Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles Caldecott , who owned the Whetstone Park Stud , was an odd character whom Kelly had met a couple of times and had never really taken to . |
| 2 | And yet the best form of relief for this boy whom grief had made a man would be in action . |
| 3 | Sometimes this obstinacy was the refuge of the poor man who can not afford change and to whom stagnation has become a habit of mind necessary for survival ; at other times it represented a sound rejection of improper techniques culled by ‘ philosophical ’ amateurs from the journals of French and English agricultural societies . |
| 4 | There are lines round my eyes and my hair has become a hag 's rope . |
| 5 | I want to give it to Angela to put away now so I know my money 's put a way . |
| 6 | Also my mum had to share a bedroom with me and she did n't like watching someone else seeing to me . |
| 7 | Well as I say I went out and erm I thought , well Jill phoned and she said at the time my mum had got a boy that was sleeping rough down the sandpits . |
| 8 | And my Mum 's had a letter . |
| 9 | My Mum 's had a letter . ’ |
| 10 | Oh that 's lovely , three years ago my sister died leaving a household of two men , my brother-in-law aged eighty and myself approaching retirement age to cope with ourselves , to cope for ourselves . |
| 11 | A warm excited thrill ran through my veins , my blood seemed to give a bound , and then raced fast and hot along its channels . |
| 12 | My kids have got a paddock , where they play . |
| 13 | My car 's got a bidet in it . |
| 14 | My parents had rented a cottage on a farm at Backakeldy , ten miles south from Kirkwall overlooking the sea on the eastern shores of Scapa Flow . |
| 15 | Both I and my officials have had a number of such discussions with a variety of people . |
| 16 | My great-grandmother preferred to begin a meal with pudding in case she ran out of steam before the last course . |
| 17 | Some years ago now , my husband came to choose a painting from you and you made an offer to help CPRW in any way you could . |
| 18 | ‘ My husband has put a lot of work into Maastricht and the last six months have been awful for him , ’ she said . |
| 19 | I do n't know how many times my husband has attempted a three-D backdrop effect before , but this method , with its spot-on diagrams , worked first time . |
| 20 | But he has , we we 've only got , my husband 's got a computer at work , we just got one of the Segas , the master systems you know that you you got th the games that you put in those but he wants to get another one next year but that 's a good idea something like that ! |
| 21 | But there was the application sitting in my file trying to make a liar out of me . ’ |
| 22 | The lump on my head had lost a lot of weight during the night and after five minutes under a tepid shower I was n't feeling too bad . |
| 23 | But none of my predecessors has found a way of introducing it here , ’ Mr Lamont said . |
| 24 | My wife wished to take a photograph of me leaning against it from uphill and I have to report that the stone proved not to be immovable and now rests at the bottom of the slope . |
| 25 | My wife 's got a degree in mathematics , but she loves her kids ! ’ |
| 26 | Oh I 've seen there in fact my wife 's got a set of Howsons so |
| 27 | My father had become a Spiritualist almost by accident . |
| 28 | Perhaps if my father had built a formica cocktail bar in the corner of our lounge my mother would still be living with us . |
| 29 | From when I was very young , my father had nurtured a love of art in me ; I shared a great deal with him ( he took me nearly every Sunday to the Louvre ) and was close to him until his death . |
| 30 | I wish my father had left a description of his encounter with Balcha but I can find none in his letters or despatches . |