Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got outside I found Mum in the yard , waving her arms about and giving directions to the neighbours whom she was organising for the party . |
| 2 | ‘ When they came home I took time off a typing course I was doing so we could be together . |
| 3 | Yes she come yesterday afternoon I sat and I says I 'll have a go , I says then I had flu did n't I ? |
| 4 | Do n't watch then she answered chaffinch |
| 5 | Sounds like they had barney . |
| 6 | When I returned home I told Dad what had happened and what Albert had said . |
| 7 | In the tent that night we eat smoked trout and Odd-Knut tells us that the previous year there was a fight on his team and after it was over and the dogs were moving again he saw blood on the snow . |
| 8 | In doing so he avoided confrontation : the State continued to be guided by a primary concern for the interests of the landed nobility . |
| 9 | Not much it seems so I asked manageress Janet to explain . |
| 10 | As they gossiped noisily I followed Granny who was pulling the reluctant animal towards our house . |
| 11 | Knowing also his hinted promise was likely to be so much dust . |
| 12 | So having gone there I got counselling which I found was very useful to me . |
| 13 | You got then you got Dragon 's Lair , forty two pound ninety nine . |
| 14 | As always , when he was criticised unkindly he smelled persecution . |
| 15 | As he did so he lost control of the vehicle which rolled over smashed into a lamp-post . |
| 16 | During the 18 years they had lived in Sion House in Tunbridge Wells they had grown accustomed to its neo-classical spaciousness , but since two of their four children had married and left home it made sense to move to somewhere smaller . |
| 17 | Israel 's Justice Ministry said yesterday it accepted evidence that Mengele is dead . |
| 18 | Transport minister Roger Freeman said yesterday he expected legislation to begin in the new year and be complete by October . |
| 19 | John Biffen , the former Leader of the Commons and Chief Secretary to the Treasury , said yesterday he found government policy ‘ confusing ’ , and party nerves were not calmed by a fringe speech from Sir Geoffrey Howe , the deputy prime minister , which echoed some of Michael Heseltine 's criticism on Tuesday of government policy and presentation . |
| 20 | And , when you come home you said mum did did you fix this ? |
| 21 | Morrison said later he felt Border had edged the ball , but he agreed that television replays appeared to show the ‘ woody ’ sound was probably the ball touching the stump . |