Example sentences of "[adj] and [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was young and Scottish and I thought I was the greatest . |
| 2 | She wished she could confide in Ella , but it was far too risky and she knew she would feel worse if anyone in the house knew about the baby . |
| 3 | It was risky and she knew it . |
| 4 | I complained to Northumbrian Water about this and they gave me a very dusty answer . |
| 5 | Some of the characters that people produce from this and they did them like Parkinson did , a Rolling Stone ball J , but outlined in drop shadow . |
| 6 | But the UK had never had a product like this and they needed it , ’ says John Bartic , visiting professor at Strathclyde University and joint chief executive of Bartle Bogle Hegarty ( BBH ) , the agency appointed to handle the launch and subsequent roll-out . |
| 7 | But we talk about this and we said we 're cutting the shopping down , I 'm not going shopping . |
| 8 | Alec Home obtained this and himself read it out . |
| 9 | I thought it showed a gross lack of understanding on her part to have made a comment like this and it made me doubt whether she understood the complexity of the situation . |
| 10 | He knew all this and he knew I knew it . |
| 11 | and then he 's , he 's going out and they 're coming like that direction and he 's looked round and he 's seen the soldier , doing it , he 's gone and this is how I did it and then he put his , like this and he stuck his hands up and as his done that he 's got shot through the body from the side , what 's |
| 12 | He then accepted this and he told me he was going to pay me the other £2,500 in Turkey in Turkish money . ’ |
| 13 | I pretended to ignore this and he said something in German after me which I took to mean : ‘ You must be a very dull fellow if you do n't think that sort of thing funny . ’ |
| 14 | Mr Broadhurst was very particular about this and he took it extremely seriously . |
| 15 | Re remote control yes , well my son has one of those he has an electric garage door on his house , and a copper frisked him before he went in last season cos he , he 's a younger bloke and er he said what 's this and he pulled it out of his pocket , he said it 's to open my garage door with he said what do you think it is a death ray or something yeah . |
| 16 | So , I played this and I taught myself and I had , I played at England and all over for oth , a ladies team , played a on a man 's team and er , the we , the west and that , . |
| 17 | she told them that , that 's mine , she told them that I did n't think much of this and I thought it was a rip off |
| 18 | I knew this and I knew it was a weakness in him and I should not put up with it . |
| 19 | Er the market traders er are up in arms about this and I found them er in the process of trying to get a petition together but it it was n't put together right , they were just getting people to sign blank pieces of paper . |
| 20 | But at least my goals were clear and I knew what I wanted . |
| 21 | The first local man who can be described as a manufacturer was Thomas Dunkley , who was born in 1802 and who began his working life as a shoemaker ; in 1851 William Dunkley was employing fifty men and twenty women and concentrating on a range of cheaper shoes . |
| 22 | This time he seemed ill at ease and jumpy and I noticed his face was slick with perspiration when he spun to greet me . |
| 23 | The best time to visit is in stormy conditions when the birds are on the wing , but the day we went was calm and we saw them only sitting on their nests . |
| 24 | And God was faithful and I passed my exams . |
| 25 | We concluded by singing the carol O Come all ye Faithful and I gave them a blessing . |
| 26 | But he was OK and he sent her a big kiss . |
| 27 | She might lose him but for now he was as enslaved as she was and Maggie caressed him as he caressed her until his kisses grew more demanding and he turned her beneath him again . |
| 28 | Karen realised that her goal was to find a job which was challenging and interesting and which provided her with opportunities for foreign travel . |
| 29 | I felt my hand touch something feathery and I pulled it out to see what it was . |
| 30 | At first it all seemed dreadfully wrong and we did what our family always do in such situations ; we were facetious . |