Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [noun] [conj] [pron] " 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 | I had the great advantage of being brought up by a really traditional , old-fashioned nanny , who saw us through numerous disasters , one of which was the very memorable moment during the blitz when we were taken to a very smart tea shop in Curzon Street , a place where nannies met each other and their charges were just kept in tow . |
| 3 | ( 1980 ) , produced little evidence that there really is a substantial difference between homes of different social classes in the quality of interaction that children experience with their parents . |
| 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 | But the league made little impact and there was more success with the Derry Unemployed Action Committee ( DUAC ) which involved NILP leftists as well as republicans . |
| 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 | do you suppose they got that name because she was always |
| 10 | But I still got that feeling that we lost something . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Over the next couple of months he got his life together and he met this girl and they got engaged . |
| 13 | Er when Maureen met this girl and she found out she lived in Manchester common . |
| 14 | I met this man and I thought he was wonderful — so nice to me and everything when I first met him . |
| 15 | In the pre-civil war period , one group of clerics and laymen who shared this approach and who thus opposed the confrontational policies of Laud and his followers , began to meet at the house of Lucius Cary , Lord Falkland , at Great Tew in Oxfordshire . |
| 16 | She expected some fury but none was forthcoming and she glanced across at him to find his eyes were fixed on the mountains , his face sombre . |
| 17 | And then you just got another pair and you put another pair like that until you had five . |
| 18 | It would be two weeks before she got another chance so she had to take it now whether Maggie was sober or not . |
| 19 | Well , I went home and I got another job and it , then I went back , I says can I have me card ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We made some changes and they worked and then we made some changes that did not work . |
| 26 | I made some comment and he bit my head off . |
| 27 | I made some bets and they came good . |
| 28 | It announced this week that it was adding a top rate of 12.5 p.c. to its new Premier Fix account . |
| 29 | The government announced this week that it planned to send 53 Japanese soldiers there next month , to help prepare for UN-sponsored elections . |
| 30 | The Washington Post of Nov. 21 gave prominence to Rafsanjani 's declarations and reported that " India announced this week that it will not sell a nuclear reactor to Iran , largely because of mounting international pressure " . |