Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nenna wished to reply that it was not for the expected reasons — not pride , not resentment , not even the curious acquired characteristics of the river dwellers , which made them scarcely at home in London 's streets . |
| 2 | Mrs Hollidaye took off her leather gloves and laid them neatly on top of her handbag on the pew beside her , straightened her hat and unhooked a cushion which hung from a brass hook beneath the shelf . |
| 3 | We met them afterwards on stage . |
| 4 | Asked what concerned them most in connection with nuclear power , respondents named the possibility of accidents , human error and the storage of radioactive waste . |
| 5 | Then laid me gently in bed . |
| 6 | And she was all right because when I got back here , she drove up and asked me over for coffee . |
| 7 | When I was making runs at Leeds Graham Gooch came up and asked me how on earth I was batting so well on that pitch . |
| 8 | He asked me back for lunch after the Eucharist . |
| 9 | They asked me in for tea , and we all listened to the morning news on Radio Tonga , crackling over the miles from the aerials down in Tongatapu . |
| 10 | ‘ Within four minutes he asked me out to dinner . |
| 11 | We chatted so much on that first date , and then Denise asked me out to dinner the next night . |
| 12 | My mother 's stories also led me away from home . |
| 13 | But I was promoting a Neil Diamond concert and one day he got me up on stage during this tour , and introduced me to the audience . |
| 14 | He often got me out of bed , late on an evening , to run an errand . |
| 15 | Well , the old chap come and got me out of school that morning to take this horse to Norwich . |
| 16 | Everything went wrong , but she got me out of trouble . |
| 17 | No I backed the first winner today and that got me out of trouble . |
| 18 | ‘ You got me out of gaol . |
| 19 | ‘ Like I said , ’ he explained , ‘ after those last months in Sweden , the Ruskis made me up to Captain . |
| 20 | All eyes opened now to stare , and indeed the pages of the book were turning back , slowly , hesitantly , lingering erect only to slide onward , sometimes a single leaf , sometimes a stronger breath riffling several over together , almost as though fingers lifted and guided them , even fluttered them past in haste . |
| 21 | Many grandmothers who lived with their grandchildren helped look after them , made their clothes , got them up for school , minded them while their mothers went out to work : ‘ I thought of my grandmother even more so than my mother cos she was always there , you see . |
| 22 | Indeed , she was conscious of good fortune in having at last got a council flat in Southwark , and in having good neighbours in the flat across the landing who saw that her children — a boy of nine and a girl of seven — ate their breakfast , and got them off to school . |
| 23 | By February 1916 pressure was mounting again , and resolutions calling for compulsory national service were flowing in ; the Executive refused to debate them , but passed them on to Law nevertheless . |
| 24 | The genitors of the children had a recognized standing in relation to their spouses but they visited them only at night and did not take food in the taravad house of their " wives " . |
| 25 | thrashed them out of sight , could n't fucking believe it , when you 've seen a pool table , erm , pool game go on for two hours , that 's when you know you |
| 26 | sort of , the , the last pair went , went on and on and on , it got to twelve o'clock and the the , the landlord said right that 's it he said I 'm closing down no matter what , he said I 'd , I 've , he was n't eleven o'clock on , he said that 's it I ca n't keep it open any longer , so they closed it down , we called the game off , called it a boring match , they came down the club , fucking played them there , thrashed them out of sight first four games , no first five games , five nil , straight away , wahey , fucking walloped them , walloped their that was the , that was the league champion 's as well , Post Office in Grantham |
| 27 | So , from a safe distance , he plucked meanings from the cosmos and wove them together in reassurance . |
| 28 | Afterwards ( another former Lancaster student ) invited me home to tea , and in the evening , and I were entertained at home by |
| 29 | At Barvas Lodge knickerbockered ladies with good stud pearl earrings invited me in for tea . |
| 30 | Although the chapel communities of Rational Dissent , largely identified with Unitarianism by the early nineteenth century , were fiercely proud of their constitutional autonomy , there was a framework of cultural institutions which drew them together in book societies , college trusts and publishing networks . |