Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Sleepless in Scotland she had walked it many times in her mind . |
| 4 | By the end , by the end of the afternoon she 'd done it all . |
| 5 | ‘ My love , my love , ’ and was flooded by the days she had called him that . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The next minute he 'd picked them both up and thrown them out of the window . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm afraid I persuaded the woman I spoke to give me this address . |
| 9 | There were so many ways she wanted to tell him this , all of them inadequate to express her feelings . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 14 | For about the seventh time Folly walked over to the vase on the mantelpiece which held the flowers he had sent her that morning . |
| 15 | From some hidden vantage-point she had watched him that morning , while he rode away with the image of her in his mind and his — |
| 16 | The Commandos in the trench with me did not seem to be put out by the noise and the explosions caused by the Moaning Minnies ; no doubt they had heard it all before . |
| 17 | Alexander 's first wife died , his two sons died ; the way he drank to forget it all and his mad rides at night to satisfy any lust , it was only a matter of time before such an accident occurred . ’ |
| 18 | Coupled to an external VHF aerial the 5.0W setting is capable of giving a useful range equal to that of many panel-mounted sets , but on test in the cockpit it failed to offer me much real advantage over the lower-powered units when all were used with the standard screw-on flexible antennas as supplied . |
| 19 | By the time she had done it several times , and copied out the postscript , and redone the drawing , it sounded false to her and she lost her nerve completely . |
| 20 | That intolerable woman , she thought bitterly , had managed to become president of the Tollemarche Downtown Community Centre by a majority of a single vote , and Mrs Frizzell had had to be content with the vice-presidency , which office she declared gave her all the work and none of the authority . |
| 21 | Ruthie ; it was the first time he had called her that here in Majorca . |
| 22 | In fact he had barred him some three weeks previously in mid-March . |