Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.

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1	In contrast , Watford 's teamwork and crisp passing made them look by far the better side on view at Vicarage Road .
2	The brief comments recorded here made me long for more : ‘ How did Ophelia know to scratch her legs like she did ?
3	What on earth made me imagine for even one second that I would have enough strength to confront Luke ?
4	And when I got I says to here , I 'm sick of having to out all them cigarettes .
5	How much it cost you to get over there Tramp ?
6	Rachel found she had to almost bite her tongue to prevent herself making some comment .
7	No , whoever caught him hunting for more knew that there was more there to be found — knew it because he himself had come out as soon as he dared , to remove whatever was there to a place of greater safety .
8	Moreover , if banks wish to attract more borrowers , they might well consider how they can soften the rather forbidding image which we found they have for so many people .
9	Jenna moved and he let her go at once , coming lithely to his feet and helping her up .
10	She let it grow to about half , then left it and took his testicles in her cupped hand .
11	When he walked into a crowded bar he always found he had at least half the bar to himself .
12	Having been made to look stupid , he let us go without even checking up on the tax or the tyre .
13	Tea helped us rise at 3am for the final climb .
14	My solicitor told me to expect at least four years because of my previous convictions : I 've got deception , deception , fraud , grievous bodily harm , assault , malicious wounding , drugs , deception and then again deception .
15	He surveyed the scene of human chaos and the mud patch that used to be the floor , raised his voice above the high-pitched din and yelled ‘ Who told you to come in here , you silly children ?
16	Shell , plasticine , you know I told you need in there , you need a plastic spoon , that 's for wood is n't it ?
17	I told her to stay in there as well .
18	When Hazel woke he perceived at once that it was morning — some time after sunrise , by the smell of it .
19	‘ Yes , ’ whispered Fenella , and wished that Caspar had not used the word sucking , because it made you think about coldly evil creatures with grisly appetites , who might leap on to you and cling to you and sink teeth and claws and needle-sharp pincers into you and suck out your blood and your marrow and all your life juices …
20	On the whole , he disliked comparisons , because they made you think about more than one thing at a time .
21	Instead she fiddled with a paper napkin , and when he did n't say anything she said , ‘ I never expected you to come over here . ’
22	The social mobility of the era allowed them to rise from apparently mundane working class communities to live a more glamorous life in the company of the rich and famous .
23	No words passed between them , and as his strides lengthened she had to almost run to keep up with him .
24	There was a thing called a B licence which allowed you to go within about twenty five miles with somebody else 's goods .
25	Thatcher never laid out her ideal world for everyone to shoot down — she and her cronies unveiled it bit by beautifully packaged bit .
26	It ordered me to return at once and in no circumstances to try to enter Bahdu .
27	Those were the last words I heard him say for over two years .
28	When I started I had to right back to the very beginning and start from three letter words .
29	That would be loss enough if I watched him go with only longing for him in my heart but there is instead a bitterness because he is happy to go life there being preferable to here where there is only his tired wife for company .
30	Jacky Lee , it seemed , had arrived in time , as an eighteen year old , to be part of Peter Thomson 's British Open swansong , but seven years later , Queenslander Thomson decided he had at least one more British Open title to win in him .

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