Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [coord] [pers pn] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an actual roar he let out and it was mingled with Jessie 's scream as he tore her from the shelter of the coalhouses and the young man 's arms . |
| 2 | Cos when he had that first kid , you know , when he moved here and I were asking be nice if you 'd had a a girl . |
| 3 | She was standing in front of him and when , conventionally , she held out her hand towards him , saying , ‘ Goodbye , then , ’ he hesitated for a moment ; then his arm jerked forward and he was holding her hand . |
| 4 | During the summer months climbing charges rose considerably and it was rumoured that climbing access would be curtailed , due , in part , to malicious damage to gates and fencing ( although there was no proof that this was done by climbers ) . |
| 5 | I 've seen th this fella came down and he was selling pianos and er he went down this particular terrace and he must have sold seven , eight , or nine or ten on , on both sides . |
| 6 | It 's going shh , like this , and it 's exactly what I did , and my sister came in and she 's going , what 're you doing ? |
| 7 | And she came in and she was telling us all about it , and another woman who was there , she was the one who , she went over and sat beside here and said , Oh never mind and , You know we we we 'll get it sorted out , and , You 're better off without him . |
| 8 | Dad came in and I was struck by how handsome he seemed with his moustache freshly waxed and his hair brushed flat and parted in the middle . |
| 9 | One day an elderly lady with a hearing aid came in and I was doing her hair , chatting away and making her laugh , and I cut right through the wire ! |
| 10 | Wainfleet had put on his most triumphant expression as Marshall and Wickham strolled in and it was deflating to realize it was wasted . |
| 11 | It was n't until the ninth week that orders finally came through and they were called back to the man-made square . |
| 12 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 13 | You know , she came home and she was watching television and I bought some Bourbon biscuits round and then I thought I 'll have one with my cup of tea and now there 's three left ! |
| 14 | One day I came home and she was packing . |
| 15 | Yes they woke up and they 're carving them and cutting away , but could n't say anything . |
| 16 | I had an awful dream today , I dreamt my nan , and I woke up and I 'm crying . |
| 17 | I dreamt about my nan and I woke up and I was crying . |
| 18 | I woke up and I was aching . |
| 19 | ‘ I woke up and you were gone ; why did you leave ? ’ |
| 20 | The South Metropolitan Company 's turn came later and it was transferred with effect from 14 June 1913 . |
| 21 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 22 | so they did n't come , and I did n't go out and Gemma came up and I was sitting there talking and they had a drop , drop of wine and I had one with erm and Gemma finished her biscuits up , we 've got to get some more biscuits now Gemma brings her |
| 23 | She offered a covenant to the Church if I came back or you were Confirmed in Faith . |
| 24 | And then when she came back and I was returned she actually went into a factory then . |
| 25 | she took an overdose and erm never came out and she was crying her eyes out |
| 26 | she took an overdose and erm never came out and she was crying her eyes out |
| 27 | He hung on until I came out and I was given embarkation leave or demob leave rather and I did n't even have a chance to have that , they wanted me down there so quickly , I think I came out of the forces one week and I was working down there the following week because was way past his retiring age . |
| 28 | I went back into the pub : came out and it was finished , and I brought it home . ’ |
| 29 | He was in a position to control the way the work came out and he was going to exercise it . |
| 30 | Of course they never came out and he was left with three digital watches which , in the cold light of day , turned out to be worth approximately 99p each retail , 30p wholesale . |