Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did have a sister but he thought that , poor though his family was , it would not be very keen on her marrying a beggar . |
| 2 | No that 's part of the the windows washing but I 'll quickly washed over them just to spruce them up a bit but I thought if I put Mrs in that , is she driving , or is she not ? |
| 3 | He spat a bit as he spoke and Carrie dreaded the moment when she would have to shake hands and be spat at . |
| 4 | Faldo conceded the French and Belgian Opens when victory seemed a formality and he bristled when I questioned these fallibilities during his march to triumph in the European Open at Sunningdale . |
| 5 | Did n't give a shit whether I lived or died . ’ |
| 6 | But while South Africa cruised home with a day to spare to go 1-0 up in the four-match series , it was more of a struggle than they expected after India began the fourth day at 71-6 , just eight runs ahead . |
| 7 | ( d ) Meech held that the accused was under an obligation to retain and deal with a cheque if he believed that he was under such a duty , though in fact he was not . |
| 8 | Botica 's scintillating running earned him the Man of the Match Award and he ended with a points haul of 18 with seven goals and a try when he swooped and fly-kicked on a wayward Northern pass which had gone to ground 40 yards out . |
| 9 | There as you probably know are various groups who feel that they , ought to erm , they ought to take a stand because they felt that Port Meadow actually the character of Port Meadow was changing and ultimately the Council I think agreed with them , that something should be done and this was the action that was taken . |
| 10 | ‘ He did n't realize he 'd dropped a brick when he admitted that he knew where we were going . |
| 11 | This , of course , was not her only reward in life , but she made her hour a ritual that everyone observed and she derived a lot of pleasure from it . |
| 12 | Well because I was in the office I got a pound a week , you see , and the , do you know the Manageress there who , she was the Manageress then sorry , I 've got a photograph and she said that when she was Manageress at Colchester and she only got fifteen shillings a week |
| 13 | Erm there was a , I mean there was a lot of friction , I mean , I mean I 'm really lucky to have the strength of a friendship that I did because you know , if , I would n't have got , you know where I am , sort of without it , I think . |
| 14 | This year we 've restricted it to primary , partly because we felt that 's where the enthusiasm was , and partly , if people wo n't mind me saying so , to keep out the computer science specialists — we felt that , you know , we did n't want a club for boffins or for the experts , we wanted a club and we felt that if we started at the primary end , where there was n't a lot of expertise , we would probably be of more use . |
| 15 | And that was the only time that I 've fired a rifle cos , well actually I went got , rose to a corporal I was a corporal when they finished and erm I was in er made cor lance corporal and then I was er with a heavy Vickers machine gun , that 's the one with the has water cooled casing on it the big heavy one you see , and I was with that , that team . |
| 16 | The old man was paralysed now after a stroke and she supposed that she ought to feel sorry for him lying there in his hospital bed , useless as a felled tree , mouth slavering , only the angry eyes moving in impotent fury from face to watching face . |
| 17 | And I went to my mate this morning who 's a boxer and he said that it 's now maybe , maybe a groin strain |
| 18 | Well , she tells me that she is going to throw Shaun out because Shaun is boring , er , Don put her , Shaun she has no respect for she says because he has n't got a job , he wo n't get a job , he wo n't work , and she said to Lee what did I think of the idea of taking Pete back , once they were properly divorced take Pete back just as a lover and I said that sounds to me to be a very good idea , I said then your not at his mercy because anybody who 's at Pete 's mercy will suffer , his got a very nasty streak , his got a nasty snide way of putting things . |
| 19 | In Benton v Campbell , Parker and Co Ltd [ 1925 ] 2 KB 410 , it was held that the auctioneer was not liable to the purchaser for the sale of a car when it transpired that the person who put the car into the auction was not the owner . |
| 20 | Th this company must be in a bloody sight worse a mess than we thought and the government are not letting us know this is what they 're look for are scapegoats and they they 're . |
| 21 | I was just about to say I expect you could really make a mess if you tried and then I realized I was covered in and I 'd better shut up . |
| 22 | Yet it was a dream and I knew that dreams never last . |
| 23 | I got a bag of potatoes , the ones , say I thought erm this morning , I 'd , I 'd open a tin of corned beef actually it was an accident I er forgot that , what , I was opening a tin of corned beef for , erm , I was gon na make a salad when I realized that I did n't like corned beef |
| 24 | Now I might have extra players so that there can be some moments of rest for the players in one of the very long symphonies ; but in Bruckner 's day it was often a matter of re-scoring a passage because you knew that the third horn was not a very good player and that is all you had . |
| 25 | He was not a fool and he recognized that what came out when Therese opened her mouth was a unique sound that could , if she had continued in her youthful career , have taken her right up to the top , to the international opera houses of the world . |
| 26 | No really , and er , so I , I do n't feel quite such a fool as I did when I started to speak . |
| 27 | The aircraft Crew Chief had a routine that he followed when opening the bomb doors and he always stood in the same place ; fairly adjacent to one of the doors . |
| 28 | There was , in fact , a social element present in the Treaty of Rome itself , but Mr Hattersley had a point when he suggested that the last ten years saw capitalism and the pursuit of free trade relegated within the EEC to a secondary position . |
| 29 | Lee had felt the emotional voltage in the room heighten to a point when she thought that Philippa would slam the door behind her , hard , but the door closed as gently as if there were a baby asleep in the house . |
| 30 | There was a point when I wondered if someone was having me on , but few people even knew I had written in . |