Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb pp] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pitt goes back into action this summer when he will shoot a ‘ very poetic script ’ with John Malkovich entitled Forget Me Not . |
| 2 | My step brother , Tommy , do you know the original well Mr was a sales rep for Bokes couriers , and er his wife used to make pickles , homemade , and she us Mr used to give his friends a jar of pickles occasionally and er from that the idea of selling them , cos it ou after they 'd started distributing amongst his friends he got the idea that there was a market for it , so my step-brother Tommy er started to work with Mrs we used to call them Mrs but her name was , Street you know where Street is , well on the left hand side of Street about oh at the back of the first row of houses in Street , there was a , a small open space and Mr had a big shed put there , and er started buying the pickling onions and er all the women who wished to started skinning onions at so much a bag for Mr and er he 'd gradually built himself up but me step- brother Tommy was er working full time helping Mrs to pick the onions and , and that , that 's how Mac 's Pickles started was just from a mere fact of him being a commercial traveller and he 'd di distribute them to his friends and created the , a market for himself really ac actually they , they , they did have a van driver and a van , a van to deliver them as they gradually increased the supply and they used to deliver them all , all around the area . |
| 3 | Half a gross on each board yeah , oh you could n't move away from your board at all and it was erm Mr his eyes seemed to be perhaps I should n't tell you this , but I 'm going to , it may be a bit humorous for you my er Mr used to send me out through the back way into street I think it is now , to wait for the paperman with a sporting book oh should I have said that ? |
| 4 | planning for you but what I can show you is some sketches which the gentleman who bought the plot at Grey Lane brought to show me asked my opinion . |
| 5 | And only during his second coming has Piggott appeared to realise what racing means to him . |
| 6 | well Mrs used to teach his music , she lived on the common at one time in one of those houses by Colin |
| 7 | And has Mrs Hampton agreed to help you ? ’ |
| 8 | Rug-making declined after the late 18th century , and only in the last 20 years has Egypt begun to re-establish itself as an important force . |
| 9 | There is spiritual value in the very handling of its primary elements to write a little song or dance , even an exercise ; even , as Bruckner used to show his classes , in a fifth or octave struck at a piano . |
| 10 | What had Lavinia , Lady Merchiston done to make him speak so ? |
| 11 | They called the job crow-keeping , a phrase that Shakespeare used to describe it ; some called it bird-keeping or bird-tending — keeping the birds off the newly sown land — while others referred to it simply as rook-scaring . |
| 12 | Despite everything , had Cheryl expected to find her husband there ? |
| 13 | It was the only thing she had that Guido had given her . |
| 14 | ‘ Has Micky agreed to use it ? ’ |
| 15 | Anton thought to have his measure . |
| 16 | A very important step was taken when Max Born made it clear that the waves of the new theory were probability waves . |
| 17 | Frank Stella forced to withdraw his plans for the Groningen Museum |
| 18 | Only how had Leo managed to persuade him ? |