Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I got another when it come to nineteen eighteen we got bombed out again . |
| 2 | R.B. Yes , another teacher mentioned this when I talked to her and I was saying that it seemed to me that it was a blind spot . |
| 3 | ‘ I found more than we bargained for — including that policewoman Hampton . ’ |
| 4 | and they got chaff from the farms you see , they were sent down before the fishing and they filled that and they lay on that . |
| 5 | A RAID on a Post Office turned into a ‘ Whitehall farce ’ when the robbers got more than they bargained for . |
| 6 | The American , or English , renegade in command , Stephen Manhant , got more than he bargained for . |
| 7 | CAMERAMAN Sean Colborn got more than he bargained for at a police auction — he bought a do-it-yourself BURGLARY kit . |
| 8 | He got more than he bargained for . ’ |
| 9 | Mick Papp got more than he bargained for when he stopped at Strathford 's garage in East Kilbride a few weeks ago . |
| 10 | ( But see Murphy v Culhane [ 1977 ] QB 94 for a case involving a criminal affray where the plaintiff got more than he bargained for and it was stated that the defence could apply . ) |
| 11 | One of them grabbed his pension book ; but the mugger got more than he bargained for , as Mr Cox tripped him up with his walking stick . |
| 12 | Professor Richard Titmuss rather implied this when he wrote in his Essays on the Welfare State that : |
| 13 | Based on the teaching of Jesus about confessing faults one to the other , each brother chose another and they confessed to and directed each other . |
| 14 | Stevenson knew this when he spoke of the ‘ subarctic sunsets , with the profile of the city stamped in indigo upon a sky of luminous green ’ . |
| 15 | Thus , while at the peak of his long and difficult reign , and while engaged upon an ideal cause that represented all that he stood for in terms of imperial and religious aims , Frederick Barbarossa probably died from what we would now recognise as a massive heart failure . |
| 16 | She loved this man and she knew more than he did at the moment . |
| 17 | By the time my father could sit down with me in a pub , slightly drunk , tell me and my friends about Real Life , crack a joke about a Pakistani that silenced a whole table once , and talk about the farm labourer 's — his grandfather 's — journey up from Eye in Suffolk working on the building of the Great North Western Railway to Rawtenstall on the Lancashire-Yorkshire border , I was doing history at Sussex , and knew more than he did about the date and timing of journeys like that . |
| 18 | Fleischmann certainly was concerned about the momentum of events ; the news from Harwell magnified this and he expressed to some colleagues his nervousness and wish that the press conference could be stopped . |
| 19 | And er , and that was , er go and did this before I went to school . |
| 20 | ‘ We discussed this before he ran for office , ’ said five-times-wed Virginia Kelley , 69 , at her home in Hot Springs , Arkansas . |
| 21 | I bought all that I needed for a laboratory , and sent everything to Scotland . |
| 22 | I bought those when we went to football ! |
| 23 | I started on farm work and then er we left that and we started with the County Council . |
| 24 | By the the I served five year then and I left that and I went into corporation transport which was tramcars then . |
| 25 | He had a nice red car and he had this and he looked like a singer , like er , you know the kind of things that I like , right , women that look , they dress nicer , like . |
| 26 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |
| 27 | ‘ I said more than I meant to , ’ he said . |
| 28 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
| 29 | Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow . |
| 30 | I missed this when I came to your house , ’ Maggie said quietly . |