Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You wired them together to make a kind of pyramid . |
| 2 | Bernice suddenly found she badly needed a drink , but her hip flask was empty . |
| 3 | However well she did , however hard she tried she never earned a word of praise from her husband , the royal family or their courtiers . |
| 4 | Graham had already budgeted on being in Martigny ten minutes prior to the train 's scheduled arrival so when he reached the station he found he actually had an hour to kill . |
| 5 | And you 'd say , right , and you 'd go the , after the baby was born you , you 'd go back again to what we call the nur nursing , nursing up and you 'd want the bowl again for the baby and you 'd say wh where 's the bowl and they 'd say , oh well I think it 's downstairs , we used it yesterday to make a pudding in . |
| 6 | Well , there was a silly ole cow workin' in the office an' when I went in there she give me a dirty look an' told me ter take a seat . |
| 7 | Their teeth and jaws can inflict such damage that an expert fisherman once told me never to put a finger in even a dead pikes ' mouth . |
| 8 | By the end of the war this culture had been defeated , and the victorious Puritans and their nonconformist allies who had gained control of the reins of central government believed they now had an opportunity to impose on the whole nation the same moral reforms that prior to 1640 they had struggled to instigate piecemeal at a local level . |
| 9 | When we were asleep , it had ceased to matter , but when we ate it still remained a bore . |
| 10 | Circumstances had obliged him to sell out to three younger partners , but until they came he never had a telephone or typewriter . |
| 11 | I never bothered much about Allie , and most of the time I forgot I even had a brother . |
| 12 | But he said he reckoned they probably shot a bit wide , and anyway the officers would see that they tried , and it was better to be shot by the other side rather than your own . |
| 13 | As the show opened they even enjoyed a beer with the first day crowds . |
| 14 | Yes I want to go in , oh when I come round I need a contract signed I also need an order with this wording on it . |
| 15 | The tale that tickled me most concerns a trip to England — a country which Rollins caricatures as a pissing-with-rain hell hole populated entirely by spotty Morrissey-worshipping wimps who eat nothing but fish and potatoes smeared with grease . |
| 16 | It is often the way with Mughal ruins : while the more primitive forts which preceded them still have an aura of power as they rise solid and impregnable from the burning plains , the silky refinement expressed in Mughal architecture turns , in decay , to something approaching seediness . |
| 17 | On the verge of tears , Mr Wolk went on television to appeal to people to refrain from taking to the streets , and urged them instead to keep a lit candle in their window . |
| 18 | The bats just decided to smash me around the island , and for every bag of boundaries they hit they then made a mistake . |
| 19 | I could not see , then , how I might press on with this bantering ; in fact , I decided it best to call a halt to the matter and , pretending to remember something I had urgently to attend to , excused myself , leaving my employer looking rather bemused . |
| 20 | Nobody wished me goodnight , as Zillah took me upstairs to find a bed for me . |
| 21 | Working part of lunchtime had a slight advantage for me because it meant I now had a bit more time to load the container rail set . |
| 22 | ‘ I felt I never got a chance there , but I have been given the chance at Norwich and I 'm very pleased with how well it has gone . ’ |
| 23 | I thought I just had a voice . ’ |
| 24 | A few years ago this was only available in specialist nurseries , but I thought I recently caught a glimpse of it in Geoff Hamilton 's ornamental vegetable garden on the television , so I suppose it has come of age . |
| 25 | For the first time since she iced her Dad , Jazzbeaux felt she really had a purpose on this dull earth . |
| 26 | I knew she now had a boyfriend . |
| 27 | At the far end was St. Giles Church — which meant we never had an excuse for being late anywhere as the bells tolled the hour — and the quarters — right through the night |
| 28 | No I think , I thought we still had a chance , albeit you know the odds had gone down a bit or increased , but er no I thought we still had a chance , it was gon na be harder because if we lost any more by the wayside then you know you 're gon na be , it would 've been very awkward . |
| 29 | No I think , I thought we still had a chance , albeit you know the odds had gone down a bit or increased , but er no I thought we still had a chance , it was gon na be harder because if we lost any more by the wayside then you know you 're gon na be , it would 've been very awkward . |
| 30 | ‘ Whoever it was that took her never spoke a word the whole time , which made the whole experience worse . |