Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT WAS a two-part induction process that dragged me into the brawling hostelry in the sky of NME Towers . |
| 2 | It will inevitably be a political process but it will be a more informed political judgement , the reformers claim , than the pure bargaining process that preceded it . |
| 3 | At that moment Lesley-Jane saw your face — she told me you ‘ looked over your shoulder at her ’ but I did n't at the time realise that meant you must have been facing away from the stage . |
| 4 | Governors admit they knew of an association between the 2 men , but they say that gave them no cause for concern . |
| 5 | ‘ 'E dai n't say that did 'e ? ’ |
| 6 | To add to her miserable state a bleak wind had got up , bringing with it a sweet tangy yeast smell that made her stomach roll and cry out . |
| 7 | I helped him sit down on the one centre thwart and arranged his legs as comfortably as possible , Harry cursing and wincing by turns . |
| 8 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 9 | Insp Cammish , 45 , a part-time lifeboat crew member , was preparing to report for his police shift but offered his help to the rescue party . |
| 10 | Mark Roe explains the swing change that helped him win the recent Lancome Trophy . |
| 11 | The muzzle flash that accompanied their arrival came from inside the house . |
| 12 | You could listen almost any time , anywhere — especially with your Walkman headset that filtered nothing but a mildly irritating hiss to passengers in your bus , say , or your train compartment . |
| 13 | Or was it just fear that paralysed her , like a frightened rabbit ? |
| 14 | It was not only fear that drove her forward . |
| 15 | The intense moments of pain and fear that gripped me were too remote to be understood by anyone who has not been through a similar experience . |
| 16 | GAME show host Leslie Crowther is fully conscious again , five weeks after the car crash that put him in a coma . |
| 17 | Leslie , who lives at Corston , near Bath , Avon , has not spoken since the Rolls-Royce crash that put him in Bristol 's Frenchay Hospital . |
| 18 | I says of course , yes right he says , I really enjoyed he says you know , so I mean that made my day that did Dare n't tell Shirl , sh otherwise she 'll say you 'll do all the cooking ! |
| 19 | And I mean that made you feel bad as well . |
| 20 | ‘ It was the thought of a bush walk that caught my fancy , ’ she said without actually meeting his eye . |
| 21 | I hope that got us through the little post-lunch siesta period , erm , we 're going to do another er , time management game now which will take about half an hour , and I need to split you up once again into groups , erm , okay . |
| 22 | PICTURE THAT MADE ME SICK AT Lord Spencer 's funeral , Diana reached for Lady Spencer 's arm . |
| 23 | She saw one of them stumble and took her chance , moving in as he staggered up , catching him beneath the chin with stiffened fingers . |
| 24 | The Woman leaned forward further and punched him hard , in the mouth . |
| 25 | Tools , jigs , moulds , cut and beat your own chassis in soft aluminium or steel , make your own pin and fly cutters , screw-cut inside and out , engrave , wind coils ( chokes , transformers ) , know forging , hardening , tempering , the use of precision instruments . |
| 26 | Well the money that we raised from there and also from another one was about three thousand nearly four thousand three thousand something and we presented er Tommy Cooper with the cheque on the Prince , the stage of the Prince of Wales Theatre , but that cheque was to buy a special ambulance for the children of Upshire , which is the home of the disabled and this special coach had erm places where you could wheel the children into the coach in their chairs with the clamps and those children that could be taken out of their chairs and put on seats put and had their belts put around them and that was the only way that these children were able to get out ! |
| 27 | On other occasions he had taken a drugs overdose and slashed his wrists . |
| 28 | I had heard all three works on this new BIS issue and thought I knew my feelings about them . |
| 29 | The Young Conservatives had turned their backs on the enemy , broken through the police cordon and forced their way into the hotel . |
| 30 | Then I started to make myself vomit and knew I had a problem . |