Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes and er I er they got me on that and I 'd er seen a bit on it before hand one way or another , but I went to a place and , and asked them if I could er see and er they showed me and explained it , the er the way to er . |
| 2 | As they became confident , she moved them into faster and more daring exhibitions , inciting them to dive skilfully for a titbit or a ‘ lure ’ . |
| 3 | Clarkson 's narrative revealed his own perseverance and commitment until exhaustion and financial difficulty overtook him in 1794 and Hoare fastened upon Clarkson 's continuing ‘ zeal ’ . |
| 4 | 8 Instead of multiplying a number by 98 , Julie multiplied it by 89 and got the answer 23,585 . |
| 5 | 5 Instead of multiplying a number by 42 , Jane multiplied it by 24 and got 432 . |
| 6 | Let's try and get it on the board , which somebody has written on and I told them about that and asked them to clean it , but , bring a spray can of white paint next time . |
| 7 | The US President received him in 1978 and so did the Queen — but the purges went on . |
| 8 | He is , after all , the Chairman of that committee but certainly I advised him against that and I thought it was totally wrong er to do it in the way he did and I , I think it was a shame for this Council that he , that he did go ahead , but there you are . |
| 9 | I reduced it to 14 and regular hours . |
| 10 | She rented the Duchess of Norfolk 's mansion in St James 's Square and filled it with red and white roses for a party . |
| 11 | ‘ After a while the sun beat down upon the mist and filled it with light and warmth , and a wind blew and the mist thinned and cleared . |
| 12 | Studio head Richard Zanuck paid him between one and two million dollars so that the film could be released that year , with a guarantee to compensate him if the show 's gross takings fell below $60,000 a week for an agreed period . |
| 13 | She dug it in deeper and it gave a horrific screech . |
| 14 | As for the computer password , on the other hand , this reviewer guessed it in one and had to wait twenty-odd pages for Casaubon to catch up . |
| 15 | She opened it at random and placed it on Matilda 's desk . |
| 16 | Thompson won the Olympic title that year , 1980 , successfully defended it in 1984 and has n't completed a decathlon since finishing fourth in the 1988 Games in Seoul . |
| 17 | He gathered six double sheets from the drenched berths , folded them in half and left them by the companionway . |
| 18 | This was not only because , in Walton 's words , his poems ‘ had comforted and raised many disjected and discomposed souls and charmed them into sweet and quiet thoughts ’ ; he was honoured too for his loyalty to the middle way between the excesses of Rome and the austerities of the Puritans , which he expressed with such affection in his poem ‘ The British Church ’ : |
| 19 | They brushed her like strengthless and accusing hands . |
| 20 | They were in , aha , yeah , they were in bed , right , and this , look , in bed , listen to this , sound asleep it 's on the radio and news , they 're asleep in bed with two girls and the boys , the boy was in bed fast asleep and somebody come and touched him like that and when she woke up it was this , this the lad |
| 21 | Boston did not ignite the recombinant-DNA controversy but it vigorously seized the torch and raised it to national and worldwide visibility . |
| 22 | Scott heard it at last and looked around , fumbling for the taps , trying to turn off the shower . |
| 23 | The Judge held that George was responsible for instigating the crime and jailed him for four and a half years . |
| 24 | This time they rested on her shoulders , then pulled her with gentle and insistent strength into the wall of his chest . |
| 25 | It is from Boswell that we learn of the height of nun Can , Raasay 's peak on which he danced a Highland reel with old Malcolm Macleod who called him between five and six in the morning to go walking . |
| 26 | Thus she not only shouted at him , she once took his best blowpipe , broke it in two and stamped on it . |
| 27 | And we used to have what they call er a stick and goos it used to I remember we used to have sti what you call stick and goos It was like a great long thing like that and you used to have a stick and it used to be on the floor and you just tap it and and hit it like that and it goes |
| 28 | I watched it in first and I went |
| 29 | When I had occasion to talk to the Home Secretary about this , I asked him about this and he said oh , we want it to be local and I said you mean local not region and he said yes , local and I hope my noble friend who was there will remember that when he comes to decide whether this region things ever going to get a running . |
| 30 | The overall result was that All Hallows were third , behind Marple Hall , whose local knowledge brought them in first and Queen Elizabeth GS , Wakefield . |