Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The Secretary of State for Scotland will recall that , when my colleagues and I met him and the Secretary of State for the Environment during the consultation period on local government funding , we argued our case on local income tax and pursued the issue of costing . |
2 | Erm that we had no alternative to do what we did er that C I D officers would speak to him and I believe that he would better understand er wh why we have done what we did er and I assured him that the damage to his door will would be repaired . |
3 | I walked back from the Meeting with Quintin who knew by then that he was Macmillan 's selection , and I told him that the idea had my support . |
4 | dropped Asdir off and she drove away and I saw her and the four children go , along to the house |
5 | I recently met the Japanese Keidanren when they visited this country , and I reassured them that the Government continue to welcome and support Japanese investment in this country . |
6 | I met the key officials from the Department of the Environment earlier this week and who told me that the Government is preparing to circulate a consultation paper on the National Sustainability Plan in mid June . |
7 | There was the man who had trained his dog to bite Arabs , and who informed us that a dog always knows an Arab by his stink . |
8 | Joe had several long conversations with Maureen and she told him that the war had brought happiness to her and Chris . |
9 | Ive checked with my other half and she assured me that the info she passed on was from Sky and not made up ! |
10 | We had booked up for the ordinary ship and , and rail you know , to go over by ship and rail but er during the months awaiting the , I think we were going in July and er we had booked up maybe about April , but they had put these planes on and Polytechnic wrote to us and said , if we paid two pounds ten extra , we could go by air and we did it and the full tour for a week in Paris , going by air , was twelve pounds ten . |
11 | ‘ I have to find the money myself and they told me that the wackier the ideas , the better the response so I am hoping that my ideas come off . ’ |
12 | That was Henry VIII and he wrote it because the King 's daughter , Princess Elizabeth , was getting married . |
13 | My father had been apprenticed to Mr. Cooper and he told me that the trucks had been made when trade was slack . |
14 | For instance , we were talking about the cinema , and he told me that the average Hollywood film reaches a larger public than the Holy Scriptures . |
15 | Joe met a man he had sailed with , and he told him that a ship had already been sunk by a submarine . |
16 | Well I had Mrs in this morning she had a tooth out this morning and he broke it and he tried to get the rest out you know using a special instrument and he twisted it and a fragment of the tooth come off and hit me straight in the eye . |
17 | We told Jean Paul that the cut-off jeans held together with masking tape and ground-in dirt were a bit trop , and he assured us that the too-small cycling caps would look genuinely ridiculous when they were made up . |
18 | And he reported it and the put on a double watch that night . |
19 | Once , years before , she 'd visited her friend Julie in a psychiatric unit and it struck her that a lot of the people wanted to be there . |
20 | And now he was passing a second and more dilapidated pillbox and it struck him that the whole headland had the desolate look of an old battlefield , the corpses long since carted away but the air vibrating still with the gunfire of long-lost battles , while the power station loomed over it like a grandiose modern monument to the unknown dead . |
21 | So Mr talked in the debate about internal reorganisation about continuing to provide services for which there is an over provision and it berated me and the Labour group for that . |
22 | This was a parting gift but I dropped mine and the bloody dogs were on it in a flash , whilst Benjamin , kind as ever , gave his to the page who served us . |
23 | She was beginning to feel hunted , but something told her that the only defence against a man like Luke was attack . |
24 | Akinwande 's manager , Mickey Duff , offered Schulz 's handlers £75,000 to come to London but they rejected it and the rematch is destined to go to the highest bidder . |
25 | He was offered a knighthood in 1847 when Queen Victoria visited Cambridge , but he declined it and the honour which came to him was accompanied by little emolument . |
26 | It belonged to my grandfather , but he lost it when the Creditanstalt crashed in the twenties . |