Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out popped a very strange gentleman from this aircraft that I noticed had American markings , but I still did not know what the aircraft was , I had a vague idea but I was not sure . |
| 2 | But you can imagine my surprise when I angled said state-of-the-art bins to the street , watched the long black car as it rolled up and saw the self-same guy step out of it . |
| 3 | The members of it I knew had all sorts of behaviour , public and private . |
| 4 | The particular portfolio I saw had twenty-seven etchings many being straight-forward views of Ambleside and elsewhere but included were prints of ‘ Oak trees in Rydal Park ’ , of ‘ Yew tree in Patterdale churchyard ’ and ‘ Birch trees in Coom Gill ’ . |
| 5 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 6 | And and in this the street where you lived did most people have taps |
| 7 | which you decided had some prospects of being reclaimed . |
| 8 | When Wilson was obliged to rest on the stairs , they both begged her not to continue and when she insisted went either side of her , helping her along . |
| 9 | She mentioned that she kept had some Ercol furniture . |
| 10 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 11 | None of the organisations we contacted had large ranges to choose from but they might be able to help you out with information charts and publicity posters for a small or no charge . |
| 12 | Here we had a man who we knew had serious problems that constituted a danger to himself and others , and we sat back , simply because we were waiting for him to admit he had a problem . ’ |
| 13 | Naturally you expect to find the highest quality construction in the world in a Mercedes , but the 500SL we tested had numerous faults that we thought ‘ undermined Mercedes ' quality image and appearance ’ . |
| 14 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 15 | When we came overseas that metal trailer that we had had heavy wheels on it . |
| 16 | Second , the solution they sought had serious implications for civil liberties since sections would effectively deprive individuals of their liberty . |
| 17 | The men and women whom they encountered showed neither hostility towards their new enemies nor enthusiasm for a great patriotic war : |
| 18 | None of the watering places they visited showed any signs of fresh tracks , and no animals were sighted in the first hour . |
| 19 | Everyone in Knockglen heard about it in record time , but what they heard bore little relation to the facts . |
| 20 | And er they felt had little prestige and that the French peop The French Canadian speakers had little prestige in their own language . |
| 21 | This money was initially paid out to distributors as a stimulus to set up a network of satellite producers but , after the corporation had trouble recovering the £3 million invested in Korda 's British Lion , money was directed into individual projects which they thought had commercial potential , as the percentage of the budget ( usually 30 per cent ) that could n't be raised from a distributor . |
| 22 | And they , they had had some experience or were they engineers or something |
| 23 | He got hitched fifteen years ago to some fashion model . |
| 24 | Freud had always supposed that the various forms of innate behaviour he explored had biological bases to them . |
| 25 | The Iraqi government submitted a 300-page report which it claimed gave full details of its arms of mass destruction . |
| 26 | Three of them he thought had special gifts but five were " dangerous " . |
| 27 | At night a light had to be on all the time and Blake 's prison clothes had to be placed outside his cell while , during the day , the clothes he wore had distinctive patches of coloured cloth on them to show that he was on the escape list . |
| 28 | One week he he broke the record , he pulled f He brought brought forty tubs down and then the following week he got killed and he 'd only got seven on . |
| 29 | But also , he was drawn towards Bernard , whose vision and single-mindedness he greatly admired , and a business which he felt had great potential for further growth . |
| 30 | Both newspapers he bought had big articles on the murder of Nicola Sharpe . |