Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learned , too , that English lesbian feminists expected you to become one of them … you either assimilated or you disintegrated . |
| 2 | cos time was going on and I thought well just watch that , I knew you wanted it taped and I thought time were going on |
| 3 | What follows are the most reliable facts which his early biographies ( John Aiken , 1792 and James Baldwin Brown , 1823 ) provided and which have subsequently been checked and accepted , as far as possible , from his own works and from later accounts . |
| 4 | The author recalls an able Treasury minister who , after resignation , became a convinced and cogent parliamentary reformer , explaining that as a minister he had had no time to work out this aspect of policy and therefore , since the Treasury was opposed to more specialist committees of the House of Commons , he used the brief they provided and he had been a formidable opponent of these reforms at the Cabinet Committee level . |
| 5 | When a young boy , overcome with curiosity , stepped out and prodded the dog 's mouth with a stick , he was grabbed by the arm and hauled back roughly : and when a dog began idly sniffing the body , someone kicked out and shouted and it lurched away through the crowd . |
| 6 | ‘ Kelly , ’ I shouted and she turned round and shrieked , ‘ Annie , darling ’ , and we tried to fall into each other 's arms . |
| 7 | And it bounced and bounced and bounced and I thought it was going on for ages but it did n't . |
| 8 | ‘ One of these days ’ George promised and they smiled quickly at each other isolating Maxim in a twinge of envy . |
| 9 | ‘ I wo n't , ’ I promised and he went off to find his mates while I made my way home to start the chores . |
| 10 | Devraux was staring towards the front flaps as she entered and he froze when he saw her . |
| 11 | Mrs Wilson entered and he rose . |
| 12 | The VW , driven by Wing , overtook and he saw the defendant 's brother , a passenger in the car , gesticulating at him . |
| 13 | Although this is an isolated example it is typical of the problems I encountered and which led me to the conclusion that the product simply is n't ready for release into the market in its current form . |
| 14 | We both winced and I went back to some more work on the sulphonamides , and he to dressing his patients . |
| 15 | now this is an old rumour and er , he was an officer , er I think in the RAF and he had erm an accident his plane crashed and he died and this is why she dresses in military uniform all the time sort , you know she went a little bit deranged |
| 16 | Now he rose and they faced each other across the table . |
| 17 | His eyebrows rose and he met her steady gaze with a hint of amusement in his own . |
| 18 | We rose and he took me a short distance to Bread Street . |
| 19 | A few minutes later he rose and I heard him say , ‘ Goodnight and thank you for giving me your interesting reminiscences . ’ |
| 20 | A flight of alarmed mallards rose and I counted 25 before a second similar flock and then a third took to the air . |
| 21 | Well as I say I went out and erm I thought , well Jill phoned and she said at the time my mum had got a boy that was sleeping rough down the sandpits . |
| 22 | Adele phoned and she said to phone you . |
| 23 | Richard phoned and she told him about it , omitting the part about her offer of a donation . |
| 24 | that was the first time we had an inkling there was anything , and that was the Sunday before we moved and he said do you mind if I come and bring the shed up and then I can stop in there and I go and have , a , anyway , he came with Alan and she made you a cup of coffee did n't she ? |
| 25 | Jenna moved and he let her go at once , coming lithely to his feet and helping her up . |
| 26 | Since just before I moved and it triggered it off . |
| 27 | The muscles of his arms and chest were rippling as he moved and she felt a hot flush creeping over her body . |
| 28 | You see Shakira and Michael Caine divorced and you say , ‘ Jesus Christ , he was talking about how happy they were three weeks ago ’ . ’ |
| 29 | All the changes that were made underlined trends already evident before Fulton reported and none made any basic difference to the civil service . |
| 30 | Her hand trembled and she clamped it hard against her chest until the attack of nerves had subsided a little . |