Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [vb past] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is none of that apparently aimless wandering in short stretches , punctuated by frequent bends , going halfway round the compass to reach the next hamlet or village , which characterises the byroads in country that has never been in open field or left it several centuries ago . |
| 2 | They recorded the usual four songs and gave them both English and Ukrainian names . |
| 3 | He blotted the card and slid them both under the counter . |
| 4 | Corbett dug into his purse and handed her some coins . |
| 5 | She got a cardigan and walked him all the way out the lane . |
| 6 | Seeing the first signs of salt water he was landed on by lots of flies which got into his eyes and irritated him more than the dust . |
| 7 | A man called Rodrigo Paestra has discovered his nineteen-year-old wife with a lover and shot them both . |
| 8 | The Master dined there last term and told us all about it . |
| 9 | I picked up the chant and repeated it many times . |
| 10 | So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up . |
| 11 | At one time , the Club went as far as refusing to allow juveniles a reduced entrance price for the London Road terrace but allowed them half price for other areas . |
| 12 | So I brought it to Gary Brawer , the San Francisco luthier who does a lot of my setup work and he filled it up — took out the springs and the bar and filled it all up with ash and we put in a regular DiMarzio stop tailpiece , with through-the-body strings . |
| 13 | We went out into New York City and staggered here and there through the Village and drooled it all out in bar after bar . |
| 14 | Still , at least it 's had a happy ending and brought you both together to make up your differences , and hopefully make you both think twice before starting another tiff in the future . |
| 15 | That night a bird hurled itself against the window pane and woke them both up . |
| 16 | At the height of the criticism , Law met constituency chairmen and agents at the Queen 's Hall and told them that |
| 17 | I said , I said we 've been doing boundaries for the trial park today and they ran out of passes and gave us these and said they 'd be alright . |
| 18 | Gradually he had started to reject food which had increased her level of anxiety and gained him more attention . |
| 19 | His long fever had peeled the flesh from his bones and left him half his proper bulk , and the brown of his cheeks was yellow and drawn . |
| 20 | One of them was Edward Pease , who invited Durham to his home and asked him many questions . |
| 21 | There were no farewell parties for me when I left Moose Jaw , although Fred Workman took me to lunch and treated us both to a glass of ale at the Grant Hall Hotel . |
| 22 | From his alpaca coat he whipped a medicine bottle of colourless fluid , flourished it significantly at Dr McNab and drank it all off . |
| 23 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 24 | He smoked a cigarette and looked at her stubbly hair and bought her another brandy . |
| 25 | I gave him a pound coin and promised him another if he did his stuff and I walked over to Mrs Newton 's front door . |
| 26 | They barricaded the building and ocupied it all night . |
| 27 | But , predictably enough , the three turned up with three moose and bargained them all aboard , one on each wing , the third across the fuselage . |
| 28 | At first I could n't see them , but when I heard a little quack I had a close look and saw them all there huddled together and trying to keep warm . |
| 29 | On the moors O'Hara had endeavoured to summon up Heathcliff , and a gust of wind from beyond the grave had blown the cycle off course and toppled them both into a ditch . |
| 30 | He came back full of the experience and made us all quite envious , but he was able to see first hand what went on at the business end of the oil industry and picked up some useful knowledge for future reference when dealing with the oil men . |