Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [coord] [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Israel if you got in debt you made yourself a voluntary slave for six years to the person you owed money to , a form of community service , and then you were set free after six years and your debts cancelled and you were given a new start in life . |
| 2 | I saw you two had your heads bowed and I was pretty sure it was n't religious devotion . |
| 3 | She wanted to do that with him , yes , actually that ; she thought about it on and on and waited all week for the moment that might or might not come on Sunday morning in church when , as her cousins went first down the aisle , Tristram glanced in her direction and their eyes met and she was able to send a thought message which said to him , yes , I have n't forgotten . |
| 4 | Well Windy 's the legs are crossed and we 're away just the legs crossed and we 're away there you go . |
| 5 | Her savings mounted and she was confident that come the summer she would be able to afford a journey to England . |
| 6 | His eyes narrowed and he was on the verge of saying more when Nina put her head round the door . |
| 7 | Her eyes strained but it was not repeated . |
| 8 | Her friends told her she looked wonderful , but her periods stopped and she was nervy , edgy and hard to be with . |
| 9 | Unlike serious pollsters , the brewer 's flaccid organ fails to report the size of the sample of Scousers interviewed but it is believed to be adjacent to the number of fans at a Tranmere Rovers away match . |
| 10 | The research did n't explore the sorts of relationships that parents wanted but it 's a pretty safe guess that they wanted teachers that did n't shout ; the Newsons ( 1984 ) reported that shouting by teachers was the major complaint which mothers made on behalf of their eleven-year-olds . |
| 11 | At a meeting of the FIS consultative council on July 25-26 , however , the hardliners prevailed and it was announced that the FIS would not participate in the conference called by the transitional government . |
| 12 | He kept the Wharfedale Inn where most of the cricketers met and it was in the front room of that establishment that the idea was developed . |
| 13 | And then in the last sort of seven to eight years , it starts to decline quite rapidly because you 're actually paying off the capital at that stage , and th that 's where I may meet somebody at say fifteen years , they thought their mortgage would run to age sixty five and they actually retire at sixty , they 've got five years left and they 're about there . |
| 14 | This is largely due to the increase in the number of module versions retained but it is also due to the overhead in the database management files controlling the database . |
| 15 | The council park committee members kept their fingers crossed but they were n't too worried . |
| 16 | Council is ‘ currently appraising replies received and it is likely that a public inquiry will be held during late October 1992 ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ An awful lot of people say they want things done but they are reluctant to stand up and be counted , ’ she said . |
| 18 | It sounded as though the lift stopped at the first floor but immediately the sounds resumed and it was rising , she thought , to the second floor . |
| 19 | Presently the lights passed and she was in the dark again ; and she went on , feeling her way . |
| 20 | King was pushing him hard , telling him he was no good and such like , when to King 's surprise Smith started to answer back and no one ever did that , so things worsened and it was n't long before they started fighting , an alarming situation on a small cramped footplate . |
| 21 | But the campaigners want the trade in Monkeys banned and it 's a cause that some Oxford shoppers today seemed ready to back . |
| 22 | The lights changed and he was pushed by someone behind him . |
| 23 | Then trees intervened and she was gone . |
| 24 | Their skin burned , their features dissolved and they were left faceless . |
| 25 | These are in addition to the normal tutorial files supplied and it is in the area of training that the second change has been made . |
| 26 | Zahira 's pains increased and she was screaming uncontrollably . |
| 27 | But a few years ago we were at a session in a pub one night erm playing music and er there was about twenty of us and about two o'clock in the morning the police raided it and we all had our names taken and we were all up in court and we were all fined I think three pound for being er drinking after hours and Tony was drinking a cup of coffee . |
| 28 | His black toes flexed and he was up . |
| 29 | Phones gone and it 's erm Mr . |
| 30 | His responsibilities and favours escalated and he was soon her personal attendant and constant companion . |