Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] and [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam unlocked the front door and they went inside . |
| 2 | Before lunch Jones made the necessary arrangements and they both glanced at the Sunday newspapers , apparently for the first time . |
| 3 | with a , well they , they made the wooden stick and I got the Pitman 's book and |
| 4 | It was a good case he wanted us to remember that there 's a hunger for the word of God and that what we should be worried about was poverty in the things of the spirit but he made the blank statement and it shocked one young man called John who at the time was the minister of a church extension charge in one of our deprived housing situations . |
| 5 | I remember how calm and serene my father looked as he lay in his coffin and how I seemed to feel something break within me when they lowered the plush-covered lid and we rode behind the hearse to Rosedale Cemetery for the interment . |
| 6 | erm like you we read the first passage and it was kind of what 's what 's all this about if you was n't in the room and you did n't know what was being you have n't got a clue what was going on because it does n't tell you , but the rest of the sections that put down they do give a sort of brief analysis |
| 7 | Larry and the other pocket knife owner became the prime suspects and it got quite ugly with such suggestions as , ‘ why do n't you admit it , you know you did it ’ . |
| 8 | Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head . |
| 9 | Frank became the new chairman and we believe that in due course , it 's gon na generate substantial profits . |
| 10 | This certificate produced the desired effect and I was allowed to stay at home on parade days . |
| 11 | It was conducted in a in a devastating effect because was totally unchecked and America got the upper hand and they simply played the game by their own favour without giving due consideration to humanitarian or , or even the justice er element and this , this is how the world 's gon na be , and America is an arrogant super power . |
| 12 | His breath misted the cold glass and he turned away , indifferent to others ' arguments . |
| 13 | The quality of our people have to be second to none and so our only asset would again be sensible to ensure that the best people , that we recruited the best people and we retained the best people and we wanted to be profitable , wanted to be lean and mean , hungry and er any profitable organisation is going to be a better organisation as a result of improved profitability and we then finally wanted to improve the quality of our image out there in the market place , we were seen and at least that was I think the Department , certainly my perception we were seen er as being a sort of gentle giant out there . |
| 14 | One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ? |
| 15 | He said : ‘ You 'd already said his calls were being made from callboxes , a tap would have been unlikely to trace him unless he repeatedly used the same box and he 's too bright for that . |
| 16 | There had been partisans hidden up there during the war , before you … but now only the shepherds used the long-abandoned houses and they went up on foot with their flocks . |
| 17 | He stopped and drew a long breath and I stared at him and said : ‘ Are you serious ? ’ |
| 18 | We did so , heaving and pushing until the bed moved a few inches and I saw the slight scorch mark on the stone floor beneath . |
| 19 | That created a little space and I just hit the ball . |
| 20 | So , in Madras , he demonstrated an alternative approach and it was rather like watching Norman Tebbit become Mahatma Ghandi . |
| 21 | Meredith recognised the bottom line and she said no more . |
| 22 | As I fell , I dropped the little monster and it escaped . |
| 23 | I told the cleaning ladies and they came up and said , twiddled around with it and said that they could n't work out what was wrong and they were gon na get some engineers in or something , engineers ? |
| 24 | so they , I mean they flogged the cheaper lines and they could have through the door like |
| 25 | Then she was blowing up like a bubble herself and getting fatter and fatter and more and more bulbous till she filled the whole sky and I knew that if she burst the explosion would drown me in mud too , and I could smell the slurry in my nostrils already and it was getting up my nose and I could n't breathe and … |
| 26 | ‘ Away , ’ came the enigmatic reply and I knew I would learn nothing more until I arrived . |
| 27 | A freak wave overturned the flimsy vessels and they were left floating in the water in their lifejackets . |
| 28 | They played the Canadian anthem and we waved our flowers at the crowd . |
| 29 | Soon after this I received a favourable response and I began house-hunting and discussing the details of how to meet my care needs . |
| 30 | In 1963 , in B.R. days , it received a full overhaul and it is believed that a new front tube plate was fitted . |