Example sentences of "[adj] and [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know there might ha , there might have been three hundred ya , three hundred yards of houses semis and detached and they had a bit of land , but all the back of that , that was theirs ! |
| 2 | But I was young and Scottish and I thought I was the greatest . |
| 3 | She wished she could confide in Ella , but it was far too risky and she knew she would feel worse if anyone in the house knew about the baby . |
| 4 | It was risky and she knew it . |
| 5 | From what her mother had told her the experience would be horrendous and she had cried herself to sleep for the past week thinking about it . |
| 6 | Everything in bilingual Canada was written in both English and French and I realized that since my arrival I 'd been reading the French quite easily . |
| 7 | Jenny said nothing to this and they sat silent in the darkening room . |
| 8 | Newcastle had lost just one League game away from home before this and they started with all the confidence of a four-match winning run behind them . |
| 9 | I complained to Northumbrian Water about this and they gave me a very dusty answer . |
| 10 | Yes , at fifty instead of sixty , they said you retire at age fifty and we will make your pension up to what you would have got at age sixty and we will also do the same with you lump sum and so now you know , this and they did that with thirty thousand I think went in one year , it does n't take long to get rid of one point seven billion pounds when you 're doing for that er that number of people erm and |
| 11 | Some of the characters that people produce from this and they did them like Parkinson did , a Rolling Stone ball J , but outlined in drop shadow . |
| 12 | But the UK had never had a product like this and they needed it , ’ says John Bartic , visiting professor at Strathclyde University and joint chief executive of Bartle Bogle Hegarty ( BBH ) , the agency appointed to handle the launch and subsequent roll-out . |
| 13 | We could have bumped up interest rates but the client was reluctant to do this and we felt that a more cost-effective promotion would work . |
| 14 | I forgot my fears when she said this and we went off . |
| 15 | And so we did this and we had this bungalow at Mablethorpe which is still running , we 've been down , we went down a few weeks ago . |
| 16 | But we talk about this and we said we 're cutting the shopping down , I 'm not going shopping . |
| 17 | An ironical cheer went up at this and we settled down for the night . |
| 18 | In NZ this would be no problem as there would be loads of backpackers ( cheap accommodation ) within cooee of the airport , but Britain being a backward country there is nothing like this and we stayed with friends who live 20 miles away in the heart of the Sussex countryside . |
| 19 | D' ya remember going through this and what did the fella say on the phone , can you remember ? |
| 20 | Alec Home obtained this and himself read it out . |
| 21 | In contrast , Cramlington is ‘ non-urban ’ and was intended to be a more or less ( there was always some equivocation about this and it grew over time ) free-standing new town , located on a ‘ green field ’ site quite separate from the Tyneside conurbation . |
| 22 | I thought it showed a gross lack of understanding on her part to have made a comment like this and it made me doubt whether she understood the complexity of the situation . |
| 23 | He goes well I was playing with your chicken like this and it spat at me , so I bit its head off , clamped its eggs and set fire to its nest ! |
| 24 | I tried this and it worked . |
| 25 | Well I was watching one of those Antique Road Shows quite recently and I found a chap got one of those little sort of two inch diameter one inch high chamber pots and he said and where did you get this and she said er at a car boot sale and he said and how much did you pay and she said twenty five P . |
| 26 | But erm she said she has said that we could do this and she said that 's fine , she said . |
| 27 | Rose had noticed this and she had put it down to the awe and respect in which the man she so loved was held , and she was loath to see differently now . |
| 28 | She knew why he was doing this and she knew too that this was an intimacy she had never permitted before in her life . |
| 29 | The first was just 20 minutes after the polls closed when , during a sample of random live interviews in Manchester , a man with a business on the verge of bankruptcy cheerfully admitted that the Tories had got him into this and he relied on them to get him out . |
| 30 | St. Tue , whose hermit 's cell was nearby , heard of this and he attended the gathering to challenge Ulther , the leader of the giants , to a trial of strength . |