Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Middle Ages everyone ate in the same manner — like pigs . |
| 2 | But on the ramparts nothing appeared ; when the Collector tried transplanting weeds , bushes , vegetation of every kind , within a few hours everything had wilted . |
| 3 | After five minutes nothing had happened . |
| 4 | We all sat in dead silence waiting for Helen to get the urge , but for about ten minutes nothing happened , just heavy breathing all round . |
| 5 | For one or two minutes nothing happened . |
| 6 | For twenty minutes nothing happened . |
| 7 | Vases of different shapes and sizes lay beside pebbles , weavings , ancient carvings and many other objects no-one knew the purpose of . |
| 8 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 9 | However , as soon as we reached the interview for the home/school post a debate on the school and the community began again as shown from the notes I took where the main participants in the discussion were Phil Barlow ( the Deputy Head for Curriculum ) , Chris Cousins ( the Deputy Head for Community ) , Ann Thomas ( the Community Adviser for the LEA ) and Father Curtis ( the Chairman of the Governors ) . |
| 10 | For some time I had wanted to move further from London with its many social distractions , and now with the half million words of notes I had brought back with me from my world tour waiting to be distilled into a book , I felt the need more than ever . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , I wrote to him in rather a hurry , and did n't take copies of the notes I sent him . |
| 12 | ‘ I came to see you about some notes I sent your husband . |
| 13 | When I search a farmland site I always keep careful records , and looking back to my notes I started to search the areas where there had been the greatest concentration of finds . |
| 14 | I never ceased to be astounded by how quickly and thoroughly he absorbed the notes I gave him . ’ |
| 15 | The following is summary of notes I showed you today , I do n't think Rob was in a receptive mood ! : |
| 16 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 17 | In these notes I described the aims and origins of the scheme : |
| 18 | While the hairdressers I spoke to admitted the cult of the dominating hairdresser was strong in the last decade , they all feel it 's now on it 's way out . |
| 19 | And he referred quite clearly to the notes someone had taken , information my mother must have given them . |
| 20 | I also operate with the assumption that , although my results pertain strictly only to the sample of forty housewives I interviewed , there is no reason why they should not relate to the wider population of housewives , since it can not be shown that the forty women are unrepresentative of the larger population . |
| 21 | And silently my teeth I gnashed |
| 22 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 23 | ‘ One of the reasons I chose London was that it 's a fast course and it would more special to break a record in front of a home crowd , ’ she said . |
| 24 | the reasons I said I I I I could go along with that approach as well . |
| 25 | well we ca n't go into the reasons for that but I said let's respect the reasons I said if that 's how you feel I said , you 're a man you you must make your own decisions I said probably in a few months time you 'll come |
| 26 | Such reasons I dubbed above ‘ dependent reasons ’ . |
| 27 | I was getting used to the odd feeling of distance , which made it seem as if it was all about someone else , but it was alarming to see how most of the articles highlighted the love-story angle , rather than the conditions in which John was held or the reasons I 'd given as to why the Government should be doing more . |
| 28 | We are not happy with the Labour resolution for reasons I indicated earlier . |
| 29 | One of the reasons I managed to improve so quickly was that I practised in flat water with a steady wind . |
| 30 | In fact it 's one of the reasons I brought you here . ’ |