Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [pron] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't fall over the wheel and she did pass her test . |
| 2 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 3 | Rona and he had taken a few round one afternoon , drinking endless cups of tea and listening to platitudes ; a pattern of conversation with all the formality of a dance , first the weather , and then naive politics of the cost of living . |
| 4 | Design manager Ian Cheetham , 30 , said calmly : ‘ It was no big deal and we had to get to a very important meeting with clients . ’ |
| 5 | She said we did a an experiment and we tried to perm a girl 's hair with Head and Shoulders |
| 6 | I remember my doctor coming in my kitchen some time ago ( he 's a good friend and a gastronome and he wanted to learn ) . |
| 7 | If you were on one side of the inside edge of the ring and you wanted to get to a point on the other side , you would have to go round the inner edge of the ring . |
| 8 | My father , Sir Tom , was the second most famous man of the British stage , of any stage for that matter ; a towering and famous figure , one of the great actors of all time , who accepted the adulation as his due and who had expected me , like the rest of his children , to follow in his footsteps . |
| 9 | Jitka turned and put her fingers to her lips as they came to the main bedroom and they tiptoed passed . |
| 10 | It is also a moment of generalisation for the twenty-one-year-old second mate who on this voyage from Australia , carrying grain and bent on winning the famous gain-race , had had to contend with an arrogant and hostile captain and who had cast off his boat , after a collision in the dark had given a mortal blow to the Blackgauntlet and he had waited in vain for orders . |
| 11 | However , at £75 million it was a very substantial investment and we had to open . ’ |
| 12 | He seemed unconcerned at letting me loose on his half-share investment and I tried telling myself that ahead lay merely a quick pop over three undemanding obstacles , not the first searching test of my chances of racing . |
| 13 | ‘ Bebeto was more reluctant than I was , but the president and I managed to persuade him , ’ said the midfielder . |
| 14 | The President and I agreed to establish a secure telephone link between our two offices . |
| 15 | Gloria tied on her red headscarf , Dot buttoned up her pink cardigan and they went to wait for the bus to take them down to the hospital to see how Baby was doing . |
| 16 | I mean , I was there er , I left yesterday afternoon , I mean , I had to go in early and we had erm an auction and I helped do that . |
| 17 | And you 'd covered the acid house and you 'd covered AIDS and you 'd covered all the social issues , 'cos that 's was missing from the British press — it 's all like conventional politics as usual , or you get the |
| 18 | His comment had caught me in mid-swallow and I managed to spray little bits of scone onto the coffee table . |
| 19 | But I was n't struck by any thunderbolts or lightning flashes , and when talking about the dance afterwards in the Met Office I merely remarked to the officer on duty that I 'd met a very nice corporal and he 'd asked me to go to the Station cinema with him on Saturday . |
| 20 | Next day , McMartin 's parents had noticed that he was taking a great interest in news of the murder and he had told them some things about the incident . |
| 21 | A groan was his reply and he began kissing her again , this time letting his lips travel down her throat towards the open neck of her blouse and leaving a hot trail of sensation in his wake . |
| 22 | He appreciated that he got his international chance because of his club and he wanted to give something back . |
| 23 | So er there was this poor girl sitting on this seat and I 'd seen her there and so , there was a nice lady sat they said er they took the Redditch train off the thing and put this Shrewsbury on . |
| 24 | I sat back in my seat and I tried to think . |
| 25 | Then the toot of a trumpet and the clown with the enormous sorrowful eyes was coming at her in her ring-side seat and she wanted to run away . |
| 26 | John Angus Macrae , a fireman at Stornoway Airport , told his wife to telephone for the fire brigade and he went to offer assistance . |
| 27 | ‘ I took the photograph and I wanted to stride across to you , to confront you with your father , but he would not allow it . ’ |
| 28 | James had stated in the prologue to ‘ The Black Jacobins ’ that he had written the book with the independence of Africa in mind and he had considered it more than fortuitous that a number of other books by black writers had been published around the same time . |
| 29 | A. T. I was posted to D Division , Scotland Road , night duty round Great Howard Street leading to the Northern Hospital by the big tobacco warehouse and I had to patrol round there and along one street , up the next , down Dixon Street , up the next , down Regent Street — downdo , updo , updo , downdo all the time , trying shop doorways and all the locks . |
| 30 | He was obviously Garry 's brother-in-law and he had mistaken her for Dana . |