Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Windows 3 arrived and bang ! — suddenly there was a huge Windows spreadsheet market and Microsoft began to look very smart . |
| 2 | When pictures of Indian sweet shops were shown , the English and West Indian children present sneered and made vomiting noises while the Asians watched in silent embarrassment . |
| 3 | I know when we 've er sold the house , when our children all went and left us , the house was for three bedrooms , right , and I , I said to my husband I do n't want to stay here because they built the school outside behind our er , erm back yard , and every , all the rubbish that kids throw threw over and I said to him I do n't want to stay now kids , kids gone , children gone leave , left home , got married and went to off , I said I do n't want to live here , I do n't want to retire to , to stay at home and listen to the kids at school all day long and have the rubbish thrown over the hedge |
| 4 | On bucking Broadway the cabs all bitched and beefed , ferrying robots , bad dogs , uptown , downtown . |
| 5 | The exhibition , curated by Peter Hamilton in close association with the photographer , will also show contact sheets and publications in which the photographs first appeared and provide an opportunity to assess the work of one of the finest photographers of the twentieth century ( 18 Apr. –21 June ) . |