Example sentences of "[vb past] and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos time was going on and I thought well just watch that , I knew you wanted it taped and I thought time were going on |
| 2 | What follows are the most reliable facts which his early biographies ( John Aiken , 1792 and James Baldwin Brown , 1823 ) provided and which have subsequently been checked and accepted , as far as possible , from his own works and from later accounts . |
| 3 | The author recalls an able Treasury minister who , after resignation , became a convinced and cogent parliamentary reformer , explaining that as a minister he had had no time to work out this aspect of policy and therefore , since the Treasury was opposed to more specialist committees of the House of Commons , he used the brief they provided and he had been a formidable opponent of these reforms at the Cabinet Committee level . |
| 4 | I ask that you should pay what I have provided and legated and what I shall provide and legate in codicils . ’ |
| 5 | When a young boy , overcome with curiosity , stepped out and prodded the dog 's mouth with a stick , he was grabbed by the arm and hauled back roughly : and when a dog began idly sniffing the body , someone kicked out and shouted and it lurched away through the crowd . |
| 6 | ‘ Kelly , ’ I shouted and she turned round and shrieked , ‘ Annie , darling ’ , and we tried to fall into each other 's arms . |
| 7 | And it bounced and bounced and bounced and I thought it was going on for ages but it did n't . |
| 8 | ‘ One of these days ’ George promised and they smiled quickly at each other isolating Maxim in a twinge of envy . |
| 9 | ‘ I wo n't , ’ I promised and he went off to find his mates while I made my way home to start the chores . |
| 10 | His mouth gaped and his hands flapped . |
| 11 | Sales plummetted and he was forced to quit . |
| 12 | so those few that entered most of them got prizes and it was three police forces that entered and they all got awards . |
| 13 | Mrs Wilson entered and he rose . |
| 14 | Devraux was staring towards the front flaps as she entered and he froze when he saw her . |
| 15 | But the few houses they passed seemed to have their doors locked and bolted and their windows shuttered . |
| 16 | He had almost decided to turn back , when a growl sounded behind him ; a large mongrel stood there , with its teeth bared and its long ears laid back . |
| 17 | The VW , driven by Wing , overtook and he saw the defendant 's brother , a passenger in the car , gesticulating at him . |
| 18 | I think probably many of you are familiar with the concepts that Phill described and what those concepts what the client server approach has done is to really bring about quite a revolutionary new breed of systems since the term was first coined in fact by in ninety eighty seven . |
| 19 | Although this is an isolated example it is typical of the problems I encountered and which led me to the conclusion that the product simply is n't ready for release into the market in its current form . |
| 20 | We both winced and I went back to some more work on the sulphonamides , and he to dressing his patients . |
| 21 | now this is an old rumour and er , he was an officer , er I think in the RAF and he had erm an accident his plane crashed and he died and this is why she dresses in military uniform all the time sort , you know she went a little bit deranged |
| 22 | The aeroplane crashed and your brother was killed instantly . |
| 23 | This could arise if an aircraft crashed and there was damage to houses in the area . |
| 24 | Now he rose and they faced each other across the table . |
| 25 | She did not reflect that only a few weeks ago she would have thought it impossible that she could have lived the life of a servant , let alone bear eating and drinking in the den in which Rose and her ma lived , but she did know one thing — she would never take her comfortable life for granted again . |
| 26 | We rose and he took me a short distance to Bread Street . |
| 27 | His eyebrows rose and he met her steady gaze with a hint of amusement in his own . |
| 28 | His dark brows rose and his mouth curled cynically . |
| 29 | A few minutes later he rose and I heard him say , ‘ Goodnight and thank you for giving me your interesting reminiscences . ’ |
| 30 | Besides , the sorts of holidays Rose and I usually go on would n't have been up-market enough for George . ’ |