Example sentences of "[noun] [pos pn] [noun] [vb past] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course her father saw them arrive but he never mentioned them . |
| 2 | For years his name made me feel sick too : |
| 3 | On Friday night his grandmother heard him come in , because his key grated in the lock . |
| 4 | For the last twenty years of his life his bronchitis made him take holidays on the French Riviera ; Frith says of these later years that he ‘ fell back upon books and art , nature , love and poetry ’ . |
| 5 | In the Muslim world their impotence made them perfect harem guards and they rose to power as chamberlains , governors and even generals . |