Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them made crochet toilet-seat covers that they sold at the shop . |
| 2 | By 1989/90 the Exchequer met only 43.4 per cent , with a further 4 per cent coming from a central grant that reimbursed authorities for part of the rate rebates that they gave to poor households . |
| 3 | Drafts that you made of the report and later improved or discarded should also be retained . |
| 4 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 5 | I turned our closed circuit cameras onto the flag-wavers and they appeared on the huge screens above the stage . |
| 6 | West Dorset District Council , for instance , was refusing to house people evicted from winter-lets unless they qualified for housing prior to entering such accommodation , even though in this case they would presumably have sought council accommodation in the first place ( Larkin 1979 ) . |
| 7 | It had been all whispers and lies till they got to the shop . |
| 8 | Those who had previously found part of their income from ironmaking were thrown back on the less adequate resources of Wealden farming , although a small number of nomads continued to burn charcoal for the London market , camping in branch and sod hovels as they migrated from wood to wood . |
| 9 | He also sent his brother a sketch of the little church at Turnham Green — together with a sketch of another church at Petersham — and he records that he returned to Turnham Green on a number of occasions subsequently . |
| 10 | And there was scarcely a shirt to be found that did not have the high necks and ruffles that she favoured in the early days . |
| 11 | Has he forgotten , within the past hour and a half , the belly laughs that he got from his own Back Benchers with his stories of social security fraud ? |
| 12 | And it just so happens that I mentioned to one of my doormen that particular night that I could do with one of those machines to keep a careful check on my blood pressure . |
| 13 | He says that they went into the deal with their eyes open , there is no way the council treated them unfairly . |
| 14 | Byrne says that they added to the confusion by jumping up and down and shouting with glee . |
| 15 | Thor Heyerdahl 's cherished notion that the Pacific islanders are descended from South American voyagers drifting westward does n't stand a chance against the genetic evidence , which says that they came from Asia . |
| 16 | She says that they banged on the doors , and got them out . |
| 17 | He says that they spoke to Mr Morley and he agreed to come out . |
| 18 | He talks of my ‘ reticence and charm ’ and says that I looked like an ‘ office-worker ’ ! |
| 19 | However , there are both practical and legal problems in cases where the woman says that she consented through fear only : she did not resist , because she thought that it would be hopeless in the circumstances , she was terrified , or she feared serious violence . |
| 20 | She says that she screamed for help — another two minutes and the twins would have died because of all the smoke and flames . |
| 21 | Also , people have been saying to me , ‘ My brother 's girlfriend 's aunt says that she spoke to someone who saw you on ‘ News at Ten ’ the other day ! ’ |
| 22 | Wipo , the biographer of the emperor Conrad II of Germany , says that he burst into tears after hearing a sermon delivered to him at his coronation in 1024 . |
| 23 | He says that he seemed like a nice chap . |
| 24 | el-Kefevi likewise says that he came in the reign of Mehmed I and adds " during the decade of the 820s ' , which would mean that Fahreddin Acemi arrived in the early 820s . |
| 25 | Mecdi , in his article on Molla Husrev , says that he went in 877/1472–3 but gives no indication of the date of his return . |
| 26 | His mother says that he talked to her about it and she tried to convince him that he was misinterpreting what he had seen and heard , but as far as I can learn John never mentioned it to anyone else until late in life , when telling Dr Schäfer about the thoughts which led him to make his ballet Spuren . |
| 27 | She says that he pushed past her and said he 'd lost somthing in her garden . |
| 28 | He says that he worked at Emma 's request to produce a record of the deeds which touched upon the honour of her and hers , and the oldest surviving manuscript , which is very close to the author 's original , may be the copy she received : it contains a miniature which shows an ecclesiastic presenting a book to a woman while two figures , presumably her sons Harthacnut and Edward , look on . |
| 29 | What he says is that erm you know when he was writing of six hundred and fifty eight seats in parliament , I do n't know how many there are now , but he says if we allowed for people to be paid , then we have as it were six hundred and fifty eight prizes to people 's six hundred and fifty eight jobs for people and he says and this is rather astonishing to hear , to read this is that it will attract adventurism of low class to er parliament if we pay members of parliament . |
| 30 | If it does n't happen this year it 'll happen next spring you see , and of course er one lady who had been with her aunty er over in the Germany , she says when they went into , she knew they were accumulating theirs , she had some friends in Germany and of course they , she said they were hoarding up just at the borders of Poland I think it would be then . |