Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And onto ou round Australia and that and I mentioned I started in New Foundland , yes . |
| 2 | An inquest into Beverley 's death found she died of natural causes but had slipped through the net of caring representatives like her GP and social worker . |
| 3 | When the music stopped they looked at each other for a long moment , then reluctantly drew apart . |
| 4 | The two men found they agreed on many points about today 's press . |
| 5 | A great cultural movement like the twelfth-century Renaissance can not be explained in simple terms : the influences and the inspiration which created it flowed through many channels , some of them deep beneath the ground . |
| 6 | His last owner found he suffered from many anxiety-induced health problems including cribbing , psychosomatic skin conditions , and chronic colic ; and also behavioural problems including tongue over the bit , reluctance to eat , fear of being in a large yard or paddock , inability to walk , trot , or canter properly , and sheer terror if he thought he had done something wrong ! |
| 7 | Unfortunately they were again delayed by rough terrain , and when they got to the road they found it choked with German armour heading for the front . |
| 8 | The anger obsessed her , but later she turned it on herself and found it mixed with shamed bewilderment . |
| 9 | And when she woke she turned with such longing to where he had lain and called his name and thought she would do anything for him , anything at all he wanted , because she loved him , she loved him , she loved him . |
| 10 | I assumed she subscribed to that of her kin . |
| 11 | Of course they 're all putting their hands up by me see , and Da , I thought David would clock , and he never said a word , I thought he ai n't sussed it , anyway they went on this night out and the girls kept saying , Debbie saying oh Lynn just come , I said I ai n't got no intentions of coming , I said David 's going amongst all the others I 'm not going , so Debbie said why , I said why because David is nothing but a wanker , a lot , along , a lot of the others , she said , she nearly fell off the chair , gordon bennett she said I never thought you , I never realised you felt like that , I said Debbie if you knew half of what I thought you would fall off that chair |
| 12 | ‘ I never realised you felt like this , Edward , ’ said Mrs Fitton petulantly . |
| 13 | A post mortem revealed she died from natural causes and the coroner ruled there was no need for an inquest . |
| 14 | As her father had so often complained , to engage with this task was to enter a labyrinth , and it seemed that whichever way she turned she came to this impasse . |
| 15 | But if you hammered you had to careful to miss the joints : the felloes were dowelled together and if you hit one of the joints the wrong way , the dowel was certain to break . |
| 16 | On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’ |
| 17 | Punk rock was over by then anyway ( real punks claimed it finished in 1976 , but who were the ‘ real ’ punks ? ) and in its place there was an orgy of cross-cultural pollination , based entirely upon received ideas . |
| 18 | The new state comprised the historic provinces of Bohemia and Moravia together with Slovakia which , until 1918 , had been part of Hungary , together with Ruthenia and a northern fringe of the Hungarian plain which , though it was Magyar-speaking , the new state claimed it needed on economic grounds . |
| 19 | Neither do you 'ave to pay a hundred quid like I 'eard it cost at one time . ’ |
| 20 | In the silence that followed I reached for another scone . |
| 21 | When the magazine folded she specialised in dried flowers which had the virtue of not being able to shriek back . |
| 22 | ( ‘ I heard it said of one of Hitler 's speeches : ‘ Oh , she 's in a right state ’ , ’ the author recalls . ) |
| 23 | When we first drank claret we heard it called by that name , we were eating such and such a dinner etc . |
| 24 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 25 | While they talked she glanced at three photographs framed on a shelf . |
| 26 | The slam of the door and its subsequent splitting as the axe hit it merged into one sound . |
| 27 | She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep . |
| 28 | Ben spent so much time playing computer games , barely pausing to eat , that lately I 'd sometimes wondered if he knew I existed at all . |
| 29 | PAUSE I thought I knew at last who you were , why you liked me at school , why you took the trouble to read those poems I 'd written . |
| 30 | They thought I meant for five seconds but I made them practise holding their tone for twenty or thirty seconds . |