Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each person had thought that he or she knew him best and each person had felt he had the right to more sadness than the others . |
| 2 | He hated to see a dripping tap , and nothing made him angrier than Blackpool Tower blazing with , what to him was , utterly squandered energy . |
| 3 | Under his guidance , Parliament House was transformed from a nineteenth-century warren into a modern court-house and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to explore , and share with others , its secrets and treasures . |
| 4 | He was no respecter of persons or institutions or ideas just because they were vested with a brief authority , and nothing gave him more pleasure than to prick the bubble of pretension . |
| 5 | And me ate them all |
| 6 | and whom did he first tell of this passion ? |
| 7 | I usually keep him in when I wash his clothes and I got them special for the cold weather so he should be all right . |
| 8 | and I got them both out whole an all |
| 9 | And I got them some of that , urgh urgh ! |
| 10 | And I got her two strips of Elastaplast . |
| 11 | That was my understanding and I got it right and discussed it with him |
| 12 | By the way , Jerry and I got it easy ; we just moved a chair or two if required . |
| 13 | And I got it all wrong . |
| 14 | And I got it wrong . |
| 15 | and I wrote it all down , couple of days |
| 16 | and I heard it all before I got out of bed . |
| 17 | and I swapped him this elephant |
| 18 | Well I know where my oh is that yours ? it 's in my overall pockets and I , I tell you what 's in the , in the thing with it , me petrol one and I had me premium punch put on there look . |
| 19 | But then I had another er one within er two years and I had them both fairly quickly . |
| 20 | And I had it all down |
| 21 | So she had it first , you had it second erm daddy had it third and I had it fourth . |
| 22 | ‘ We became roommates and I taught him all he knows . ’ |
| 23 | And you carried on and I shot you dead I 'd get away with that . |
| 24 | When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago , we decided to look after you as well as we could . |
| 25 | I did have a load of that tops and I took them all down the . |
| 26 | When I look back , I see how easy and comfortable and pleasant my life was , and I took it all for granted ! |
| 27 | I met a soldier from the Rifle Brigade who was very drunk , and I made him drunker . |
| 28 | And I thought it best not to ask . ’ |
| 29 | You needed to have a good , full , thick crop of hair to plait in order to achieve this effect , and I thought it nice . |
| 30 | It was blue with a high red collar and I thought it cheap-looking and ugly . |