Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , the sorts of holidays Rose and I usually go on would n't have been up-market enough for George . ’ |
| 2 | Cos the other day Dawn phoned and we never heard . |
| 3 | And yesterday the princess 's lower lip trembled and she nervously turned away as Sebastian sang the poignant opening lines of the 1989 hit , Right Here Waiting For You . |
| 4 | His hands trembled and he constantly looked to Louise for advice and support . |
| 5 | But I was gon na tell you about there was one day I was at for money and I 'm coming up the road , and here this chap was standing in the road and er kind of thumbing a lift , so I says to him , I stopped and I often lift people in the road but er after he got into the , I had an old Bradford van at the time , and he said er , I said to him , I says , are you on a hiking holiday ? |
| 6 | She moved but she still kept glancing about . |
| 7 | I know you will he disappointed but I really would like you to give me a change . " |
| 8 | The lights went yellow as he approached but he just managed to squeeze through , to a chorus of horn blasts . |
| 9 | Very great odium T. Poole incurred by bringing me here … when Wordsworth came & he likewise by T. Poole 's agency settled here — You can not conceive the tumult , calumnies , & apparatus of threatened persecutions which this event has occasioned round about us . |
| 10 | And how many biscuit firms came and we still bought from every one of them . |
| 11 | When midnight came and I still was n't home , Naylor came looking for me . ’ |
| 12 | He came and he just slashed the railways you see . |
| 13 | so it shows that er , you know , the globe is warming up , even in Russia where I went , my mother , where I , where I was staying at er Dunyask , there was five metre snow sometimes in the , it , it came and it just blocked your windows , it blocked your doors and you were inside the house and you could n't get out |
| 14 | We got on well from the moment we met and we still see each other from time to time , and talk for hours about the good old days . |
| 15 | It was only after a passionate entreaty by his relative Lady Frances Wingfield , who lived in St. Martin 's , that Cromwell relented and he later presented the widowed countess of Burghley with a portrait of himself . |
| 16 | From the beginning , I never asked and he never said . |
| 17 | … In a court it would be so easy if I was on the other side to get up and say that in respect of eight of the conditions ‘ We complied and we only contravened the suspended solids condition and we 're very sorry it was 30,000 p.p.m. but you 're not gon na cane us for that are you , Mr Magistrate ? |
| 18 | Yes , and she phoned me and she said I feel as though I dropped out of the bottom of the world she said , you know , I just do n't see anybody , I said well of course you were working on Mondays , you see she used to have Mondays to herself and I would often go round on a Monday afternoon and , we , we could talk , but that 's gone and I said I ca n't run in at half past five when you get home from school and chat to you because Ned will be coming home at six and I do n't want to be there all that often when he 's there erm its you know , its just happened and I also thought to myself and I 'm probably going to move a lot further away then Fen Lane . |
| 19 | The children were terrified when the flood happened and I just do not think they would want to come back . ’ |
| 20 | Mr Gibson said : ‘ My wife Pat phoned to tell me what happened and I just packed my bag and got the first flight . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But nothing happened and I never heard from them . ’ |
| 22 | I liked her , we were starting to go out , then all this happened and I never saw her again . |
| 23 | The next morning the same thing happened and I still had n't the courage to tell her . |
| 24 | Something happened and she just said it , then she hit me and I had to hit her back . |
| 25 | He did n't change his clothes too often , and when he did he just picked up whatever was around him — Eva 's jumpers , Dad 's waistcoats , and always my shirts , which he borrowed and I never saw again . |
| 26 | Again Aggie sighed and she half closed her eyes before answering , ‘ No , child , I 'm not vexed with you , but , as I said , I 've got things to see to . |
| 27 | As a player with Manchester United and England , the 37-year-old university graduate never hid and he certainly does n't intend to start now . |
| 28 | The regulars and the heavy mob from Fleet Street arrived and we just managed to catch the last train to Cambridge . |
| 29 | His wife , Sarah , was also a canoeist before they met but they now face the problem of babysitters for their two youngsters . |
| 30 | The Portsmouth defence creaked but it never cracked as Andy Mutch and Sean Taylor tried to get a goal . |