Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [vb past] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 and she said David said he saw a few snow flakes .
2 Before raising Biggles we had a few failures with baby owls the shocking Barnys had abused .
3 Jean felt belittled ; for as long as the dance lasted she seemed no more to him than any girl there , but then he came round to her again and clasped her closely as they stepped it down the aisle between the lines of dancers .
4 Only 25% of Italians , for example , believed that they could influence national and local government , and 47% said they had no such influence .
5 She was n't his life : she was his youth ; Constanza says they had the same kind of public behaviour and as one gets older it counts .
6 By the time the train reached Ealing Broadway they had been in and out of every car and as the train returned they followed the same routine .
7 When they arrived at Ken 's bedside , Jack thought he looked the same as ever , but Mrs Lomax was both optimistic and decisive .
8 Unknown to them , she had been one of Tiller 's favourite leading ladies around 1906 , but when the work offers stopped she faced the same bleak future confronting all dancers who feel too old to dance .
9 With its varnished mahogany and gleaming brasswork fuselage it managed a few erratic hops but never got off the ground !
10 David Icke insists he made no such claim , and blames the media for turning him into a laughing-stock .
11 ‘ I thought it was food poisoning because I had prepared fish which I had not cooked properly and when the doctor arrived he thought the same way .
12 Police believe he died a few hours after he was abducted .
13 ‘ I suppose we should be flattered that Dinamo Tbilisi felt they needed a little help to get past us .
14 ‘ I suppose we should be flattered that Dinamo Tbilisi felt they needed a little help to get past us .
15 Whereupon Debenham 's counsel said he had no more questions to ask the actress .
16 The EC decided she had the same right to benefits as a man or a single woman .
17 ‘ Whether you were me or Jackie Milburn you got the same money , and it was n't much .
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