Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] [be] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Though he never idealised it or pretended it was anything but ‘ the rude rags of nature ’ , he saw things in it to which Crabbe was completely blind or hostile , and he felt their loss when change and ‘ improvement ’ came : |
2 | Or had it been something more subtle , a pledge that , despite everything , they were allies , that he understood her priorities and would make them his ? |
3 | We wasted days and days dancing in the Pink Pussy Club , yawning at Fat Mattress at the Croydon Greyhound , ogling strippers on Sunday mornings in a pub , sleeping through Godard and Antonioni films , and enjoying the fighting at Millwall Football Ground , where I forced Changez to wear a bobble-hat over his face in case the lads saw he was a Paki and imagined I was one too . |
4 | Intending not to forget her car again , however , Fabia dipped her spoon into her pudding , sampled it , and discovered it was something of a rather superb plum pie , if different from what she knew . |
5 | Mercer Lorrimore was over in England at that time , and stayed and went racing at Newmarket in July , but the Jockey Club found him grimmer than his usual self and understood it was something to do with his son , although he did n't say what . |
6 | And thought it was somebody else . |
7 | However , Mr McAllister says that three days after Margaret McLaughlin 's death Beattie did not know her name and thought it was someone else who had died . |
8 | ‘ Well , I moved out , came to live here in a rented house I ca n't really afford , Susan sold the flat , which seemed a bit more than a symbolic act , I continued to love her and miss her , I tried to understand what she felt and hoped it was something she 'd eventually work through so that we could be together again . |
9 | Edouard admitted he 'd been attacked but denied it was anything to do with Barbara being there . ’ |