Example sentences of "[pers pn] [subord] [noun] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Say , you know , you know when , you when Gill said to you |
| 2 | you when Gill said to you |
| 3 | The night before the wedding , they went out to all their favourite haunts — 1997 , Rick 's Café , the Go-Down — and ended up at two in the morning getting out of a taxi in Wan Chai , the neon blazing in the hot night , dark-eyed Chinese girls in brightly lit doorways , American sailors talking to them while people slept on the pavements and steaming noodles were served at three dollars a bowl at the poor-man 's lean-to restaurant . |
| 4 | He had said he would stop seeing her if Rachel confessed to jealousy , to being hurt . |
| 5 | McCandless , accompanied by a Canadian student named Arthur Jaffray , spotted Mrs. O'Connor about an hour later and whilst Jaffray ran for a boat and some ropes , McCandless with complete disregard for the dangers , fought his way through the strong current to reach Mrs. O'Connor and supported her until Jaffray arrived in a boat with the woman 's father . |
| 6 | Dawson looked at her while North looked at Dawson . |
| 7 | Otley and I held on to him while Nigel searched for a large piece of wood to haul him out with , and in the meantime we had a close-up of the lush vegetation of the riverside : buttercups , forget-me-nots , dog roses and honeysuckle and the shy little water avens modestly hiding its peach-coloured face . |
| 8 | A nasty suspicion presented itself to her as Rune drove into the courtyard outside his flat , parking the car neatly . |
| 9 | Des Walker put his Spanish problems behind him as Sampdoria moved into third spot thanks to a 2-1 win at Udinese , while Lazio , minus Paul Gascoigne , registered their third consecutive draw . |
| 10 | Maybe that Maria Luisa in Seville had meant as much to him as Fernando had to her . |
| 11 | GUY WHITTINGHAM 'S golden touch deserted him as Portsmouth slipped to a 3–0 defeat in Bari last night . |
| 12 | Bough tried to put his troubles behind him as guests arrived for a lunch yesterday held behind drawn curtains . |
| 13 | ‘ Thanks , ’ Oliver called after him as Cobalt headed for the kitchen . |
| 14 | ‘ I will , ’ she promised , and promptly forgot about it until Sarah said during the week , ‘ That girl Ella that you know , Anne . |
| 15 | The reasons for doing so were various , but prominent among them was that quality chess seemed to demand the ability to devise a plan and stick to it when circumstances changed in unpredictable ways . |
| 16 | She did n't like it when Dot slipped in unseen and with Mr Brown gone off to college , she had n't so many people who would listen to her . |
| 17 | He dug a hole , but he had dug only a little of it when Frith came over the hill alone . |
| 18 | Forgiving sin since Christ has died , forgiving sin is easy but it was , yet , it was the hardest thing that God could do because he could only do it when Christ died for us . |
| 19 | From Bailey 's first thrust to Simon Smith 's closing dig there was only one side in it as Bedford stumbled to their fourth defeat in five matches . |
| 20 | For days Kartoffel stood below it as storms flashed across the vertiginous face of ice and rubble . |
| 21 | Sometimes Gabriel 's ghost was so physical , so vivid , that Lee would almost cry out to Larry to warn him as he moved through it between the kitchen and the living-room or walked over it as Gabriel lay on the carpet in front of the television . |
| 22 | She was still grimacing from the shock of it as Guido swept from the room , announcing over his shoulder , ‘ So , you 'd better deliver the goods — or else I will ! ’ |
| 23 | He dropped his cigarette on the floor and stamped on it as Berger came round the corner , a rolled-up map under his arm . |
| 24 | The leaden feeling that weighed heavily on me as Jean-Claude rode into Paris did not lift when we fetched up at the house in the rue Victorie . |
| 25 | The two were poring over them when Simon came into the room . |
| 26 | I hope they will still claim that rain belongs to them when people put in insurance claims for flood damage . |
| 27 | Mountains of foam-streaked grey water humped and dipped all around them as Seawitch porpoised through the broken waves . |
| 28 | Well certainly I mean this this whole initiative is something that I s just seemed to me when Philip got in touch in the first place , that that something that we ought to er be involved with . |
| 29 | But it was always going to be difficult for us once Huddersfield scored with a penalty . |
| 30 | Film and TV were with us before video came into our homes and then into our classrooms . |