Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes you 're right I 'd forgotten that boat trip . |
| 2 | Prior to this I had used many strange concoctions for the hopeful parents to swim in , even a brew made with oak leaves . |
| 3 | Um so erm I did have some I did have some references on this which erm unfortunately I I put to one side and I 've succeeded in losing so erm I did n't get the chance to put them on the handout but erm I 'm just alerting you to that area of debate and that area of enquiry . |
| 4 | So to get this You had to pay this , because when it came to the end of the quarter , you had to get your shopping out of that Cooperative , so that had to be paid . |
| 5 | I trailed up the hill after the others , thinking how different she looked wearing that stiff new uniform instead of her tatty little cotton dress and gym shoes . |
| 6 | I was staggered they managed to get such a large mouthful in a relatively small mouth ! |
| 7 | To prepare for this he had moved many of his photographs , pictures , books and other possessions from London so that the house , though not looking exactly as it did when he was there , became a showplace bursting with Shaviana . |
| 8 | To do this he had bought some loudspeakers from the government and the sparks had damaged them . |
| 9 | By 1933 it had recovered all the municipal seats it had lost in 1931 . |
| 10 | ‘ Jimmy Armfield signed me for Leeds United , but when Adamson took over it was clear he had lost some of his motivation after being sacked by Sunderland . |
| 11 | At 30 he had amassed enough knowledge of transcendental experience systems to make him a contender for the job of running what was regarded by many as one of Europe 's best Transcendental Operations Modules . |
| 12 | And he 'd always ask how much I 'd eaten that day . ’ |
| 13 | Composite thirteen you recommended to accept all those in favour ? |
| 14 | In 1991 we decided to end this duopoly . |
| 15 | It was not impossible they planned to work some malign mischief upon himself and the gullible Mistress Sinister . |
| 16 | When Jorge Serrano took office in January 1991 he promised to punish those responsible for human-rights abuses , yet the repression is as fierce and remorseless today as it ever was . |
| 17 | In December 1991 he refused to sign those parts of the founding charter of the Commonwealth of Independent States that guarantee respect for human rights . |
| 18 | The three principal figures in his demonology proved to be the Shah , Israel and the United States , and in a sermon against this trio in March 1963 he had done much to trigger the disturbances of that summer and the process that led to his banishment to Najaf in Iraq . |
| 19 | He realised how much he longed to wear that splendid sober regalia and take up a whip to drive a team of four horses . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sorry you had to hear that . ’ |
| 21 | It took her a week to make , that dress , she 'd made it specially for the dance at the police cadets ’ college , and then she 'd been so shy she 'd spent most of the evening in the Ladies . |
| 22 | Out of that she had to pay all expenses , including animal feed and coal , which left around five pounds a month for food . |
| 23 | After that she refused to shed another tear . |
| 24 | Strange , Gina thought , how much their two countries had in common and how little she had realised that element of kinship before . |
| 25 | I was enormously glad she had made that little speech for the mere sight of Erich — the knowledge that a man who worked as a painter in a Ford Taunus factory and was , in his own way , a type-specimen of Atlantic man , with no known connections with the new Ocean , had somehow fetched up on a remote Pacific island — was disturbing the entire thesis I wished to construct . |
| 26 | She told herself to calm down : at the worst they had lost each other and would have to go home separately . |
| 27 | By June 23rd he had found some , and took off to fly the bag to Balsley in his hospital . |
| 28 | But in Summer those were dry we had to carry all the water then . |
| 29 | Whoever was about to emerge from beneath the dripping straw roof of this tiny hut on this minute hamlet on the eastern edge of this unknown volcanic islet was the first person in the world to rise on this February Saturday morning : Homo Pacificus , the symbol of all I had travelled half a world to see . |
| 30 | I was pretty sure I 'd seen that coin before , in that very hotel . |