Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [det] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I worked all that day , by the evening I realised that all I 'd produced was about fifteen pages of a rather bad Agatha Christie spoof . |
| 2 | You told me Stevie was coming round once before so I got all these water bombs , water bombs ready for them and they came round they were n't there . |
| 3 | If news wended to Spittals that she had any more interest in the Mills murder she would be suspended immediately . |
| 4 | Erm and I did n't get any indication from the Tory conference , watching it , that er , that they had any more idea . |
| 5 | Well course she can but it seemed a bit strange that he said that this morning . |
| 6 | He simply stood still saying nothing until the cries died away , and then told them what they were waiting for , and that he expected little more fighting . |
| 7 | And Eddie goes , let's use sellotape so he got all this sellotape all over him and he 's like like mummified in sellotape and then they , he goes right , we 're the hard men and we 're really gon na tell him who 's boss so erm and he goes over to him and he goes hello , erm , and he goes what are we going to say ? |
| 8 | and they had all these great pads you know and I had all these maternity pads because I needed them you know I had to pad up and I had to and I felt so embarrassed |
| 9 | ‘ I was half inclined to believe you last night until I received these this morning , ’ he said , and the hidden violence in his voice made her go cold . |
| 10 | That 's OK cos I got another another time wo n't we ? |
| 11 | And you scored all that lot . |
| 12 | Yeah I mean I do n't know if I , I do n't , I 'm not saying I could I 'm just saying I bet if you had all that pressure then you would think of it differently . |
| 13 | ‘ If you needed any more proof , then it was present in Castlerock on Thursday morning . |
| 14 | ‘ If you needed any more proof , then it was present in Castlerock on Thursday morning , ’ he added . |
| 15 | Sorry , I did n't ask if you wanted any more tea . |
| 16 | And we gathered all this information we grouped it into those categories , admission , worship , and such like . |
| 17 | There was less violence , the ‘ appels ’ were not so severe , and we spent much more time in the classroom doing theoretical work for our exams . |
| 18 | Just looked at it , cos we got that this time . |
| 19 | You can imagine what an outcry there 'd be from women if we made some such generalisation about them , but we men are supposed to take this shit . ’ |
| 20 | And they had all that way to travel back … |
| 21 | And they wore that all day all of them all day ? |
| 22 | They were the workers and er they sort of opened their kitchen up , or the back scullery , they went round to the local butcher scrounging and begging meat , to the greengrocers for peas , parsnips , carrots , you name it it all went into this big huge copper , which I 've previously described to you as a washing copper , and they boiled all this soup up and we kids used to take the a jug and er we had to find the biggest jug we could , in the house that we could get , well the biggest jug we ever had was the wash-hand stand that was in the bedroom , that 's the wash-hand stand jug . |
| 23 | The storm lasted for three days , and they stayed all that time with the Darlings in the lighthouse . |
| 24 | If they took all that trouble to send fake bodies back to England and establish the fact that the Bonnards were dead , how could they hope to infiltrate two impostors into the country on their passports ? ’ |
| 25 | And more to the point he did n't disappear on a massive binge , and he gave all that money to his sister . |
| 26 | And it took all this time to get here . |
| 27 | Now I ca n't account for that , because he ought to have strong ones did n't he , if he did all that stuff there ? |
| 28 | I knew players like the incomparable Joe Davis and I doubt if he did any more training than is entailed in going for a long walk . |
| 29 | fourteen or I had a sixteen overhead cam Cortina engine sitting up the blokes just swapped it for a two litre cos he wanted some more go . |
| 30 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |