Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [vb past] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But the boss used to give me some right stick and told me I was no good to him lying in bed or on the treatment table . |
| 2 | ‘ But the boss used to give me some right stick and told me I was no good to him lying in bed or on the treatment table . |
| 3 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 4 | A THEATRICAL lady doctor tripped up to me at a party in Covent Garden this week and told me she had phoned a film producer friend and asked how he was . |
| 5 | With a firm grip on my hand , she pulled me away from a display of hi-tech gadgets and told me I was not going to be a millionairess . |
| 6 | The students were being fed contradictory messages and did what they could to lead their lives in the best way possible , given deteriorating conditions and mounting ideological and political debates . |
| 7 | There was a power in him , a suppressed vigour that made everything he did one hundred per cent positive . |
| 8 | They gave us six piasters and told us it was advance pay for work on a rubber plantation not far away . |
| 9 | In the aft compartment they went through the routine exercise of listening to the remaining six missiles and found what they had expected , nothing . |
| 10 | I never witnessed a serious quarrel or observed anyone I would describe as angry . |
| 11 | We visited the kitchen , were lectured to diet , closed our eyes and expressed ourselves to ethnic music and discussed who we were . |
| 12 | Baffled , he scratched his greasy white hair and wondered what it could be and why it should have been stored in a beer keg . |
| 13 | Stephen looked at the insipid light-beige stain and said what he thought . |
| 14 | But from the soft laugh that followed her she had the ominous feeling that he was no more convinced by her protests than she was herself . |
| 15 | It was only the light from their own carriage lamps falling on the neglected driveway that told her they were approaching the house , and the salt smell that got stronger and stronger and seeped through the closed windows of the carriage . |
| 16 | He enthused : ‘ We gave a very disciplined display and did what we set out to do — win convincingly . ’ |
| 17 | He enthused : ‘ We gave a very disciplined display and did what we set out to do , win convincingly . |
| 18 | On his return , he had given her a gold-coloured owl and told her he was in love with her . |
| 19 | The Editor was in a very reasonable mood and asked what I could suggest . |
| 20 | It was a ludicrous remark and deserved what it got . |
| 21 | A woman knelt down next to one of the stricken and bleeding girls and told her she got what she deserved ; another tried to prevent first-aid being given to the policeman and taunted his suffering . |
| 22 | Beneath the fabric of his borrowed shirt , her fingers trapped and twisted his skin in a burning pinch that told him she intended to deal with him later . |
| 23 | We have considered alternative definitions of a legal problem and indicated what we consider to be the best working definition to adopt , but this discussion will remain largely academic ( save in estimating the extent of unmet legal need ) unless there is some effective way of ensuring that those who have legal problems , however defined , secure legal assistance . |
| 24 | Susan bent forward slightly for a better view and saw what it was . |
| 25 | How the poor fellow finally got his report together I do not know but I doubt that even he did n't realise that he was dealing with a supernatural force that did what it liked when it liked . |
| 26 | And his mother gave me an apologetic smile and said something I did n't catch as she hurried after husband and son . |
| 27 | He smiled again , a sad , lonely smile that told her he was still not hers . |
| 28 | Abbey National considered using IV , but decided to move to compact discs : ‘ The problem was that we could n't find an IV system that did everything we wanted , ’ explains Julian Wakeley , manager for distance learning at Abbey National , ‘ also , we did n't need full motion video . ’ |
| 29 | " I sorry , " he said once again , in a hopeless voice that told me I had n't convinced him . |
| 30 | I wish I 'd not had to lie to my poor Norman , but he did n't question my story about a long-lost godchild and assured me he had no need of my money . |