Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got O and he got i |
| 2 | Two minutes later Zurich area control centre asked Base whether they had an aircraft flying outbound towards the Hochwald beacon ( ten miles south of the airfield ) as they had an unidentified trace . |
| 3 | If they , they got they got piecework or they got th th the , they get either piecework or they get so much for the job so much , an hourly rate for the job . |
| 4 | Capriati showed a little bit of rust from an eight-week lay-off , but her big first serve consistently registered 100mph and she said : ‘ I felt a lot better in the second set , I got into it a lot more . ’ |
| 5 | Bill Clinton had gone for his inaugurations now President of the United States so John high U K John and he met Colin and we had about two sort of erm semi heads of state battling in the what went on . |
| 6 | Joshua , in order to be friendly , asked Harvey if he had heard of Clemenceau 's remark about Lloyd George , made at the Paris Peace Conference after the Kaiser 's War ? |
| 7 | A concern with theological questions has sometimes prompted new lines of scientific inquiry , as when Richard Bentley ( 1662–1742 ) , wishing to use the latest science to defend his Christian theism , asked Newton whether he thought it possible that the frame of the world could have been produced , from a uniform distribution of matter , by mechanical principles alone . |
| 8 | In passing , Boswell asked McQueen whether he felt content as a clergyman on Skye , and the reverend man answered — or so Boswell interprets — that much of his satisfaction with his lot derived from his Skye ancestry . |
| 9 | Terry admired it and asked Sarah if she had another copy , and she said casually , ‘ Yes . |
| 10 | I asked Gary and he said he 'd packed it in ages ago , and so did young Bean . |
| 11 | ‘ I never met Barney but I caught sight of the other one once , scuttling across the yard like a nervous rabbit . |
| 12 | I asked Frankie when I had pushed through to him . |
| 13 | ‘ Are you a Catholic ? ’ he asked Donna as she brought out the drinks . |
| 14 | ‘ I was so sure I got silver that I congratulated Lance and climbed out of the pool , ’ he commented as this one Gold medal verdict more than any helped speed acceptance of the touch-pad timing that has now become standard . |
| 15 | Owen distrusted castles unless he had had the ordering of them and the garrisoning for a year or more ; there was infinitely more safety in the hills , because the hills were his castle and not another man 's , and could not be betrayed or easily taken by storm . |
| 16 | Magistrates said they could disqualify him from driving and asked Elsworth if he needed his licence for his job . |
| 17 | I overheard Didi and you talking this morning … ’ |
| 18 | yeah , that 's true it does show ya that it can grow though do n't it , not the hair I mean AI AIDS you know if you shave somebody head and got AIDS and you shave his head , he cuts them both , that 's it , two people 's got AIDS just like that . |
| 19 | He was quite frank about the whole thing , told us H. had given him a fiver to turn up , asked Madge if she wanted to go through with it , which of course she did n't . |
| 20 | We made mention that we 've already submitted something in writing . |
| 21 | He put the back of his hand on each forehead and asked Nellie if they 'd complained about pains in the ear . |
| 22 | And the other ones look at him , and they sort of look in their cups and going er , how comes we got blood and you got water ? |
| 23 | Earlier Romantic interests in dream , haunting and death were revivified by Odilon Redon 's lithographs and drawings and transposed into a mawkish fascination with human decollation and disembodiment ( a prescient subject of much Surrealist interest later ) , witness perhaps of his desire to escape from the strictures of the body where only material limitation and disease existed — the concerns of eschatology , sexuality and mysticism certainly haunted Redon as they do so much Symbolist thought . |
| 24 | When they had exhausted politics , Julia asked David whether he had seen the recent report in The Times about the Allied commission which had been investigating Italians who had helped escaping prisoners of war . |
| 25 | I asked Pat if it had been love at first sight . |
| 26 | John was supposed to come and meet me from work to carry my heavy shopping and then changed plans and he had just walked in with JONATHAN ( proper name JIMMY ) . |
| 27 | I mean I wouldn't 've minded if she said come up the house like and she mentioned Cardiff but I 've gone so fat I do n't wan na go ! |
| 28 | This bias was particularly strong during our Pre-Campaign Wave in March when Prime Minister Thatcher visited Moscow but it continued at a reduced level throughout the final campaign . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , I phoned Adai before I came here . |
| 30 | and I 've only yo mentioned , well you mentioned money because you mentioned Harold Wilson |