Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just thought it all through and realised I was wrong . |
| 2 | ‘ I could n't talk and realised it was serious . |
| 3 | He immediately booked a flight to Toulouse , saw a house 35 miles north-west of Toulouse in a small hamlet and realised it was ideal as a home as well as an auberge . |
| 4 | When they tried to question him they received unintelligible replies and realised he was drunk . |
| 5 | Noel Wright , prosecuting , said : ‘ The defendant is an enthusiastic DIY man and admitted he was responsible . ’ |
| 6 | Fans turned up to gigs in ridiculous anoraks , sold fanzines with names like Frothy Pop and pretended they were carefree 18-year-olds . |
| 7 | Well the thing is , I got caught once before in the other place when I went to Manor of the Groves where I tried to book out erm and found I was late for the first erm |
| 8 | I checked with Pike and found I was correct : according to custom and practice my job description formed a part of my contract . |
| 9 | Some woman journalist friend of his had a handicapped daughter and found she was entitled to virtually no help looking after her , whereas if she fostered someone else 's kid she got any number of handouts . |
| 10 | A MAN turned up for Old Bailey jury service yesterday — and found he was due to try his 20-year-old son for burglary . |
| 11 | Tom touched his cheek and found it was cold . |
| 12 | Then he looked it up and found it was some priceless Tsarist cross he 'd turned down . |
| 13 | Last night I had no idea how to pronounce it and assumed it was pure Quechua . |
| 14 | He also followed up a rumour that another ME I 10 had crash-landed north of Glasgow the same night , although he did not get to the bottom of it , and assumed it was more evidence of the Scottish Saturday Night . |
| 15 | The woman was reprimanded for " a heap of lies " and told she was entitled to nothing unless " we liked to give her daughter 's child a pair of shoes " . |
| 16 | I 've also had the wiring checked numerous times and told it was fine . |
| 17 | Pictures of Lorna Lewis picnicking in pedal pushers , marrying in white and christening her baby daughters counterpointed these triumphs , and the couple , who lived their lives from the outside in , saw themselves looking happy in magazines and believed they were happy , although the combination of Hitchcock and post-natal depression persuaded Lorna to announce that she would take a year off to devote herself to her family . |
| 18 | She looked at the clock and noticed it was twenty-past one — everyone was in now except Michael . |
| 19 | He went past the bo , my brother wanted dropped off , it was a one way street he went the way down came back up and parked and by the time he come up and parked it was thirty P extra ! |
| 20 | But the court ruled it was clear that members of Lt Roos 's patrol had beaten members of the public , and added it was astonishing that they had escaped punishment . |
| 21 | Beside the total rewards such men expected and obtained they are minute . |
| 22 | Zacchaeus made a public confession of his past and declared he was ready to make amends . |
| 23 | The count built a wall around the town and reckoned he was secure . |
| 24 | McLeish asked whereabouts and discovered it was three roads away from his own flat , so they complained enjoyably to each other about the local council . |
| 25 | She had a lot of hair , but it was so tangled and matted it was impossible to determine the colour . |
| 26 | I 'm going to sacrifice maybe holidays this year , and maybe have a couple of long weekend breaks , as long as I earn enough to keep my head above water and to pay my way in life for the next twelve months , keep my family fed and watered I 'm Okay , then I 'm going to take stock in twelve months ' time . |
| 27 | Owner-trainer John Hill and three racecourse vets checked the filly over and decided she was fit to run , but Atlantic Way could finish only third . |
| 28 | Violet saw the man 's face harden and decided it was better to give way on this occasion . |
| 29 | The Red Barrell company was losing its own Stag brewery , near Victoria Station , to redevelopment , and decided it was easier to buy another London brewery than build one . |
| 30 | Earlier yesterday Constable Sandra Dougan told Belfast Coroner 's Court Moore was ‘ lying ’ when he had claimed they were lovers and insisted they were just ‘ friends ’ . |