Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 There was a spring in my step and when Craig Brewster played a nice through ball into the box , my old legs managed to carry me there and I got a second goal that I did n't expect . ’
2 I do n't know what the drink was — brandy or whisky — I had that much , I had it twice , so that the lads had to see me home because I was more or less drunk .
3 Absentees and truants welcomed quietly back to school and efforts made to re-integrate them socially and academically .
4 This method was considered so cost-effective that some firms continued to employ it even when machine printing offered an alternative way of evading skilled men 's wages .
5 Such persons tended to see it simply as a question of money compensation for the injuries which had been inflicted in the shooting .
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