Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home … |
| 2 | That would drive him to madness , to the place they most wanted him , the place in which it would be even more difficult to find the Key ; an institution , a hospital where they filled you up with all sorts of disgusting drugs and deliberately kept you as stupid as the rest . |
| 3 | He took her by back streets to Golden Lane , where he handed her over to Noakes , the mortuary attendant . |
| 4 | Disconnect the mains lead to your PC and plug it into the Expert ; there are two sockets for power leads leaving the UPS , so I checked it out with two PCs . |
| 5 | But dear Caroline 's got an almighty hangover , sick as a dog , so I brought him over on the back of the bike to see it again . |
| 6 | So I thought , ‘ Ah , I 'll just write it anyway , ’ so I made it up from beginning to end . |
| 7 | Rex and Harpo/Chico were all nuzzled up in the land of nod , so I took myself over to the window to watch the sun rise over Presley City . |
| 8 | When I wrote it in 1971 there was a postal strike , so I took it up to the BBC personally . |
| 9 | I assumed something was wrong with the unit , so I took it back from where I bought it and got another one . |
| 10 | I looked at my clock to find that it was nine thirty so I dragged myself out of bed and put on my dressing gown . |
| 11 | It was not too big or cumbersome to take away so I packed it up in my stout old haversack and stepping out of the ruins of the boilerhouse , returned to the shed . |
| 12 | So if our mum had cut it up into twelve pieces and then only three people wanted pizza so she cut it up into twelve twelfths and then said who wants pizza and only three people wanted pizza she 'd now have to put some of these twelfths back together again then and just three of us how many twelfths would we get ? |
| 13 | Only those thoughts were too uncomfortable to contemplate so she pushed them back into her mind . |
| 14 | Even so she found it impossible to keep her mind properly on her own problems when he continued to look at her like that , so she picked him up on one niggling point that continued to irritate her . |
| 15 | They were not yet dry but she had no others apart from her best ones , so she pulled them on over the warm , dry woollen stockings into which she had changed upon coming in from the buildings . |
| 16 | Yes , so you divided it up like that |
| 17 | ‘ So you dragged me off to Ghar Hasan … ? ’ she whispered shakily . |
| 18 | ‘ So you pushed her out of the car and gave the whole game away ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ So you found yourself out of work . |
| 20 | ‘ Although we accepted it back in 1931 , it would be a shock if it was seen today , ’ said Kerr . |
| 21 | She looked alert and approachable , just the type of person we were looking for , so we asked her in for an interview . ’ |
| 22 | So it meant every quarter of an hour you were asking a man to record his numbers , so we boiled it down to termini . |
| 23 | We decided it was time to do something about that , so we took him along to the vet . |
| 24 | It was pouring with rain , so we dolled ourselves up in wet-weather gear and swayed like Michelin men back down the lakeside path nicknamed by Stuart the Yellow Brick Road . |
| 25 | We wanted to check the accuracy of an intelligence test for horses , so we tried it out on six horses of known intelligence : three stallions and three mares . |
| 26 | she says er I 'm er guaranteed , she says oh no you 're not , she says Ruth 's told me last week to take you off guarantee , so they took her off like |
| 27 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 28 | Marks said : ‘ So they made you up to DI . ’ |
| 29 | By the time they reached a point half-way to the island the water had reached their hips so they gave it up as a bad job and began to enjoy themselves . |
| 30 | But the others did n't want an entirely new hand on the helm , so they gave it back to Poher . |