Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | one of wo one of the worst ones cars ever made I mean they do make rubbish , but that 's one of the worst ones ! |
2 | The Chairman of the County Council has just got food poisoning Where did he pick it up ? |
3 | ‘ But I began this without any hope whatsoever of winning the one thing I wanted above all others because I thought it was already given , and what I took in compensation merely made me want it more and resent its absence , because I kept loving you more and more . |
4 | I think she was glad to confess , and her sister-in-law just said she considered it as much her money as Terry 's . ’ |
5 | This posture always made me suspect him of having a horizontal cleft slicing through his buttocks , betokening a random — but adaptive — mutation , taking humans closer to being office furniture . |
6 | The 119-page report is the result of a 10-month review led by the Press Council 's chairman , Mr Louis Blom-Cooper , who after meeting the full council yesterday said he expected it to take until next summer to reach final agreement on the recommendations . |
7 | Dad took Peter to work today said I thought he was gon na to John when I came home , he took the whole front of |
8 | Grimma once said she thought it was the most astonishing thing in the world . ’ |
9 | The 20th Century Fox logo always made me think we were about to see a war film , as the searchlights that had woken us in London in the blitz always preceded an air-raid . |
10 | Love and nature both advised her to have him without thinking of complications , to delight in passion without considering future pain . |
11 | Music by Scott Joplin then helped him to create his light-heartedly comic Elite Syncopations . |
12 | ‘ Drawing 1-1 up there with a team of kids when you 've been spanked 5-0 four days earlier made them believe they could finish the job at home . ’ |
13 | The 1940s and war made seditious literature a vital concern ; the 1950s and anti-communism made left-wing literature seem so threatening ; the 1960s and permissiveness eventually caused us to think we could go too far with ‘ indecent ’ and ‘ obscene ’ books ; and the 1970s and 1980s and the move towards a more multicultural society and the assertiveness of nationality made us conscious of the damage of racist and religiously intolerant literature . |
14 | ( I hardly expected her to eat it . ) |
15 | And having done so beautifully in the buildup how did he get it so wrong with the shot ? |
16 | Like a third take away a quarter how did you do it ? |
17 | CATHERINE Why did you do it , coming in like that . |
18 | Mellissa never knew what hit her , her circuits melding in the robotic equivalent of a cerebral haemorrhage , the doors to the complex opening as if in welcome . |
19 | ‘ Well , if Mr Boldwood really asked you to marry him , I 'm not going to contradict that , just to please you . ’ |
20 | ‘ If I felt certain , ’ I answered finally , ‘ that God really wanted me to marry you , I would agree ! ’ |
21 | I like the adulation and one woman even asked me to marry her . |
22 | But I personally felt that that was a good tackle on Speedy , Ron how did you see it ? |
23 | Well that 's right , yeah , cos then he asked me ages ago did I think he was being selfish , I said yes |
24 | When Suzie finally emerged she sent him back to bed . |
25 | Harrington and Lewis both said they found it a pleasant change from their usual routine . |
26 | Luke was so infuriatingly indifferent that Maria almost told him to forget it . |
27 | When Nigel was at home , Gina usually made him take them to the Launderette in a black dust bag . |
28 | Its amazing how you , you came down here , but I mean duck never managed it did he ? |
29 | so I got four more , had a look round thought I saw it , but Traygo was heaving I tried to park by the erm garden centre , but to not only were there people all parked there , there was a great articulated lorry delivering stuff , so you went in and you could n't even then get out , go and park further up |
30 | mum why did they take it to pieces ? |