Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data could pop up in boxes around the screen , and in due course graphics , mice and icons led us into the wimps era ( window , icon , menu , pointer ) . |
| 2 | MacDonald read it to the members of the Cabinet ( imposing further conditions before a loan would be given ) . |
| 3 | His talents , his wealth , and the changing times raised him to the court of assistants of the Levant Company from 1644 to 1648 , and in 1645 Parliament appointed him to the Goldsmiths ' Hall committee , through which Royalists redeemed their sequestrated estates by paying compositions . |
| 4 | Well no the , the owner , the baker reported them to the police . |
| 5 | After some time Jean advised me in the words above to go out and be alone with God and express my renewed affection for him . |
| 6 | When the White House lawyer first tried to debrief Reagan on what he knew of the affair , the president was said to have told him stories of Hollywood ; when journalists badgered him about the deals he had half-wittingly struck with Israel and Iran in August 1985 , he replied amiably : ‘ Everybody that can remember what they were doing on August 8th 1985 , raise your hand . ’ |
| 7 | Scott grabbed him by the lapels and hauled him to his feet . |
| 8 | Hitch grabbed him by the lapels , pulling him close . |
| 9 | As the Dwarfs moved south Goblins watched them from the hills , reporting their movements by means of oily smoke signals and throbbing war drums . |
| 10 | The wind grabbed him under the arms and flipped him outwards and back as it had the torn raven banner already . |
| 11 | Her half-sister took her to the police . |
| 12 | ‘ So your mummy saw me with the boys , did she ? |
| 13 | Yeah , having some dinner , well we did n't have any did we , cos mummy took you to the pictures with nanny |
| 14 | But a witness saw him outside the premises . |
| 15 | Even if a band that I liked did this , I 'm sure that it would not make me gay ( And even if the power of rock introduced you to the delights of homosexuality , who cares , eh ? |
| 16 | After Richard reminded me of the problems I was about to face following that first flight , I was n't looking forward to the next flying lesson . |
| 17 | As all areas were initially classified as class I and II , the EPA left it to the states to redesignate some class II areas as class III , or even to upgrade such areas to class I ( Stern , 1977 ) . |
| 18 | However , resentment from those who had learned the trade through the proper apprenticeship forced him into a debtors ' prison in 1738 . |
| 19 | Hitchcock wanted her for The Birds but she turned him down . |
| 20 | It 's alleged Gary Corbett held her by the legs and swung her against a wall at the flat in which they all lived at Forest Green in Nailsworth , near Stroud in Gloucestershire . |
| 21 | ‘ Two years ago , Adai told you about the holes in the AOL . |
| 22 | When Jessica poked her in the ribs and swore they were coming for them , she hardly raised her head . |
| 23 | The Roman defences were still in place , and the Normans used them as the foundations of their medieval fortress . |
| 24 | Mr Crowden told them of the terms of the will and suggested that Violet 's legacy seemed a poor reward and that it might be improved . |
| 25 | Does he really believe that the woman who spent an hour asking questions would have passively accepted everything a female consultant told her with no queries ? |
| 26 | Felipe 's possessive attitude rid her of the attentions of Peter Rainford and when Felipe offered to show them Ana 's skills neither of them looked overjoyed . |
| 27 | The Presidium of the Czech National Council approved the draft on Feb. 12 , describing it as " the basic point of departure for the talks … on the final wording of the agreement " , but the Presidium of the Slovak National Council rejected it on the grounds that the Slovak delegation had made too many concessions . |
| 28 | The Fat Controller addressed me over the sounds of her orgasm , paying no attention to them at all . |
| 29 | Keats placed him among the stars , where Keats himself , for similar reasons , was to be placed by Shelley . |
| 30 | Although the inventory establishes that Martin made oboes , bassoons , musettes and piccolos , and Borjon included them among the woodwinds made by Jean and his sons , there are no known surviving examples . |