Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the chip shop we bought some fish out the fryer and put in the top and straight away got them bloody tongs picked it up and poured the bloody grease off it and put it in the bloody bag thought it was terrible . |
| 2 | Joyriders ripped them off and threw them from the window as they sped through the Blackbird Leys estate to the Oxford Speedway Stadium . |
| 3 | His sentence was terminated when Sahara officials bailed him out and said they would pick up the tab for the room but he would have to pay for his food and drink himself . |
| 4 | Soon she realised that he was singing her praises to his friends , because other similar garden owners rang her up and asked her if she could do a few hours for them too . |
| 5 | One of the respondents turned it over and read it and said oh well you could put that in the wine shop . |
| 6 | It started as a movement , that is again the critics that is that again the critics picked it up and made something of it worth discussing in the mid-sixties . |
| 7 | Strong hands turned him round and helped him out into the street again . |
| 8 | ( When a visiting paramedic distributed free condoms , the children blew them up and played with them like balloons . |
| 9 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 10 | A two-year-old motor-cruiser with a litre of two-year-old diesel in its tanks used it up while trying to separate the crashed boats , and so joined them . |
| 11 | She was given a parasol against the sun and when she had been shown how to recline in the litter , six dark-faced bearers lifted her up and began trotting barefoot through the city with guards running before and behind . |
| 12 | A great-grandmother has lost her life savings after masked robbers tied her up and ransacked her home . |
| 13 | While I ca n't say I actually enjoyed the experience — as usual , two shirts flaked me out and put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day — I did find the whole process a whole lot easier on the nerves than throwing a glass of water across a shirt in the hope that somehow the creases , along with the water , would eventually evaporate . |