Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | David 's got more sense than I ever had and Chris is a good girl . |
| 2 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
| 3 | The queue on Sat am was outrageous , and I was told that the end of it would n't get Oxford tickets , so I just left and hoped for the best with the fax request . |
| 4 | But I was only a child , so I just stood and watched him out of sight and turned reluctantly to deliver his message . |
| 5 | She wanted him to go on , but he did n't , so she simply sat and dreamed and let her mind go floating out into the grey April morning towards the gulls and the sky and the sea . |
| 6 | The former Spurs full-back , whose Wimbledon team were among the originators of the direct approach , complained : ‘ Leeds hoofed the ball about 50 times further than we ever did and relied on John Lukic knocking it on to Lee Chapman 's head for about 70 per cent of their attacks . ’ |
| 7 | He was jumping already so we just tripped and fell on him . |
| 8 | Gleizes and Metzinger , themselves painters , and fascinated by purely formal pictorial problems , also began by seeing abstraction as the logical end , although they rapidly retreated and admitted the need , for the moment at least , of a certain coefficient of realism : ‘ … the painting imitates nothing and … must justify its existence in itself … |
| 9 | He was n't strong enough to get on to the par-5s in two for eagle chances , so he just chipped and putted for birdies . |
| 10 | Half awake , he was hailed by a guard for , inadvertently he 'd cycled through the entrance gates , so he quickly turned and pedalled away with heart churning . |
| 11 | He stared at her as if she already knew and was simply being obstructive . |
| 12 | She was worried that she would n't have an accurate idea of what she ate if she just picked and nibbled . |
| 13 | But if the real Caroline was accessible to Jonathan Reeves , if she really liked and wanted that unprepossessing wimp , then she hardly merited the tribute even of his curiosity . |
| 14 | He tended to regard the conversion of his son Harilal to Islam as something that was prompted by monetary considerations , and in the case of such converts , he maintains that they should be readmitted to Hinduism without hesitation if they so desired and truly repented of their erroneous actions . |
| 15 | He lowered himself gingerly to a gilt chair and stirred his coffee , the spoon circulating slowly until it finally stopped and he sat staring at it . |
| 16 | and he talk , he loves , he likes me now , cos he never did and he says he . |
| 17 | She must have become conscious of my appraisal , because she suddenly turned and glanced at me directly . |
| 18 | The shock of what he 'd just seen must have still been on his face because he just shrugged and ran . |
| 19 | When Widmark began questioning Wayne 's direction , Big John responded initially with patience and understanding because he greatly respected and admired the other actor . |
| 20 | I talked on about the poems , while she slowly relaxed and began to look happy , and even , in the end , cheerfully argumentative , which , with Megan , was par for the course . |
| 21 | Once her niece had found Lavender Cottage , however , Monica needed plenty of persuasion before she actually uprooted and transported herself and much of her furniture to Berkshire . |
| 22 | No we went in and erm it was about er three or four minutes before we actually started and he just gave us this paper and he put sets of questions to the different types of differentiation |
| 23 | But it was an hour later before they finally parted and went to their rooms . |
| 24 | All that crap about ‘ I do n't know why I lurv you but I do ’ was bollocks 'cos he then went and said the same things to the scum . |
| 25 | The staff admit that a sudden rise in entrances to the zoo was likely to be largely due to an interest by the public who wanted to visit it before it finally closed and they agree that problems remain for the future . |
| 26 | Soon she was completely absorbed , and when she finally straightened and looked at her watch she was staggered to find it was getting on for six o'clock . |
| 27 | When she finally appeared and handed Nathan his mug he nodded coolly . |
| 28 | Erm bearing in mind that when she actually came and spoke about her part-time job her income was thirty five pound a week and yet she said she was a tax payer well take home pay was thirty five pound a week and talking about being a tax payer . |
| 29 | Then , " I was walking behind the leading lady when she suddenly collapsed and water was dripping on her face . |
| 30 | The T'ang 's own cooks sat idle in her kitchen , watching with suspicion and a degree of amazement as she single-handedly prepared and served the meal . |