Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like a flash I had laid him all out on the ground , |
| 2 | Jack Smith and his wife Maisie were pets who 'd known them all their lives . |
| 3 | I remembered how in England I had pitied them all tucked away in oblivion : Feathers , the first man of my course to go missing ; Johnny Soames whose aircraft I had watched skidding away from the formation on one of the early daylight raids over northern France . |
| 4 | Sleepless in Scotland she had walked it many times in her mind . |
| 5 | But if you were playing with a drummer who liked to give it some wallop , you 'd soon be lost in terms of volume , and that would piss you off a bit . |
| 6 | General Orsborn recognised both him and the young Australian who had given him such a memorable welcome to her homeland . |
| 7 | Was this really the girl who had thought it all so ‘ boring ’ a few weeks earlier ? |
| 8 | There were things that we had no more control over yet than the grass did over the developer who chose to plough it all under and build a factory on top . |
| 9 | I know that three days before they were killed , twenty-five people were invited to that house for the mass whipping of a dealer from Sunset Strip who 'd given them some bad dope . |
| 10 | By the end , by the end of the afternoon she 'd done it all . |
| 11 | And so , from 1958 onwards , these characters became my dolls , and their way , of life and the houses they inhabited became so real to me that it was quite a shock when I occasionally returned to the place which had started it all , Wood Green , near Witney . |
| 12 | ‘ My love , my love , ’ and was flooded by the days she had called him that . |
| 13 | No , Crawford , that was the name of the host ; she could distinctly remember Justin mentioning it before they 'd arrived here ; it was his wife who had invited them all — well , not all of them exactly , just Justin — ‘ Because she likes them young , ’ Justin had informed them , as they 'd piled into his old banger of a car . |
| 14 | On the day the telegram arrived from Southern Ferries , a close friend who had given me much encouragement now began to question my continuing any further . |
| 15 | He was excellent at charming wardrobe ladies , new young chorus members straight from music school , and surly , battered old musicians in the orchestra pit who had seen it all before . |
| 16 | She takes a sip of mineral water before launching into James Woods and his girlfriend , Sarah Owen : ‘ I 've a theory that James and his girlfriend had so many problems they had to turn it all on me . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The next minute he 'd picked them both up and thrown them out of the window . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm afraid I persuaded the woman I spoke to give me this address . |
| 19 | Grey eyes swept the outfit which had caused her some qualms , but it was modest compared to Nicky Kai 's , the oyster-coloured chiffon shirt collarless and slit to a point between her breasts , loose enough to leave them a mystery only occasionally glimpsed when she moved , dark nipples a shadowy suggestion . |
| 20 | There were so many ways she wanted to tell him this , all of them inadequate to express her feelings . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , they were a valuable addition to the services under control of the Commission who continued to operate them both in Leith and in the Firth of Forth . |
| 22 | She 'd lost count of the number of people who 'd asked her that ; lost count of the number of answers she 'd given . |
| 23 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 24 | One day last week we 'ad to get us own lunch , me young See-all-hear-all-say-nowt upstairs , and then I had to bellow to get him down t'elp or I 'd 'ave been stuck 'ere in this chair wi'out a sup or bite from dawn to dusk and beyond . |
| 25 | If the Government wo n't believe us when we tell them the truth , maybe they will now believe the people they paid to give them this report . |
| 26 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |
| 27 | I made one stipulation only to the Foreign Secretary , Sir Alec Douglas-Home , which was that my driver should not be the same amiable young man who had led me such a dance around Johannesburg . |
| 28 | Mike Barson , the man who 'd given them most of their best tunes , quit the group , spent . |
| 29 | Like there was this girl , she worked in the paper shop down the road , and there was this black kid who kept pestering her all the time , so we had to go down and sort him out . |
| 30 | Mosley and Joyce , however , were determined to make some gesture of defiance towards the growing crowd which had booed them all the way . |