Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Map adds that he made a note of this observation " for it was merrily said , and truly " . |
| 2 | The Arundel-trained colt came to the course having shown up so well on his home gallops that he held a Royal Ascot date . |
| 3 | The story goes that he managed a round on the morning of the wedding and even , it is said , a few strokes later in the day . |
| 4 | ‘ But rumour goes that she had a very inferior , draughty little cave , and one hell of a climb to get to it . |
| 5 | He says that they heard a noise similar to an axe being dragged across the floor . |
| 6 | Another example of the rich and regal possibilities which religion offered Cnut is provided by a visit which he made to Glastonbury on 30 November of a year which may have been 1032 , when William of Malmesbury says that he laid a cloak decorated with peacocks on the tomb of Edmund Ironside . |
| 7 | Florence says that he held a meeting at London , and asked the witnesses of his agreement with Edmund whether the latter 's brothers and sons were entitled to succeed him . |
| 8 | He says that he stopped a van , the youths driving it ran off , inside were stolen goods . |
| 9 | Barbara says although she had a fantastic day , she will probably stick to making her own clothes in future : ‘ Trying on all those clothes was fun but it made me realise how tiring modelling — and shopping — really are . |
| 10 | so , anyway , I just , we 've got it down on the floor and I says if we had a brown suite |
| 11 | ‘ The problem is if there were a few kids out there who believed everything that Paul says and we did a really heavy religious or political song and some kid was influenced by it … it would be dangerous , ’ argues Ashley . |
| 12 | The girl who would only appear in school plays if she had a non-speaking part was now centre stage . |
| 13 | This road had a greater significance in past centuries when it was the regular route to Skye , the way taken by Dr Johnson and Boswell in their tour of exploration ; a glance at the map shows that it followed a direct line from Shiel Bridge to Broadford across the Kylerhea ferry . |
| 14 | The Ladder may lack the charm of some of the other works anthologised here but it was the first systematic and comprehensive account of the spiritual life to be written in English and its immediate popularity shows that it answered a real need . |
| 15 | As one last twist of fate for Dan Knight , his flight log shows that he flew a B–17 just one more time from Deenethorpe . |
| 16 | She bought it a year ago and recalls that it cost a great deal of money . |
| 17 | Parramatta headed a clutch of Aussie clubs willing to take Platt on long or short terms deals after he had a tremendous tour Down Under with the Lions this summer . |
| 18 | He wouldn'y take a poke o' soor plooms unless it had a pint o' heavy at the bottom . ’ |
| 19 | IBM Corp has been sued by E-Systems Inc , which alleges that it broke a contract for electronics work on an Air Force aircraft : according to the Dallas Morning News , E-Systems is seeking $65m in damages from IBM ; the dispute involves the Talon Combat II aircraft , which IBM is building with Lockheed Corp ; E-Systems signed a 1988 agreement to integrate and install equipment on the plane as an IBM subcontractor . |
| 20 | Certainly the Office states that he became a hermit " without his father 's knowledge and against his will … because he loved God more than his father in the flesh " . |
| 21 | One of the Oxford documents mentions that he had a wife , Celena . |
| 22 | When all the consequences of his account are added up , it transpires that he created a permanent and invaluable record of an ancient way of life — not at first as antique as he had hoped , but he was not ungratified at the glimpses of the past that he caught . |
| 23 | She does n't know any of their names , but she remembers that he had a long scar running right up his hand . |
| 24 | It seems that he had a breakdown on the way back and had to walk . |
| 25 | He concludes that they are suffering from fame displacement reversal syndrome , and hints that he had a pretty bloody awful childhood himself . |
| 26 | It appears that he had a recurring dream in which he was told , " Socrates , be an artist " , a command which he ignored at first , supposing that nothing could be a higher " art " than his own philosophizing , but eventually complied with by writing some poetry while waiting for death in prison . |
| 27 | Although it appears that she reached a peace with her father , she found herself constrained within that relationship ; she portrays several fathers who are sympathetic , and one especially who is repugnant . |
| 28 | ‘ Seems like he blew a fuse , chief . |
| 29 | The warning came after a woman in Yorkshire suffered skin burns when she used a bogus packet of Blue Horizon washing powder , which contained a caustic chemical . |
| 30 | Hall is philosophical about the sacrifices which a musical career demands , and feels that she had a ‘ fairly normal childhood ’ , and only felt deprived in her late teenage years , when ‘ the social life has to go , and you tend to form passing acquaintances rather than real friendships . ’ |