Example sentences of "[pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
2 | At the turn for home Baby Turk led from Nemain and Acatenango , but behind them the four runners owned by the Aga Khan — Shardari , Dinistan , Darara and Shahrastani — were making their efforts , and over a quarter of a mile out Shardari hit the front , closely pursued by Shahrastani and Darara . |
3 | For working-class girls ( unlike middle-class girls , for whom comprehensives potentially offered them the academic education denied to many under the systems of 11 + weighting ) comprehensives probably made little difference . |
4 | Returning to our canine theme , dogs still carry with them the same instincts possessed by their wild ancestors , still remaining members of that same species — the wild wolf — even after so many generations of breeding have made them what must be the most diverse species upon Earth . |
5 | I can not express to you the enchanted effect produced by this Arabian scene of colour as the wind blew aside the great waterfall behind which we stood and hid . |
6 | Your COSMOS FUNBREAK holiday is carefully planned to give you the maximum time spent at the EURO DISNEYLAND Theme Park , whilst your travel and accommodation arrangements have been sensibly selected to combine comfort and convenience at truly low prices . |
7 | Only trial and error will teach you the exact amount needed for the number of babies you have . |
8 | Going through my files the other day , I vaguely remembered sending you a little effort called Offensive from Quasar 13 — just over seven months ago , it must have been . |
9 | Why , he even once built me a tiny crystal set in an empty match box saying , ‘ Here , Kit . |
10 | She showed me a large bag made of toughened brown paper with a sealing device at the mouth . |
11 | The captain showed them a rough map drawn crudely on tough , brown vellum and with a stubby finger and guttural comments pointed out the coastline of Fife , the manor of Kinghorn and the possible place where the French could dock to pick up a party from the beach . |
12 | Are we the only dogs chosen for our star signs or have any of you had this star treatment ? |
13 | All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat . |
14 | In front of him the torpid lizards stirred in their cage on the picture box . |
15 | In the long opening mime section Bocca 's graceful arrogance was eloquently coupled to the desperate impatience to meet Nikiya ( Viviana Durante ) , and once dancing with her the two qualities sparked into a heady ardour . |
16 | The maids found her the next morning hunched up in the laundry cupboard on the landing , dozing lightly . |
17 | So I found him a small house called Kirk o'Field , outside Edinburgh . |
18 | He gripped a pair of reins in his hand and behind him a blaze-faced chestnut nosed at the cobbles , whilst the two wolves sat by his feet . |
19 | Amiss made him a deep bow followed by a noiseless , but enthusiastic clapping of hands . |
20 | The expert will in most cases want each party to send him a written submission accompanied by copies of the documents referred to or relied on in the submission . |
21 | In its final moments a sophisticated urbane man in a nightclub is led discreetly through a back door into a room which is a mortuary run by nuns , one of whom shows him a dead body drawn out of a wall on a slab . |
22 | One lunchtime Minton , wearing what seemed to her a hideous sweater knitted for him by his mother , sat opposite her in the school restaurant . |
23 | His expression gentled and he gave her a slow smile filled with a conviction that was very male and utterly sure . |
24 | On the second day they gave her a rubber ball attached on a long elastic thread to a wooden bat . |
25 | was taken out of his chair of majestie , having upon him an upper robe adorned with precious stones of all sorts , orient pearls of great quantitie , but always augmented in riches . |
26 | ‘ Is it the actual arrow used by ABC in their hit song ‘ Poison Arrow ’ ? ’ |
27 | The reason I have given it the temporary title referred to above is because I have witnessed at least two name exchanges at the station in recent months . |
28 | The American golf historian Herb Warren Wind has called it the greatest bunker shot in all championship play . |
29 | But it carries with it the usual problem associated with rapid and anonymous observations , viz. lack of information on the social identity of the speaker . |
30 | Why was it the gorgeous ones passed through so fleetingly while others , like that paunchy , moist-palmed Vic Tatum from Marine Claims always managed to delay in her office , ogling , leering and making suggestive remarks that she could probably take to a Sexual Harassment Tribunal if she had a mind to ! |