Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander .
2 we went in the bank and I won a house on the bingo , you could of cracked me Julie said if we win we 'll go halfs I said right you are so we said right that was fine , there was four of the bleeding winners one pound fifty I ended up with
3 I knew Granpa wanted me to stay on at school and improve my readin' and writin' , but on the last Friday of term in December 1913 I walked out of the gates of Jubilee Street Elementary , with my father 's blessing .
4 The PFLP-GC was allegedly linked to the bombing of the Pan American Boeing 747 which crashed on to Lockerbie , Scotland , on Dec. 21 , 1988 , killing 270 people [ see pp 36409-10 ] .
5 In January 1982 he came back to Stockport to speak of his mountaineering experiences ; so many wanted to hear him that the venue had to be changed from School to the Town Hall .
6 Soon there was another baby on the way , and one evening in February 1585 I hurried round to Henley Street to hear the news .
7 In 1669 he was first approached by the French statesman J. B. Colbert , and in December 1682 he set out for France , having been commissioned by Colbert to plan and construct the fountains at Versailles .
8 That mathematicians had a very very hard time and they got a lot of things wrong they went off down the wrong track for hundreds of years before
9 As L & Y shed No. 17 it housed up to 40 locomotives including LYR 4-4-0s , 2-4-2 tanks , 2-6-2 tanks and Dreadnought 4-6-0s for working the passenger traffic to Preston Manchester and Liverpool .
10 Then he was dropped five games later and it became obvious to all that the goalkeeping hero of the finest days the club had ever known could not be long in going — and on 16 October 1973 he moved over to Orient for a £30,000 fee .
11 When on 24 August 1921 she broke up over the Humber on a final exercise in sharp turns , Maitland , on board but not in command , died with forty-two others .
12 Back in Flat 3 I changed out of my Court Appearance gear and into civilian clothes .
13 In August 1856 he moved on to Paris , engaging in independent research in the laboratory of Charles-Adolphe Wurtz , then one of the few first-rate chemical laboratories outside Germany .
14 The DS 19 which came out in 1956 , with its self-levelling suspension and power-assisted controls , was n't substantially different from the last one made in 1975 , which was then still reckoned to be crankily experimental .
15 Steve succeeded John Sewell as Palace 's captain , but in September 1971 he moved over to Chelsea for a fee quoted as £170,000 , as Bert Head sought funds to reshape his squad for 1st Division survival .
16 In Italy his partner was the surrogate Scot , Joe Baker ; at Manchester United he teamed up in a devastating triumvirate with George Best and Pat Crerand , and at international matches he was part of a group of wayward senior players including Billy Bremner and Jimmy Johnstone .
17 Hand outstretched she came up to where I was sitting .
18 On 21 April 1982 he set off from Calcutta with a ticket , one dollar and a bicycle .
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