Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course everyone knew all about it , just as they knew that the Mackays , poor souls , had done everything they could for the boy ever since they took him in for adoption . ’ |
| 2 | When they grew up and went off into the wild I suffered dreadful pangs . |
| 3 | In my days as a Justice 's Clerk I saw enough corpses to know that death can grossly disfigure even the comeliest of faces . ’ |
| 4 | I had nightmares about scrums and tackles from a very early age and refused to play as a linesman , in case I got involved in violence . |
| 5 | I had n't even looked at the floor in case I got nostalgic for my own personal locks now lost to me for ever . |
| 6 | My erm , when I was little , I used to have this reoccuring dream , and it was really , really scary , and I just , I used to get really scared , I did n't want to go to sleep , in case I had this reoccuring dream , and what it was , was erm , I do n't know , I , I think I did n't like swimming when I was little , so that might , what sparked it off , and I could n't swim for ages |
| 7 | ‘ If that was the case I found great difficulty in seeing how he could get permission from my local authority to license me , ’ he said . |
| 8 | In this particular case I used wild roses , plus their buds and leaves . |
| 9 | Since then there have been other men in her life but tonight , the plans I laid all those years ago reach fruition as I proudly introduce my partner for the evening . |
| 10 | It was my responsibility I brought that child into the world , and there was no way I was going to thrust her off onto other people . |
| 11 | Between these operations I did occasional voluntary work , mainly on an archaeological site . |
| 12 | In addition I recovered three William III sixpences that came up from a depth of between 9 to 10 inches . |
| 13 | ‘ Despite my close relationship with Sonauto I had solid contacts with Honda and I remember the problems I brought on myself . ’ |
| 14 | Sainsbury 's own-label champagne I bought two years ago tastes even better now , developing greater fullness and depth of flavour without losing its keen edge or sparkling personality . |
| 15 | And I 've got to say this , in some cases I had additional time as a shop steward and a convenor , to spend on major problems er affecting the incentive scheme . |
| 16 | In some cases I opened that menu and selected exit . |
| 17 | ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’ |
| 18 | They asked me to help dress the models who wandered around showing clothes to the ladies having afternoon tea in the restaurant , and after a bit I did some modelling myself . |
| 19 | For several hours I accepted this absurdity . |
| 20 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 21 | Within two hours I had all the information I needed to know . |
| 22 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 23 | Mum I finded two that 's not together |
| 24 | We then found that we did n't have enough cash to pay the landing fees , and in response I offered Portuguese escudos , converting at the rate in the newspaper . |
| 25 | To see if topical streptokinase , as in ‘ Varidase ’ ( streptokinase and streptodornase ) could be absorbed from a wound site and produce a similar response I measured anti-streptokinase titres in patients with wounds . |
| 26 | MV I spent four years at university , from 1949 until 1953 . |
| 27 | Thwaite is also on the Pennine Way and it was the Pennine Way route I took one August cloudy day lip and out from the village towards Keld . |
| 28 | For half an hour I thought that was the end of our career . |
| 29 | Oh shit I thought that was a two . |
| 30 | And in that time I became very close to the bunch of desperadoes I 'd first flown out with . |