Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tight denims clung to her legs and she wore knee-length leather boots . |
| 2 | In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being . |
| 3 | In the election of October 1974 , 25 per cent of the vote went to third-party candidates and they secured thirty-nine seats in the Commons . |
| 4 | And erm we went on an elephant on a safari and we looked for erm wild animals and we saw some rhinos , and that was quite good fun . |
| 5 | But I always wonder , as if a film had been taken from my eyes and I saw new worlds . ’ |
| 6 | No , I mean , today okay only one goal against Charlton , tremendous performance by Bolder , the post and the bar , but Oxford United do score goals and they took great chances to score goals erm it 's difficult today is n't it . |
| 7 | We had the American band , we had the horse guards from London we brought them all up on the train , the horses and the guards and we had wonderful times ! |
| 8 | The point of the story is that when I was using softer rods and he favoured stiffer ones we both caught , relatively speaking , no fewer fish than we do today . |
| 9 | We had enough , we had a roof over our heads and we had enough food and things like that , but nothing for luxuries or little extras . |
| 10 | ‘ Supposing he had to plough a field of thirteen acres and he had eight plough-teams working . |
| 11 | With the house came two hundred acres and he added more land later , planting woods which were bequeathed to the nation , with the house . |
| 12 | Alec himself was always interested in our ideas and in the development of art in the schools and he had considerable skill in persuading the Education Committee to agree to many of our plans which today would doubtless be rejected as not being cost effective or economically viable . |
| 13 | hell of a squeak of brakes and they had two vans and as you used to turn the corner by Swatons , the bollards are out |
| 14 | ‘ It only came a couple of inches over the white line , he hit the brakes and it shot one way and then the other , ’ he said . |
| 15 | As a result his writing becomes less concerned with immediate political concerns and he had more time for reading and research . |
| 16 | He enjoyed the company of his grandchildren and we had several family gatherings . |
| 17 | Prop Dean Sampson scored first for the visitors after three minutes and they took complete command when centre Tony Smith struck twice to make it 18–0 . |
| 18 | In consequence they had more free time for family and social activities and they found less problems in transferring the farm from father to son because the son could continue his own employment and live in his own house . |
| 19 | ( Crawford 's ultimate suspension from school came two weeks before he was due to take his leaving exams and he gained two CSEs by taking them in the hostel he was staying at . ) |
| 20 | He was walking in the woods and he saw three men . |
| 21 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 22 | was the defendants solicitors , the parties during nineteen ninety one , the two solicitors , had dealt with the question of costs and er perfectly normal way , the plaintiffs have their costs , drafted by er cost draughtsman , I understand that in-house draughtsman and erm they produced to Mr a bill for costs , er Mr looked at the bill and met counter proposals and he suggested other figures , erm , figures in the region of forty two thousand pounds , forty seven and fifty thousand pounds for the plaintiffs costs , the correspondence indicates that Mr then , now put forward what with respect seems to be entirely sensible suggestion that er really it would not be sensible to proceed with having the cost taxed , he said he did n't foresee any real difficulty in getting them to agree the costs and that er the common sense thing in the interest of all parties was to see if they could reach an overall , settlement er determining all the matters in dispute , effectively this would be what was to be done in respect of the surgery premises , there was I think , there is reference in accounted to another sec another premises as well which apparently were lease , er but are now formed part of the negotiations and er negotiations continued between the parties during nineteen ninety two , by the end of nineteen ninety two the negotiations were beginning to run into difficulties , the plaintiffs were beginning to put forward non negotiable final offers and er the result unfortunately was that in apparently nineteen ninety three the er negotiations into that broke down . |
| 23 | " Now El-ahrairah was among the animals in those days and he had many wives . |
| 24 | The party addressed much of its effort to workers and it enrolled few peasant members , yet the peasant question was central to its programme and during the revolution of 1905 it exerted considerable influence in the All-Russian Peasants ' Union . |
| 25 | He started to have fits and he suffered permanent damage . |
| 26 | Then there was a little conservatory ; but those plants I was supposed to leave for Leo , because they were Dorothy 's special plants and he had special directions . |
| 27 | Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds |
| 28 | In actual fact your Pete and Margaret have moved more , in the twelve years that they were married , I know they 've been married longer now , but when , th they been married twelve years and they moved four times , |
| 29 | As Windows sorts out the ( hardware ) men from the boys , there 's a large section of the book dedicated to exploiting your disc drives , keyboards , mice and pointing devices , modems , networks , printers and video boards and monitors and I found that section particularly impressive . |
| 30 | We were told that this money was being collected for the families and we gave this money through the official trade union for that purpose . |