Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just taking aye , just songs that I liked and I just er take them off tapes and , and records , and I just write them down , |
| 2 | When we stopped and slowly turned , with our bulging eyes in place , the gang scattered with such blood-curdling screams that we wondered if we had n't overdone it , and felt sufficiently ashamed of ourselves never to use the eyes again . |
| 3 | So marked were my anxieties that I buried that experience for several years . |
| 4 | There they spend the summer in a state of suspended animation , sustained by the fat reserves that they accumulated when they were caterpillars . |
| 5 | Joanne 's commitment to the next 12 months will leave her little time for the hobbies that she enjoyed before tennis came along . |
| 6 | Although a library committee of some sort existed before the project invitation , the head reports that : It was no more than three of four people who were simply monitoring the use of the library and keeping an eye on the books that we needed and the way children used the library . |
| 7 | I like the books , the original books that I had when I was a little rather than the new books . |
| 8 | We then moved on and expanded we expanded we brought with with a minimum of two words to do with each of those twelve words that we generated and we did this in a much faster way a much more creative way a right brain activity . |
| 9 | I pulled my skirt up a little but he said he 'd have to see higher than that to make sure my legs were n't bowed at the knees so I did as I was told . |
| 10 | With his old-fashioned grace Murphy even mentioned in at least two speeches that he wondered whether the World Cup , and the impassioned pursuit of it by some countries , was really a good thing after all . |
| 11 | A lot of clients that I had when |
| 12 | She brought her knee up between his legs and he gasped and doubled over , pushing her away from him . |
| 13 | Then I think the erm the chairs , Malcolm phoned erm was it the homeless , was it Shelter , one of those organizations and they came and picked them up . |
| 14 | He made toys that parodied her innocent amusements and those of her brothers and she trembled when he raised his leonine voice . |
| 15 | The scales fell from his eyes and he saw that over many long years of prehistory , all trackways were in straight lines marked out by experts on a sighting system . |
| 16 | She jabbed two fingers into his eyes and he screamed and rolled off her , trying to rise to his feet , blinded by her attack . |
| 17 | For a brief moment there was recognition in his eyes and he reached for he hand , pulling back before the contact was made . |
| 18 | He closed his eyes and she saw that the movement of his chest had stopped . |
| 19 | The question was casual but Rachel thought she detected a flicker of interest in Louise 's blue eyes and she wondered if the stories about herself and David had reached the welfare office yet or whether she was simply becoming paranoid where he was concerned . |
| 20 | Erm and the meeting felt that it asks it asks for for views from local parties and we felt that the amount of money |
| 21 | But what I did was , right before we started recording , I purchased a 1969 all-original Marshall 100 watt stack with the original speakers and we used that for most of the record for the rhythm tracks . |
| 22 | Janet posted a letter for me last week to a friend who I worked with at Ipswich , she was one of the girls behind the counter and at the moment they , her and her husband , he , he , he , he was on the , he finished up but he started as a lad in the kitchen but he finished up as a chef on the dining cars and they married and er and they 've got er two children erm they 're married to and , and we kept , we 've kept in touch with each other for sixty years |
| 23 | I was up , and I went to the shops and I came and there 's a wee boy which used to live in the flats , and he says hello Nelly . |
| 24 | If there 's a positive relationship okay I d I mean that was just recapping something I said before so if you got it you 've probably got it down twice now Okay , if you knew that there was a positive relationship between two variables and we said that their score on one of the variables was high then we would expect , although not necessarily , because w it 's not true in every case but it i there 's a general trend , we would expect that their score on the other variable would also be high . |
| 25 | Goldberg and Lewis sampled very young babies between 6 and 13 months and they observed that mothers of female babies were more protective of them , keeping them close to their side , cuddling them a lot and that the babies liked to play quietly with soft toys and absorbing tasks . |
| 26 | I 'd been in there four months and they came and told me they 'd gone to America . |
| 27 | The work was heart-breaking because of the shortage of homes and it showed that many old people were living in distress . |
| 28 | The air pressure forced me to my knees and I watched while the wind screwed great oak trees out of the earth and then dropped them in a mess of green leaves and splintered wood . |
| 29 | Tom stopped and put his finger to his lips and they stood and watched it hopping in and out among the changing leaves . |
| 30 | In the other case the husband of a client asked to have the support worker withdrawn after four months because he felt that his wife suspected him of having an affair with the support worker . |