Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided I did n't want a toffee-apple any more , even though I 'd seen one with a great wedge of toffee stuck to the bottom , so I pretended I 'd seen Marie passing in front of the window and I ran out and shouted , " Wait on , Marie , I 've an important message for you . " |
| 2 | There could n't be anything wrong with my chest unless I 'd swallowed something as a child , an old thrupenny bit . |
| 3 | On each trip I overheard snatches of the bar-room conversations and could hear the louder buzz of continuing upheaval along in the lounge , and I thought that after I 'd satisfied everyone in the dining room I might drift along to the far end with my disarming little tray . |
| 4 | My God , for 15 years I 'd written nothing but a few songs . ’ |
| 5 | By my reckoning , if I 'd steered anything like a true course , the Land Rover was way along the road to the right , but it was pointless and impossible to reach it . |
| 6 | I had become something of an expert in the leisure market , and to many of the institutional buyers had some spurious extra authority simply because I could hit a golf ball further and straighter than they could . |
| 7 | I had heard nothing but the wind , seen nothing but the moving trees but , I thought incredulously , someone had shot me . |
| 8 | However , within minutes of starting the meeting ( or so it seemed ) I had invited someone with a severe pain in the head to come forward . |
| 9 | I looked up , startled to find how I had forgotten everything but the antics of these two monstrous beings . |
| 10 | I had learned something about the protest vote . |
| 11 | As a result I knew that I had recovered everything within the detecting capabilities of my old machine and did not expect that there would be anything left to be found . |
| 12 | I said that I had been in the British Army which prompted another Englishman called Chris to ask if I had known anybody in the Royal Signals in Aldershot or Catterick . |
| 13 | He then provided : ‘ I wish whatever legacies I have left to be paid by you , my dear son , and if any debt shall emerge , if I had borrowed anything for a time and shall owe it , I wish it to be paid by you , so that what I have left your sister may pass to her undiminished . ’ |
| 14 | Once a femur or a forearm would have played a pure note if you 'd used one for a pipe , but the pieces would whistle harsh and offkey now from the holes bored into them by the efficient mandibles of her companions in the vertical grave , the cenote where they placed her after the battle , during the truce . |
| 15 | Morse seemed to think you 'd found something in the safe which Matthew regarded as a negotiable asset . ’ |
| 16 | But there was some trouble with her in her early teens and perhaps she 'd guessed something of the truth . |
| 17 | ‘ Nothing — I asked if he knew if she 'd seen anyone in the hospital recently , before we contacted Records . |
| 18 | had a girl from another troop Lynn somebody ca n't remember her last name any way her first name was Lynn and as rumour had it , she 'd had everybody in the bedroom |
| 19 | She was in a fairly emotional state , in that she 'd known nothing about the wedding , wondered why she had n't been told , and demanded the time and location of the ceremony . |
| 20 | Sarah told Maureen that she had received one by the same post . |
| 21 | Since she 'd started work she had seen nothing of the surrounding area , except that covered by the bus route which took her to work and back each day . |
| 22 | The first time out she had seen nothing but a sea of faces , so hard had she been concentrating on what she was doing . |
| 23 | So far she had seen nothing but a normal barn — bales of hay , racks of apples , a few garden tools — but now she found herself forced into the other side of the top floor and it was certainly different , so different in fact that as Alain released her she walked forward of her own volition . |
| 24 | She had cared nothing for the man who was attacking her then ; her despair now was because she could not bear the caresses of the man whom she loved , and she knew loved her . |
| 25 | Helen had confessed at lunch that she would sooner have been three behind than three in front — and when news came , after the first 10 holes of the fourth round , that she had fallen one to the rear of the Australian , one had the feeling that she was merely paving the way for a last-minute attack . |
| 26 | And if she had heard nothing of the gossip about his private life before she accepted him , certain ladies he had discarded , both married and single , took care that she overheard quite a lot now . |
| 27 | She had heard nothing on the radio . |
| 28 | She had denied anything of the kind to the police but it was real enough . |
| 29 | ‘ Penny for them , ’ said Adam , when they were halfway through the meal and she had said nothing for a while . |
| 30 | But in her mother 's kiss she had learned something of the importance of whatever it was that Rachel had to do . |