Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [vb infin] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accent made it sound a strange new game . |
| 2 | Caddis houses helped us take the previous step ; snail shells will help us take this one . |
| 3 | They did it , very slowly and tenderly , and then drove on again ; and then Boy made him stop the second time , in a layby with the first lorry headlights going past , and the man took Boy 's cock in his mouth again , and masturbated Boy again so that he came a second time , and then they drove again . |
| 4 | Personal experiences made them reject the new truism that the children of fatherless families become delinquent . |
| 5 | A jovial Indian lady struggling to stay inside her sari helped me find the Electoral Register covering Lee Metford Road and I ran a finger down the names to see if any rang a bell . |
| 6 | Only when he saw others smiling and laughing did he give the little barks . |
| 7 | Only for a brief moment while Merrill was changing her shoes did she know a fleeting reservation . |
| 8 | Boy did he have the last laugh . |
| 9 | Only now that he was safe did he feel a little black jet of fear rising in his chest , a gobbet of bile that filled his mouth , washing his teeth in acid . |
| 10 | Only when , in April , Elizabeth made it clear that he was the one Marian exile who would not be welcomed back to England did he accept the inevitable and come to Scotland . |
| 11 | In four areas local conditions made him favour a unitary approach and the same authority would , therefore , ‘ exercise both regional and district responsibilities ’ ( Senior 1969 : 159 ) . |
| 12 | Set up in 1985 mainly to service the supermarket sector , Elm 's emphasis on technical innovation , product quality and customer service helped it build a strong customer base and penetrate international markets . |
| 13 | The exceptional skills of Ettore Bugatti saw him develop a four-wheel drive car , the Type 53 , for hill climbing in 1932 . |
| 14 | Danny was heavier by at least two stone , and his upright stance made him appear the taller of the two . |
| 15 | And the young woman let her tie the grizzling baby into the bath-chair and wheel it around the courtyard to look at the hens . |
| 16 | Jess felt it like a physical blow . |
| 17 | After he 'd missed yet another holeable putt , Patrick saw him lay the steel-shafted putter across his knee as if to break or spank it . |
| 18 | Patrick saw him unzip a small pocket . |
| 19 | There was a sharp metallic click and as Dan stood up , Patrick saw him slip the heavy pistol back into his pocket . |
| 20 | England winger Andy Sinton bagged a glorious hat-trick but goalkeeper Neville Southall 's deliberate handball after 19 minutes saw him receive the first red card . |
| 21 | Stop crying Did you have a nice weekend ? |
| 22 | Mum Did you spot the cheeky one , number twenty ? |
| 23 | ‘ In no case did I make a formal approach to the top management of any of the firms to get approval or support for the research . |
| 24 | But production only reached 421,000 last year and the real bright spot was Land-Rover , whose Discovery model helped it achieve the best year for sales since the first Land-Rover rolled out in 1948 , while productivity jumped 25 per cent . |
| 25 | The children helped him find a better cure , too . |
| 26 | are you able to help this jury with this simple matter , to your knowledge , on this development , on a hundred and thirty eight or so apartments did you see the second addition of this brochure and the third ? , did you personally ever see it ? |
| 27 | Dust lay thickly over the cracked flagstone floor and only when I ascended a dangerous staircase did I find a solitary reminder of the business that helped to make the Damianis one of the richest Arab families in Jaffa . |
| 28 | Neither in Germany nor in the Habsburg empire did they make the slightest difference to the way in which foreign policy was decided and carried out . |
| 29 | It was apparent to Miss Wharton , on that first day , that he had never been inside a church before , but neither then nor on any subsequent visit did he evince the least curiosity about its purpose . |