Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that one was and I heard a year ago but I never saw it till the bus driver I went with some years ago up to John O'Groats . |
| 2 | Of course I failed on all counts and so I was ignored most of the time — passed over . |
| 3 | He said of course I scampered through these bull rushes , they never saw me they never caught me and they never ever knew who it was who 'd done it , see . |
| 4 | Of course I refused with much indignation , and he grew very angry . |
| 5 | All the money I earned in that period my husband 's cousin took away from me . |
| 6 | As I stripped off and dipped my arms into the steaming bucket I wished with all my heart that the porcine uterus was a little short thing and not this horrible awkward shape . |
| 7 | The only wheel I found on this trip is still very much in business , grinding corn on two pairs of stones . |
| 8 | somebody 's Chronicle I borrowed for some reason |
| 9 | I actually wanted someone to share the excruciating sad pleasure I got from some of the words … . |
| 10 | But then avowed with a great deal of feeling , ‘ I sorely needed somebody 's help when , with daylight I returned to that hotel and discovered you 'd taken a train back to Mariánské Láznë ! ’ |
| 11 | Nineteen fifty one , we moved in , er and , I 've had , you 're not the first person to come all round here , this house , they used , they used to come round in shows from the Corporation all visitors used to come , they used to say , right Jean can we bring them round we 've had people from Germany and everywhere and being in the architect 's department I fell for all this you know I had |
| 12 | In her mind she went to that island and it was there that the ‘ shower ’ played upon her cancer cells ‘ and washed them away . ’ |
| 13 | Visitors were not welcomed upstairs , and if Mrs Bostock haughtily insisted on the sovereign nature of her companionship she met with little encouragement in that belief . |
| 14 | Did you see you with that gas that advert she did with that poor woman ! |
| 15 | In the last chapter we looked at some of the effects on people of knowing that a death is likely to occur and some of the anticipated grief reactions that can be recognized . |
| 16 | It is interesting that the dose-response effect we found in these coeliac disease children is similar to that found in the single gluten challenge study by Ciclitira et al , which showed no evidence of jejunal mucosal damage after the infusion of 10 mg of gliadin , minimal changes after 100 mg of gliadin , and noticeable histological changes after an additional 500 mg challenge . |
| 17 | There is a footnote from the editors : ‘ We now unreservedly withdraw any recommendation we made about this book . ’ |
| 18 | We were talking about budget decisions and after the microphones closed at the end of the programme they commented about that home in Blenheim Road in Kidlington , and to them it was n't healthy . |
| 19 | They put up a prize at the awards ceremony they 're prepared to do all the art work for nothing or at cost price for the awards ceremony they laid on this evening for us now if three people turn up at their evening they gon na say as we putting our money in the right organisation |
| 20 | In practice they occurred in less than a quarter of the cases recorded by Amnesty International since 1985 . |
| 21 | The white football he regarded as another non-starter . |
| 22 | Mrs Pouncey is at present editing his diaries , drawing attention to entries such as one for October 1949 , when , between 7.17 am and 12.25 pm he visited no less than twelve Roman churches , certainly with the intense concentration he devoted to each of the many visits they made to Italy together . |
| 23 | She had seen for herself the effect he had on many of his clients ; had herself been impressed by his ability to amuse them with his quick wit and entertaining anecdotes . |
| 24 | It never again had quite the effect it did on that day when Grom the Paunch of Misty Mountain was driven from the field , and , in truth , Gambo could n't quite remember that recipe to his dying day . |
| 25 | Thirty years afterwards Charles still felt deeply the humiliation he suffered at this time ; but unlike some little princes in similar situations , he lived , politically as well as literally , to fight another day . |
| 26 | Imagine how much time and effort would be required if each speaker had to establish the denotation of each term he produced on each occasion of use . |
| 27 | In all this writing the emphasis was usually very heavily , as in the past , on the obligation of the diplomat to defend jealously the honour of the sovereign he represented against any claim , any change in ceremonial , which might be construed as the slightest threat to it . |
| 28 | Vincent had grasped early on that his deep-seated , recurring fearfulness in the face of life was a condition he shared with many nineteenth-century artists . |
| 29 | ‘ The lady I spoke to that first time I rang up . |
| 30 | Then , in that mean , ill-lit corridor I collided with another prisoner being pushed the other way . |