Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] and [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way . |
| 2 | Yeah it 's a I would guess that this er we you know , when they come down and the strips and they go back up again , it looks as if perhaps that 's what 's happened here because the the rope has sort of got this twist in it and one imagines that when they jump down it 's not quite er er right and so perhaps he 's on his way back up again . |
| 3 | It means money for the clubs and we have a tremendously committed and talented unit who genuinely care about the game . ’ |
| 4 | Richard wanted me to book thirty shows in the clubs and I did . |
| 5 | The fireplace was the centre of a living room where you looked into the flames and you relaxed in front of them and saw images . |
| 6 | He went on gazing into the flames and she knew his thoughts were too far away for her words to reach him . |
| 7 | Ryker loomed at her through the flames and she hurled the water both at him and at the fire . |
| 8 | He had to go down the mines and he stuck it out . |
| 9 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 10 | So , when Fisher Fine Art closed down , they asked us to take on some of the artists and we decided to try out Gwen Hardie whom I think is promising . |
| 11 | We made the mistake of not putting in the trees before the hedges and it 's taken them seven or eight years to get going because it 's so exposed . |
| 12 | Subsequently the scientists had advised the local environmental health officer of the dangers and he closed the water . |
| 13 | Over the years , we 've taken the risk to increase the court 's costs , erm , where we 've got agreed pro er , principles , and we 've b we 've been able to go to the courts and they 've agreed with us , for instance , standard fees for overloaded vehicle cases , we charge seventy pounds a time . |
| 14 | Thus crime statistics are produced by the police and the courts and they represent no more than the opinions of the individuals involved . |
| 15 | Things like false alarm calls and so on , have been through the courts and we 've been stopped from doing that . |
| 16 | Even so , it was equally true that huge sums had been lost in the courts and he called to mind a case from the text books , when a million dollar had been forfeited because of the misplaced comma . |
| 17 | All this activity alerted the Germans and they sent out patrols to locate the SAS . |
| 18 | The man might have seen us , Vern and me — he was trying to do a rough count , I could see his lips — but there were some screaming kids trying to push in behind the Germans and he had to go and sort them out . |
| 19 | Brin was issued with false documents to fool the Germans and he worked for 5 months with the resistance , helping allied servicemen to escape along the so called Comet line ; a 1,500 mile route across Europe from Holland through Belgium and France , on through Spain to the safety of Gibraltar . |
| 20 | Brin was issued with false documents to fool the Germans and he worked for 5 months with the resistance , helping allied servicemen to escape along the so called Comet line ; a 1,500 mile route across Europe from Holland through Belgium and France , on through Spain to the safety of Gibraltar . |
| 21 | He said that He used to tell me about his country that you know it was taken over by the Russians and then it 'd be taken over by the Germans and You know what I mean . |
| 22 | And the birds and he thinks it 's time to get up or something . |
| 23 | But still the habit of flying north for the summer persisted among the birds and it has remained to this day , even though the journey is no longer a few miles , but several hundred . |
| 24 | Oh it was yes , I mean y when you take now erm er a boatman , I mean , and he , he like today well they ring up , I mean today I know the Ipswich Port Authority they lay the phone on the houses and they pay for it for 'em |
| 25 | Yes , we just went round the houses and we said to the people , you know , why we was getting nicked , and they just signed their names . |
| 26 | we 've got , is at the back of the house right , and then it goes up there , then that is the houses and it goes down to the sewer in the road , so er |
| 27 | I mean — um — I 'm phoning to let you know , because I 've finished the plans and I did n't know whether to send them or — ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Willie can do the illustrations and I think you 'd better be Editor , Carrie , ’ suggested Zach . |
| 29 | He had taken her to the woods and she sucked his cock and he screwed her on a bed of moss and soft earth . |
| 30 | He was walking in the woods and he saw three men . |