Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I suddenly found I had quite a lot of projects going on , working for Kenny Rogers and Jimmy Ruffin … |
| 2 | When one cooled she picked up the other and spat to test it . |
| 3 | Oh well we d did n't know if we were supposed to be congregating with rest of the people , or what so we just wandered we wandered down the hall |
| 4 | How he used it opened up a new realm for investigation . |
| 5 | You ca n't escape the noise in these thin little flats , so maybe he 's lying in bed , staring in the dark , listening to the personal stereo I told him fell off a lorry last Christmas , letting reggae drown the sound of grown-ups talking . |
| 6 | A bomb was brought to the house which Butler shared with Stephen Hill , and there Butler showed his co-accused how the device worked . |
| 7 | It was my good fortune to see a lot of Emily Carr and to be counted as a friend , for she claimed she had only a few . |
| 8 | When we arrived we sought out the ‘ dug out ’ . |
| 9 | These new men showed they had neither the time nor the political inclination to instigate a programme of Whig reform ; indeed , partly reacting against the Jacobite challenge of 1715 , they introduced a number of measures designed to ensure their and the new dynasty 's political security which seemed to represent an abandonment of what Whiggery had traditionally stood for . |
| 10 | There were five of them , and whenever they arrived they came up the woodland track on a big spreader wagon with a battered old van bouncing along behind . |
| 11 | but then on the erm , Saturday , and the , that 's , and then on I say then on the bloody Friday night what happened he fell out the bed I phoned |
| 12 | As it happened he pulled up a shattered Kersil seven from home . |
| 13 | Every area you look at South Africa in a report I gave to the Norwegian government which they commissioned we pointed out every area is like a major disaster area as if you 've been hit by an earthquake in every area of human activity and that situation needs something like a martial plan if we are , a martial aid plan , if we 're to address it but in the world we live in there 's no prospect of such assistance coming to Southern Africa . |
| 14 | ‘ I heard she got quite a reaction , did n't she ? ’ he wheezes and chuckles slyly , disingenuously , before getting serious . |
| 15 | When the wasps returned they landed where the entrances ‘ should ’ have been , in the centre of the circle of pine cones . |
| 16 | Although they discovered they had hardly a single taste in common , he was nonetheless a witty and amusing host and she found herself laughing in a way she had not done for a considerable time . |
| 17 | Jazzbeaux heard they did much the same thing in Jap corp boardrooms . |
| 18 | She wanted to be held by him , and as the sad , poignant music began it set up a yearning inside of her that she did n't know how to dispel . |
| 19 | Another alleged he carried out an illegal abortion at her home . |
| 20 | In the weeks that followed he built up a regular round of customers and boasted that it was better than going to work , especially on cold winter mornings . |
| 21 | The jury heard he carried out the attack on a post graduate Russian student as she cycled home across Oxford 's Port Meadow last July . |
| 22 | The court heard he set up a bank account with the Royal Bank of Scotland in Darlington in the name of Momen Garawand and then used cheque books to spend almost £6,500 . |
| 23 | When Celtic lost I knew how the players felt . |
| 24 | This was the business end of her trip but before she started she wandered along a crowded beach , taking photographs of the sands , waterskiers and windsurfers , the tree-lined promenade and the backdrop of mountains beyond . |
| 25 | As they worked they monitored continuously the condition of the sea and the sky , the direction of the wind and the length of the day and the night . |
| 26 | Councillors decided he had n't a prayer of getting away with it . |
| 27 | The ideas were always Durance 's , he always initiated the paintings and when his hands permitted he carried out the work , but as he had become increasingly crippled the execution had been left more and more to his protégée . |
| 28 | The company claimed last night that Mr Onanuga and Mr Newton now agreed they made up the whole story of Mr Lamont 's visit . |
| 29 | She said well it 's too late now , the the clear one 's full so we just anyway , went I went down the next day there 's a new one or , next time , there 's a new one down there so they , they must obviously think , well put them all in together . |
| 30 | I did water-colours mostly but I 'd just started painting in oils and felt I had quite a talent for it , but they were n't very encouraging … |