Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | M. Perhaps I 've seen her . |
| 2 | the keys with her and take the er , plug off the telly so we 've got nothing to occupy us ! |
| 3 | A four-tracker , starting with the nervous , swirly title tune that drops from my mind instantly I 've heard it . |
| 4 | Well , he said he was a writer , and I said I was looking for plays to invest in and why did n't he write one about his friend , and a couple of months later he 'd written something pretty splendid , had n't he ? |
| 5 | When you 've got it to the final fold there you 've got your ordinary |
| 6 | said , if I ca n't come for that typewriter then I 've sold it , he said I , I told her if she wanted it she 'd got to come and collect it and he said and nobody asked for it , I said well I know |
| 7 | She was his enemy yet he had helped her . |
| 8 | And no , they had not been expecting to see her that weekend , though with Giles away she had said she might come on the Sunday . |
| 9 | She gave a husky exhalation of breath , and a second later he had bent his head to press his hot mouth against the swell of her breasts . |
| 10 | A second later he had levered himself up off the bed , striding away to answer the call . |
| 11 | I 've had enough work today I 've worked my nuts |
| 12 | And that 's where you start to get your problems irrespective of whether your appliances are correctly fused you must make sure they are correctly fused but you must not exceed the thirteen amp otherwise you 've had it . |
| 13 | He had thought that that would be the last he would hear of her , but a few days later she had sent him her first piece , and he had been so impressed by it that he had printed it and asked her to write more for him . |
| 14 | Four weeks later she had seen him in the cinema queue with another girl , and had perceived that her day was over ; in between , she had known disorientation and obsession , diagnosed her trouble , and felt exhilarated . |
| 15 | Two years later you 've lost it . |
| 16 | And then the next time , a few years later he 'd got it back |
| 17 | She was twelve years younger than my father , and for years now I had called her Margaret , but until that moment I had always thought of her as firmly fixed in the older generation . |
| 18 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am well aware of the fact that for some years now you have cut yourself off from your past and not deigned to reply to the letters of your friends , or even to return their calls , taking refuge in your answering machine and pretending not to be in when they rang at the bell . |
| 19 | She would miss the two dogs now she had returned them to their home . |
| 20 | Non-existent until about I should n't think there was an a bus did come to the bottom of Road , I ca n't remember what was , it must have been about nineteen twenty I suppose something like that , it used to go to the bottom of Road and turn round there , but I never er my mother always used to say you 'd ruin the trade , the trade down well I do n't believe it did really er now I think the lack of transport now you 've hit something there , lack of transport there encouraged people to shop in Green rather to go down the town cos you could get anything off Green you know , you just think you 'd ju you , you smiled about the er butcher 's shops , the grocer 's shops , the cake shops , you could get the gents , you could get anything on Green the ironmonger shop , you need n't go anywhere else but , when they started transport er yes I think the buses had quite a bit gradually cos things that , you do n't think get things happening in this country overnight I mean , they grow on you do n't they ? |
| 21 | And very soon they were , he said a moment ago they had taken it from Jesus , they were no longer trusting in him , and they started to trust in themselves in their own ability . |
| 22 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 23 | Three days ago she had refused her final chance of giving it for love . |
| 24 | Two weeks ago she had finished her internship at St Paul 's Hospital in Vancouver . |
| 25 | At the Harris , Harris and Overdene Christmas party three years ago he had made what some considered to be the funniest impromptu speech anyone had ever heard inside the office . |
| 26 | A few weeks earlier he had phoned me out of the blue — I think he was checking to see how many of his cronies were still alive ! |
| 27 | Ten years previously he had bound her husband over to good behaviour and to appear at the next sessions . |
| 28 | Erm at the moment okay I 've sold my my last car recently erm I am looking for another . |
| 29 | When I came back to him five minutes later he 'd written his first two lines . |
| 30 | Five minutes later she had conquered her nerves and made two concrete decisions . |