Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun prp] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The carelessness of the creators ( for not noticing the mess their employees were making ) and of the people who looked after the food meant animals , plants and insects were accidentally given Herakleophorbia so they grew . |
| 2 | By now I think mum and dad had gone home but they 'd rang Ian and he 'd come straight to the hospital and sat with me . |
| 3 | I 've finally forgiven Jeff and I 'm delighted at the engagement . ’ |
| 4 | They are strays , having been carried here by the glacier that once occupied Crummackdale as it retreated at the end of the Ice Age , scouring the ground as it departed and bringing down the boulders from their place of origin higher in the valley . |
| 5 | So far no party has really impressed Jim but he will vote for the Tories on April 9 , more to keep Labour out than the Conservatives in . |
| 6 | Australian DJ Brian White told his listeners that a drunken journalist had approached Kylie after she had been presented with an award and asked her if she felt ashamed to have won it in a room full of so many talented people . |
| 7 | Bath had a good long look at the videos and soon saw that little variations of this move could break opposition defences just as easily as the blasting back-row scrum moves with which Australia had devastated England when they so mistakenly toured Australia last year . |
| 8 | Would my neighbours have let Lou and me have Sophie and Ben ? |
| 9 | Quite what the inhabitants made of that is perhaps left buried in history but it must have impressed Ella for they were married in 1918 . |
| 10 | The penalty seemed pretty clear-cut and it was a stroke of luck that they 'd just substituted Fashanu as he is their usual penalty taker ( pretty reliable from what I can recall ) . |
| 11 | They both seemed to have forgotten Jenna and she was glad because she could feel tears welling up inside , almost a feeling of panic . |
| 12 | Within a year he had so impressed Telford that he was invited to become his assistant in London , where he spent the next three years , until his father 's illness in the summer of 1824 prompted Telford to send him back to Inverness ; two months later his father died . |
| 13 | ‘ David , this is Comfort , of whom you have heard Anthony and me speak so often . ’ |
| 14 | We 've probably disturbed Edward as it is . ’ |
| 15 | Last but not least , Keith is an historian who has frequently visited Mexico and it does n't faze him that I , as a Mexican , should come to his country to write about its artists . |
| 16 | I have n't even seen Bret since I was a bit drunk |
| 17 | Now I have seen Martin and they are fifteen well built |
| 18 | I 've seen Lopez and I 'm just going . ’ |
| 19 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |
| 20 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 21 | I am not even going to attempt to tell you why I was so attired , or guess at why fate should have made Donald and his equally well-equipped companions walk across that particular piece of wilderness at precisely the same time as me . |
| 22 | Well done Robert and you get five hundred pounds . |
| 23 | but I , I 'd never get them done , and I mean I 'd fed Matthew and I shouted down and I said look you 'll have to come and get him dressed cos I 've got dinners to put up yet |
| 24 | It was dark and the lamps were lit and they might not have seen Sesostris if he had not had to step aside to avoid a porter with a heavy bundle on his back and stand for a moment in the light from a shop front . |
| 25 | A problem has beset Cyprio as they attempt to launch this new ‘ EEC standard ’ U/V . |
| 26 | She had worshipped Hendry as she watched him on TV marching to his second Embassy world title last April and made nightly notes in her diary detailing her adulation . |
| 27 | Was er marvellously done Sharon and we got the gist of it . |
| 28 | Jacob had not seen Esau since he had cheated him out of his birthright , twenty years previously . |
| 29 | So far he has visited Durham and he hopes to see the Lake District , Whitby and South Park , Darlington before he leaves . |
| 30 | I think Frank was glad to have met Ryan and I hoped he was also slightly impressed with Hellen 's current friend , his future son-in-law . |