Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er , I did n't see a nun at , most of them were just ordinary nursing staff , just popped in to see how I was and we had a long chat about |
| 2 | She was no taller than I was and she wore a grey thing that looked like a schoolgirl 's dress . |
| 3 | I 'm going to tell you right away that , although I was n't a virgin when we married , I was until I left the train with Ludovico . |
| 4 | Well , I said , I 'll give it a chance , I said , and if it does n't pay , Cos he was better off than I was because he had the two shops . |
| 5 | And you were If you had a spare room you were all Well I think you were forced to take in troops and we had Elizabeth , a baby , and we had lodgers , nearly all the wartime . |
| 6 | This girl who 's hair I do erm her little girl , Karla cor she 's if I found a little girl to look like her , I 'd have one ! |
| 7 | Meg , I think the first time I met you was when you brought a party of visitors from the British Council here , is that right ? |
| 8 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
| 9 | so that 's how close we were when we had the blow out thing . |
| 10 | One is that he led a wretched existence since MacQuillan took over and that he lost his temper when he found his office taken over by someone else . |
| 11 | But that one was and I heard a year ago but I never saw it till the bus driver I went with some years ago up to John O'Groats . |
| 12 | Not only do a greater proportion of phone boxes work , but there are more boxes today than there were before we introduced the privatised control system . |
| 13 | Athelstan sensed that , if he had known who they were before he answered the door , he would never have let them inside , or else would have taken measures to hide whatever he had in the house . |
| 14 | oh they were cos he got a guarantee slip with it |
| 15 | Therefore , next time they spawned I left the eggs where they were until I had a new tank prepared for the adults . |
| 16 | Why I asked him is because he had a wedding invitation for Rob and Jen |
| 17 | What had startled him was that she had a sister , Sandra Riverton , who had worked for INCUBUS in Suffolk . |
| 18 | What shook Burton was not that he would appear to ‘ the World ’ , i.e. the metropolitan thespians , as someone who had failed in a straight contest with another rising young actor , Scofield — although that made him angry and inflamed his competitive instincts — what shook him was that he had no real idea why it had happened . |
| 19 | The only reason she had decided to put herself through all this with him was because she had a point to prove — a professional point . |
| 20 | ‘ The last I saw of him was as he entered the bedroom , ’ Petion replied . |
| 21 | The point about her was that she had a trick which worked and , unlike many politicians , She Was Not Found Out . |
| 22 | How long has it been since I got a present from a girl ? |
| 23 | Could it be that someone had an interest in keeping it alive ? |
| 24 | How much further would it be before she reached the main road ? |
| 25 | ‘ And how would it be if we offered a slight reduction for buying the two tickets together ? |
| 26 | So that 's one tenth and that 's one tenth and then what I 'd like you to do is work it out as a fraction what fraction of how many degrees would it be if you had a tenth of three hundred and sixty degrees , how many degrees would that come to ? |
| 27 | It 's like she had a multi-barrelled gun , and has n't just shot herself in the foot , but shot herself everywhere and blown her own head off , and no-one seems to have noticed . |
| 28 | It 's like she flashed a bright light in my eyes , and I have to look away . |
| 29 | Ah no , racing , ah , it 's cos I bought a horse , that 's why |
| 30 | But it 's because we accepted the challenge of change , even though we may not have liked everything that went with it , that we 're here today . |