Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We met that evening and she asked me straight out if I 'd be interested in an exclusive story : a scandal affecting a government minister . |
| 2 | Anyway , my ole man 'ad pissed orf an' I was a bit short o' money . |
| 3 | The second wicket , like the first , produced 109 runs and he made 85 of them off 77 balls . |
| 4 | trembling when he made that speech when he remember when he , remember when you , you were n't there , no you were n't there he was shaking like a leaf . |
| 5 | Garrick Morgan and Warwick Waugh were well matched by the Monmouthshire pair of Tony Rees and Mike Voyle yesterday , and the experienced Rod McCall made little difference when he came on to replace Morgan . |
| 6 | If you ask me he made bloody enquiry while he were here ! |
| 7 | In Europe we have one major set of structures , from Precambrian to Recent , which relate first to plates splitting and colliding approximately along the Atlantic line and to the later sea-floor spreading that produced that ocean as we see it today . |
| 8 | And she went away and produced that document after we 'd given her the brief . |
| 9 | You made quarter-hour points and you did n't know where the sergeant was going to pick you up . |
| 10 | His presence was immediately broadcast in no uncertain terms to all and sundry by the DJ 's who made exaggerated claims that they were being boarded by an unauthorised government vessel . |
| 11 | do you suppose they got that name because she was always |
| 12 | But I still got that feeling that we lost something . |
| 13 | George 's face registered total disbelief and he turned to the telephone . |
| 14 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 15 | ‘ Over the next couple of months he got his life together and he met this girl and they got engaged . |
| 16 | Er when Maureen met this girl and she found out she lived in Manchester common . |
| 17 | I met this man and I thought he was wonderful — so nice to me and everything when I first met him . |
| 18 | He quit French football when he was banned for throwing a ball at a referee , an incident allegedly compounded when he stared into the face of each member of the disciplinary committee and called them idiots , one by one . |
| 19 | And then you just got another pair and you put another pair like that until you had five . |
| 20 | It would be two weeks before she got another chance so she had to take it now whether Maggie was sober or not . |
| 21 | Well , I went home and I got another job and it , then I went back , I says can I have me card ? |
| 22 | I asked Brown Owl if we could sell the cakes that were left over and give the money to Blue Peter . |
| 23 | The school trip was an example of massive disorganized organization : every minute of every day was officially occupied , and Clara wasted some time before she realized that nobody in the whole world would care or even notice whether she attended each event or not . |
| 24 | I think erm Winston Churchill when he went for his Eton exam or the entrance exam to Eton or something and erm y'know they asked some question and he and he goes on and erm after five minutes he wrote his name , very neatly , right ? |
| 25 | SINGER Bobby Brown , asked this week whether he 's intimidated by new wife Whitney Houston 's vocal prowess , said : ‘ Let's just say I do n't sing in the shower any more . ’ |
| 26 | Then dad and I made some cakes and I put notices about the sale through the neighbours ' doors in Swadlincote in Derbyshire , where we live . |
| 27 | As soon as Paddington arrived Mr Grover made some cocoa and they settled down on the horse hair sofa at the back of the shop . |
| 28 | We made some changes and they worked and then we made some changes that did not work . |
| 29 | I made some comment and he bit my head off . |
| 30 | I made some bets and they came good . |