Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On my third day of freedom I managed to steal some coins and sent a note to my master in Ipswich . |
| 2 | At the rear of many French houses I had noticed several rabbit-hutches containing the largest rabbits I had ever seen , certainly larger than anything in Britain . |
| 3 | As a journalist I had seen many countries overseas , all smaller and poorer than ourselves , being granted self-government ; and I had hoped that Scotland would not be denied even the limited self-government that was then being dished out to the Cook Islands and the Faeroe Islands and the Cameroons . ’ |
| 4 | And er within eighteen months I 'd got three lorries running . |
| 5 | Mr Bailes ' little place was situated about half way along Highburn village and to get into the farmyard you had to walk twenty yards or so between five-foot walls . |
| 6 | In her state of extreme nervous tension she had clutched those dollars so tightly that they 'd almost disintegrated . |
| 7 | He had installed her in a cottage on East Street and in the last few days before the wedding she had worked all hours to spicken the place up and turn it into a home for him . |
| 8 | For two centuries they had faced Celtic attacks . |
| 9 | Their punishment was that they were to walk bare foot behind the procession on the following Sunday , but instead of one taper they had to carry four tapers ( value 2d ) and there they should offer two at the High Altar , and two at the Altar of St. John . |
| 10 | Just short of the entrance to the Estrecho de Magellanes they had encountered gale-force winds and off Cabo Virgenes the tow had begun to sheer violently and range up on the tug . |
| 11 | After his ‘ over by Christmas ’ offensive into North Korea had ended in a rout he began to drop dark hints about Red China 's inability to wage ‘ modern war ’ . |
| 12 | My multiple personality required multiple scripts , and from my study of graphology I tried to create individual scripts that conformed to the analyses of heavy down-strokes , ‘ pasty ’ loops and uncrossed ‘ ts ’ : I was especially interested in ‘ pasty ’ strokes , which are supposed to indicate a rich sexuality , and disconnected letters , indicative of ‘ inspiration ’ . |
| 13 | The particular portfolio I saw had twenty-seven etchings many being straight-forward views of Ambleside and elsewhere but included were prints of ‘ Oak trees in Rydal Park ’ , of ‘ Yew tree in Patterdale churchyard ’ and ‘ Birch trees in Coom Gill ’ . |
| 14 | During her tour of duty in England she had killed two men without any risk of being apprehended . |
| 15 | SHATTERED kidnap mum Kerry Needham wept bitter tears of disappointment as she first laid eyes on the child she had raced 2,000 miles to see . |
| 16 | The schoolgirl told her parents she had stopped three nights in a bed and breakfast , spending the day on the beaches and on the piers , before her money ran out . |
| 17 | Fleury was quite wrong in thinking that Miriam had been nourishing amorous ambitions as far as the Collector was concerned ; on the contrary , throughout the siege she had taken great pains not to allow her feelings to attach themselves to any individual man . |
| 18 | In fourteen years Eleanor had not produced an heir to his kingdom , but in the first six years of her second marriage she had had five children and four of them were boys : William , who died in 1156 , Henry , Richard and Geoffrey . |
| 19 | In January we began to involve all employees in the plans . |
| 20 | At that time , the mullahs were the country 's principal teachers and in many rural areas they had become considerable men of property , taxing the people and buying land for themselves . |
| 21 | When the team left for Cameroon they had spent several months gathering the equipment necessary for their 4 weeks of planned project activity . |
| 22 | He was just recuperating after a fall , was overwhelmed by other commitments , and knew that to pick up the threads of work he had done 15 years before and write it up in French in only two months was a Herculean task . |
| 23 | Though 1660 marked the end of feudalism in its political aspect , in the sphere of private law it continued to cause many difficulties , which were not removed until 1925 . |
| 24 | Changi Jail was still there , though , together with the old sergeants ' mess he 'd known 40 years earlier . |
| 25 | Reviving a battle he had begun two years ago with military-equipment designers , he insisted that his men needed boots of beige suede with speed laces , ankle-supports , lightweight nylon material , a sand-blocking closure and arch-support . |
| 26 | It got phased out so that the Ministry did n't pay anything at all but to get this grant you had to keep tremendous records copies of invoices and you had to get er and the bus grant and the , the permission from them . |
| 27 | In twenty-four hours she had aged ten years . |
| 28 | And of course you had to have great dustsheets to keep the dust . |
| 29 | Going through the door to the back kitchen you had to take three steps down and immediately to the left was the matchboard door to the garden . |
| 30 | At this point I began to have serious doubts about this man 's hold on reality . |