Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | College induction programmes for staff new to FE were in their infancy at that time and I probably felt content in the knowledge of my own ‘ expertise ’ . |
| 2 | My older brother and I immediately laid siege to our mother to let us go . |
| 3 | By this time people were organising treks out of Burma and the chaplain 's wife begged me to take you three out by a plane leaving Shwebo next day , but you were all too sick , and so we stayed on and I hastily sewed boiler suits against mosquitoes if and when we could trek out . |
| 4 | which is what I , I , in the I had Eric Bristow and Maureen one night , and , I mean , it was just little dart board in the corner , but what I did was , I had a big screen like that and I just got student television service just to film it live and just throw it straight back up onto the big |
| 5 | I avoided ice cubes , salads and water — I even cleaned my teeth in mineral water — and I still fell prey to a stomach bug . |
| 6 | I was ill , some thought very ill , and I still needed help . |
| 7 | Oddly enough many years later — and shortly before his death — " Cocky " and I often had breakfast together in the RAF Club and he never berated Bennett or in any way referred to the difference of opinion that certainly existed in the Pathfinder era . |
| 8 | ‘ I was a decent bloke and I never had syphilis neither , ’ Mr Sugden explained , ‘ I had lead poisoning , that 's why I went bald . ’ |
| 9 | People that I have known through the years in the music business always knew where to find me and I never moved address . |
| 10 | So er it was n't pleasant and I did n't have it a lot either , because I never were very big , and I never liked punishment , it made me cry every time . |
| 11 | I made sure I was well prepared before the big day and I especially took time in deciding my dress . |
| 12 | Unless either of us was out on a noon-time assignment Fred Workman and I usually had lunch together at Mrs Pete Stewart 's Bakery & Lunch-Room on Main Street , just down the back lane from the Times ' Building . |
| 13 | On the north side of this square , and just across from the famous 13th century well , is the Hotel Leon Bianco which we picked for Citalia guests three years ago and which immediately found favour amongst them . |
| 14 | The irony is that in all of the experiments on test-tube fusion that began in 1989 following the March announcements , and which variously claimed fusion evidence from heat or from radiant neutrons , no measurable production of helium ever took place . |
| 15 | ‘ I imagine , daddy , ’ Matilda said quietly , ‘ that you were n't looking very hard and you simply took mummy 's bottle of hair stuff off the shelf instead of your own . ’ |
| 16 | And you then started work ? |
| 17 | And we go way back — way , way back , back to the time when you could still buy mono records , when kiwi fruit were yet to be devised , when the khaki-clad representative of the Automobile Association would salute the passing motorist , when a packet of Gold Flake cost a groat and a half and you still had change for a flagon of mead . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , you lost your breakfast and you never got lunch . |
| 19 | ‘ And who else received money ? ’ |
| 20 | Also he had become friendly with a Cockney man , older than he , who had been a french polisher and who now sold reproduction furniture to antique shops from a van . |
| 21 | She was no longer the mild , gentle creature who had gone down on her knees to implore him to make her his wife , but a sturdy , tight-lipped puritan of a woman who saw duty before all else and who always took care to drum the same principle into her children . |
| 22 | Elizabeth had won the essay competition and was just about to stand up when Jessica got up and she walked up to Mr and she asked and he asked her what magazine she wanted for the year and she said Rock Seventeen Jessica knew what magazine Elizabeth wanted and she just said Rock Seventeen . |
| 23 | The morning passed by in a flurry of activity , and she barely saw Dane , except for a fleeting moment as he rushed headlong along the corridor , pausing long enough to drop a kiss on her lips that turned her knees to water . |
| 24 | There was a stock of food in the larder and coal in the cellar and she even had money to pay the rent for a month . |
| 25 | ‘ Donkeys , Janet , ’ Gwendolen trilled again , but the will to fight had left her , and she easily ceded place of honour to Samuel . |
| 26 | It was now 15 weeks since beginning treatment and she now had discomfort walking and standing from the weight of the uterine tumour . |
| 27 | Fru Gertlinger knew that Elisabeth did not want to unpick the past with her and she never made mention of it . |
| 28 | Scarlet had thrown away all her old aluminium pans since she had learned that they might cause Alzheimer 's disease , and she never used tap water for cooking for the same reason . |
| 29 | Bridget had been one of those teenagers who work all through their school holidays in restaurants or in shops or cleaning houses and she always had cash . |
| 30 | And she always wore jet . |