Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but you 've got a very nice way of actually listening and you 'll actually learn far more about people by listening than actually talking so erm I found that quite picked up and pinpoint areas contact er eye contact , that was good , stayed in control , not too pushy yeah . |
| 2 | Q I recently became the owner of a pond which I planted and then left for a few weeks before I put the fish in . |
| 3 | ‘ But I thought that only referred to KITS ! ’ |
| 4 | then I fell and bloody stretched my groin ! |
| 5 | This was by far the most fertile area I had as yet seen in the Danakil country , and it was dotted with small villages of mat-covered huts . |
| 6 | But he was alright you know what I mean with the , I never never really knew want , there were lots of things that I wanted and never got of course but I never really , I could never say I wanted , and I never went hungry , not even at any time , you know . |
| 7 | Then , against all her better instincts , she stopped and slowly turned to look back down Lyra Street . |
| 8 | She gulped and almost choked . |
| 9 | As I watched she turned and almost floated on light footsteps into the hall then through the lounge door . |
| 10 | At the end she turned and almost trotted back to her stall , jumping quite freely over the gutter . |
| 11 | She scowled and almost decided not to open it . |
| 12 | She swallowed and almost pleaded , ‘ You would n't seriously take that money away from me ? ’ |
| 13 | Catching his eye again , she blinked and quickly looked away . |
| 14 | Well then her mother died last Feb. with some awful cancer and her daughter had been beside her when she died and probably learnt then about the secret which must have burdened her poor mother 's life for so many years . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to see you washed and almost dried by the time I come down . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Before departing , we ate and then headed off to the Crucible Theatre for the evening . |
| 18 | We felt that really needed to be considerably punchier to attract attention and we would have thought that it really needed to be ‘ New Launch gets Canbord council market a tough new policy ’ . |
| 19 | Ted who is from Northern Ireland and Joan from Aberdeen were both in the RAF where they met and finally married in 1952 . |
| 20 | On August 8th , they tried and almost succeeded in assassinating the British High Commissioner in Palestine , Sir Harold Macmichael , and killed ten police constables in the process . |
| 21 | Above all , they educated and eventually apprenticed young paupers , ensuring in theory that they themselves should not in turn need poor relief in adulthood ; thus Shoreditch had a so-called Nursery at Enfield specifically for the care and education of destitute children . |
| 22 | The nurses were well trained in dealing with rich patients who were used to doing as they pleased and often disliked accepting the discipline of routine ; they knew that the very old , the alcoholics , and the more than slightly batty patients ( called ‘ eccentric ’ ) had to be carefully supervised . |
| 23 | Darod women they raped and often killed too . |
| 24 | Meanwhile the I R A in a statement from Dublin have admitted they shot and seriously wounded an army careers officer in North London yesterday evening , and they 've warned of further attacks in Britain . |
| 25 | Although their dress was not equipped to deal with soaking weather and although they may have been expected to turn back at the sight of such greyness , they continued and even displayed some sense of enjoyment at the discomfort each was experiencing . |
| 26 | again , they closed and then reopened . |
| 27 | They gripped and savagely twisted . |
| 28 | He stabbed and slightly wounded five students and the principal . |
| 29 | Not that Caribbean parents are totally without sporting involvements : there are rare exceptions in the form of Ray Tabi 's father whom he disowned but still acknowledged as his ‘ first lead into boxing ’ ; and the father of heavyweight Howard Henlan had also been a boxer and was instrumental in stimulating his son 's interest . |
| 30 | While the others went on to further success he fought and eventually won a battle against alcoholism , but his writing partnership with Cleese did not survive it , and , at his own choice , he was not a member of the Python film company Prominent Features . |