Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I ever saw J[ack] work more than half an hour without the cry of ‘ Barboys ! ’ — ‘ Coming , dear ! ’ , down would go the pen , and he would be away perhaps five minutes , perhaps half an hour ; possibly to do nothing more important than stand by the kitchen range as scullery maid . |
| 2 | And I do n't think I really expected Feargal to go down to Rosslare ! |
| 3 | ‘ Well , say I then took Fiona off him and maybe I told him to go find himself another filly and the next thing was he got a pincer-hold on my ear and was bopping me one on the nose and there I was bleeding fit to fill the Frenchy furrows so naturally I gave him one back . ’ |
| 4 | Like Powdermaker ( 1967 ) , who recorded fieldnotes in Mississippi only when she was away from her field data , I found I only took notes at the time if I was willing to risk begin interrogated about what I was going to do with the information I was recording . |
| 5 | So though I was a member of the Travellers ’ and did my serious entertaining there , for socialising I infinitely preferred ffeatherstonehaugh 's . ’ |
| 6 | " I honestly did n't know you still had interests like that , Edith . " |
| 7 | Three times as the president spoke , Diana flashed him the kind of flattering sideways glances she once gave Charles . |
| 8 | She plans to encourage her predominantly teenaged followers take an interest in politics at a grass-roots level . |
| 9 | I was lucky , bought the books , took the treasure home and found they only covered A to M. Nevertheless I found them interesting and still thought they were a bargain . |
| 10 | She found it only made things worse if she struggled , bringing her even more intimately against his muscular shape . |
| 11 | I hope I only said parrot . |
| 12 | We might formulate his newly discovered principle as ‘ One ought not to eat too much ’ , but very probably it would be first encountered by him as ‘ Sensible people do n't eat too much ’ . |
| 13 | Ben parked his newly acquired BMW at the roadside and hoped it would be there when he returned , reassuring himself that in this place of utter solitude car thieves were n't likely to creep out of the hedgerows with duplicate keys . |
| 14 | Andrew Hagans , who denies raping Mrs McGurk , says he only told police he did n't know her to protect her good name . |
| 15 | He says he once told Peter he had ‘ the ignorance of his brother without the excuse of his genius ’ . |
| 16 | I mean he initially did n't wan na know and then you went on about er and came up with the idea of well I 'm very fit , the family 's fit never have any problems health wise erm the o the only thing there you , I do n't think you actually mentioned possibility of accident |
| 17 | Belatedly she realised she only wore bra and panties . |
| 18 | ‘ You mean you never loved Mum ? ’ |
| 19 | The sweet trolley arrived , and he was dismayed to see she still had appetite for a generous wedge of Black Forest Gâteau . |
| 20 | I ca n't believe I actually bought Benson but they never said that |
| 21 | He had shared a drink with barmaid Louise Shipman , who then claimed they also had sex at a Leicester hotel . |
| 22 | On the boat , Johnson asked about ‘ the use of the dirk , with which he imagined the Highlanders cut their meat ’ , and was told they also had knives and forks , that the men tended to hand the knives and forks to the women after they had cut their own meat which they then ate from their hands , and that one old Macdonald retainer always ate fish with his fingers , claiming that ‘ a knife and fork gave it a bad taste ’ . |
| 23 | If that was the case , it seemed unlikely that he would ever be able to return safely to the Middle East , but three months later , the DIA showed it still had plans for him . |
| 24 | Sometimes Julia accompanied her , and as they travelled home one day Carrie said thoughtfully , ‘ You know I never wished Ma dead , Julie , but I 've got to admit her death came at the right time for me . |
| 25 | I know I never met Bill , but from all you said of him he reminded me much too much of a man I once knew and loved . |
| 26 | I know you never considered Madeleine was the right girl for me and no one in this whole world knows me as well as you do , so I ca n't ignore your opinion , even though I 'd like to . |
| 27 | ‘ You know we always used candles down here when we were using the workbench , Joe . |
| 28 | Guests wishing it well included Robert Lindsay and Michael Palin . |
| 29 | Delmar Menjamim flew his replica Gee Bee R–2 racer , the Eagles Aerobatic Team performed a faultless routine in their trio of Christen Eagles , a scintillating performance was given by Bobby Younkin in his Beech 18 , a routine which included barrel rolls ! , but probably the most unusual of all was Craig Hisking , who flew his much modified Pitts Special , which has been fitted with an undercarriage on the top wing , enabling him to land upside down as well as the right way up . |
| 30 | As a Methodist minister , Father was a performer of a very special sort , and in a way I guess I just swapped congregations for audiences . |