Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 2 | But they should know that anyway , or I made that point yesterday , so er th the point they quoted was that erm erm rang up the team and got told no you 've got ta put it on a fax , find it hard to believe that that was if that was the manager on the phone but it 's just important that the people on the team know who the senior managers are . |
| 3 | ‘ It was n't because I saw some guy and said , ‘ Hey , he gets a lot of girls , ’ or I saw some guy and said , ‘ Man , I want to be that guy , ’ because there 's no-one on earth I want to be . |
| 4 | It 's not because I had Christian parents , it 's not because I 'd some advantage over you , or you had some advantage over me , it is all of God 's graciousness , it is all of God 's giving ! |
| 5 | But suppose now suppose I were a middle-aged to elderly teacher who had never come across dyslexia until recently and was now aware that he or she had dyslexic pupils , the first thing to do , I think , is to inform yourself . |
| 6 | There is also a strong sense of' learning' , in which the student identifies with the truth claim he or she is faced with , and can offer it ( for example , back to the consultant physician ) as something with which he or she had personal experience ( having had an opportunity to examine some patients ) . |
| 7 | However , there are both practical and legal problems in cases where the woman says that she consented through fear only : she did not resist , because she thought that it would be hopeless in the circumstances , she was terrified , or she feared serious violence . |
| 8 | Some letters were found to be more often confused with other letters and these letters were deemed to share similar features E G , B and P were often confused whereas B and X were n't so you 'd be flashing either a series sequence of letters up , some of which shared features , some of which did n't , or we thought shared features , and then we saw whether they were confused or not , and this was taken to support the idea that features were extracted from the input , or that 's how we constructed the letters or characters that we were perceiving . |
| 9 | The other boys either had enormous appetites for books of many kinds , or they had native wit . |
| 10 | However , neither Gabriel 's lab nor ours had much idea of how , if at all , the IMHV and the LPO might be functionally connected , or what part each region played in the general economy of the brain . |
| 11 | Jerry looked up to me as his hero ; the rapport and affinity between him and me transcended all things ; with us it was true brotherly love , which exists to this day , with no ulterior motives … no payments … no conditions . |
| 12 | Father-in-law and me soldiered six weeks to restore it looks now . |
| 13 | Then I used to go dancing down at down the and I 'd strict orders to get in on a Saturday night early , but it was always eleven o'clock walking on my own back . |
| 14 | He moved away and I popped another frame and he punched me — ‘ No , you do n't take it . ’ |
| 15 | As Mr Charles , our chief male nurse and I passed each other on our way to and from the admission ward and our offices we had first one and then another sorry tale to tell . |
| 16 | Loud bangs started upstairs and I imagined all kinds of things were happening . |
| 17 | I was the criminal , in and out of prison all my life , and I got fourteen years on the prison-ship . |
| 18 | Yeah , downstairs , Clara and erm and one just carried on going straight and I got seventeen things that I can eat |
| 19 | I put two pounds in the machine up there and I got fifteen pounds , I got the three bars , er , not the three , two bars and some nudges and I nudged it |
| 20 | And I got thirty pound twenty five for it . |
| 21 | Yeah , and I got four Rottweilers . |
| 22 | I put a couple of quid in and I got four pounds something cos er went and bought some fags out of the machine and then I got the er the brown note flashing , from ten P so I stopped I have stopped . |
| 23 | I have to record loads of tapes , no no not just these ones and I got other ones at home , I 've got have a bath , I 've got clean up my bedroom and you know . |
| 24 | And I got new trainers . |
| 25 | And I got two polo necks one with slight ribs in . |
| 26 | I I saw it somewhere and I got lost track of it . |
| 27 | Well , I went home and I got another job and it , then I went back , I says can I have me card ? |
| 28 | and I got some fruit up the market on Friday . |
| 29 | there was this er butchers , and I went in there and I got some sausages , oh , er nobody said anything about these sausages I just thought well I 'd better take something back for Fred 's dinner so I went in and got these sausages , well they were the nicest sausages I 've ever tasted in my life |
| 30 | I set fire to a barn , not realising that there was a sick cow in there that perished , and I got three years ’ approved school . |