Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No bus stop or nothing cos I just missed a bus , and he stopped for me . |
| 2 | And it 's obviously that one was n't , just did n't want it or it was dead or something and they just left it . |
| 3 | And eventually they said well the stereotype is basically sort of like the equivalent in litho plate making really said that this was , no of course it is metal , sorry it 's not metal , it is letterpress The Guardian and it is , they make these Nyclopone plates or something and they really wanted to keep it for that reason . |
| 4 | Erm tt I think , oh dear , I saw an advert in the paper I think to , to take out a savings plan or something and I just signed up a , a form and back it came . |
| 5 | So , for example , it may be that a keen walker would have a special interest in a stretch of country where he or she frequently walked which would entitle him or her to challenge a decision to grant planning permission to develop it , whereas an ordinary member of the public or even of some environmental group in a different area might not have . |
| 6 | I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage . |
| 7 | Adèle was hoping Mr Rochester would call her down to meet the guests , but in the end she was so tired with all the excitement that she and I both went to bed early . |
| 8 | ‘ You mean that she and you graciously decided to abstain from your sexual liaison , at least until the honeymoon was over ? ’ |
| 9 | Not that you and I ever worried about the fleshpots anyway , though we 've probably both learned to appreciate them a little more than in the tranquil days before the war … |
| 10 | the inside of the hole is bigger than one that I originally had , with the grip and the bar . |
| 11 | When Victor Paige became the first general manager of the health service he found himself in a very different job from any that he or anyone else had occupied before . |
| 12 | The teenager gets older , encounters some nicer , more controlled , more kindly people than he or she ever found at home — most people behave worst in their own homes — and with any luck comes to understand , yes , there is an aspiration or so floating around out there , and , if he , she , has n't seen too many horror movies , been too beaten up in body and mind , regains a little faith in a world at least potentially redeemable . |
| 13 | Still fully clothed , he stretched out beside her and drew her close , fitting her soft body to his hard one , making her ache for the complete union , where two separate entities merged into one and nothing and nobody else existed . |
| 14 | On Monday we was in Camden and me and someone else did some prick over we smash his face in and cut him up . |
| 15 | The night was still but a mist was descending slowly ; he stood looking towards platforms 2 and I when he suddenly heard footsteps on the ballast approaching him . |
| 16 | With me it would if I if I even had one drink going on stage , I 'd be terrified . |
| 17 | Nigel was in Japan for a conference , and she and I both needed a bit of company . |
| 18 | out for me and erm , when he went in on Monday , erm it was the other one the lad that actually owns it , so I was in there for about bloody half an hour and we came home with some samples and one that I quite liked it was up on the wall and he said that is my best selling Axminster that I had , and it was like , it was maybe it was a bit too busy , it was , it was greyey and it was all different other colours in it , but it was a lot of flowers on it , it was n't a traditional Axminster you see Mike loves these traditional Axminsters and he does n't really , he wo n't really entertain anything else , erm , anyway I brought that sample home and what else ? |
| 19 | When Julius lost his temper , it was a fairly awesome sight — and one that she definitely did n't want to witness right at this moment ! |
| 20 | But the difference is that for him , advertising was simply a means to an end — part of his overall game-plan , and one that he always planned to abandon by his thirty-fifth birthday . |
| 21 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 22 | You remind me of bit , eh , you 're like a bit what Joanne 's like , except Joanne 's better at maths but she 's not very good at English , like when they were doing Animal Farm , I had to explain that it was a parody of the Russian revolution and everything and she just sat there with her mouth open . |
| 23 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 24 | ‘ All we do know , ’ he concluded , ‘ is that the assassin must have been a member of the community at the Tower who knew Sir Ralph had changed his bed chamber , and he or she either committed the murder or hired a professional assassin to do it for them . ’ |
| 25 | And it and it actually cleared up , got better while I were on holiday . |
| 26 | And what if he never discovered for certain who had sent that letter ? |
| 27 | I really thought I was not only his girlfriend but someone that he really trusted because he knew I was energetic and dynamic and could get things done . ’ |
| 28 | That 's one of but we but we never did , we all went down , and sometimes we did and sometimes we did n't Part of er , was on about , is that in ninety-five , ninety-six highways by four million quid . |
| 29 | He discovered in the weeks and months that passed a real passion ; a task that was not only deeply therapeutic , but one that he also found he could do rather well . |
| 30 | But what if it never did ? |