any time things looked like coming off the boil he dived in and assured us this could be the biggest coup since the Zimmerman telegram . |
| 13 | ‘ Who 'd get the blame , I ask you , if some young big-head like him got larking about in that lot , and the whole thing caved in and buried him alive ? |
| 14 | It was , therefore , extremely relevant to him that Wagner had a less complicated view of the age they lived in and found it possible to regard the rise of the new Reich as the outward expression of , precisely , Germanic health and strength . |
| 15 | The farmer 's wife invited us in and gave us cheesy , potato turnovers — it would not be polite to refuse . |
| 16 | Then when it was realized that things had taken a turn for the worse and somebody was going to get killed the vicar stepped in and bought them all ice-creams . |
| 17 | He told us to sit down and served us vinegar-tasting wine . |
| 18 | Would he really let rhinoceroses out of cages so they charged people in the suburbs and trampled them down and ate them alive ? |
| 19 | The nurse came down and gave me some medicine which totally knocked me out . |
| 20 | they announce in the room we are from video such and such , you know and just looked at me , this black man explained everything to everybody else and then the guy went over and sat down and explained it all again just blind |
| 21 | I wrote to the Earl personally and told him that Brownie Guides are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks , but received a reply saying that my letter had been passed on to the agent , Mr. Bishop , who handled all such matters . |
| 22 | While these southern Americans believed their region unified by its homogeneity , what actually drew it together and made it conscious to itself was its deep and ( according to white Southern belief ) ineradicable , division — into white and black . |
| 23 | While she ate she read , another thing her mother would have disapproved of , but her ‘ book ’ was the parish magazine and somehow that made it better . |
| 24 | Somehow that made it worse , not knowing . |
| 25 | Sure enough she offered straight away and gave me some lipstick as well . |
| 26 | A representative sample of the adult British population was asked : ‘ If the company you work for had to move its premises , do you think you would or would not move with it and find a new home if it moved more than 50 miles away and gave you financial help to move ? ’ |
| 27 | The force of the blow caught him squarely and sent him sprawling , gasping for breath , temporarily blinded , rolling in the dust . |
| 28 | I could never of got them and got her hair cut cos she did do it slowly and got it level |
| 29 | Miss Harker recoiled from the small spidery apparition , but recovered quickly and granted him one of her smiles . |
| 30 | She was teasing , but I answered , ‘ I 'd guess Mercer assured the waiter he would n't be fired and took him aside and gave him twenty dollars . ’ |