Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry I just ripped all the buttons off me shirt . |
| 2 | I 'm afraid I simply put two and two together . ’ |
| 3 | Funny he never fell foul of him . |
| 4 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 5 | Gregson had called immediately and Houghton had explained about the fingerprints and how he was sure he now had positive identification of at least one of the bodies . |
| 6 | He was n't sure he really wanted this , which was perhaps why he had not done much about it himself . |
| 7 | When I get in there , they 'll be sorry they ever said that to you . ’ |
| 8 | As the Wesleyan Methodists became increasingly respectable they too built grandiose chapels in the suburbs . |
| 9 | Although the classes were not compulsory I only missed two , partly through exhaustion and I wanted to visit the Orangery and conservatory attached to the college . |
| 10 | Deprived after Nechtansmere of the land and tribute from the Picts and Irish which probably underlay such power , Northumbria is likely to have been a poorer as well as a less dominant kingdom . |
| 11 | As Welsh coal became available he also purchased this and from his Truro base endeavoured to set up a monopoly of the local fuel business . |
| 12 | With one — Simon Fowler , who 's worked with Kylie a lot — I was so excited I almost felt nervous before the shoot . |
| 13 | Glad to know you had a good visit to — but am amazed you only used ten units of electricity . |
| 14 | We had been used to seeing bigger names travel here but somehow or other they never showed top form . |
| 15 | And a home in Woolton with eight-foot walls round it and floodlights and padlocks on the gate and burglar alarms linked to the nearest police station and curtains so thick and so wide they never left any gaps even without Velcro . |
| 16 | No , that 's what I 'm saying , true I just did that used to be a rotary . |
| 17 | Where once she had felt secure she now felt alone . |