Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may be amused to hear that one of my sons spotted you the other day training with Korchnoi and the Brighton and Hove Albion football team . |
| 2 | My heart gave me an unforgettable jolt when I thought him to be headless ; yet there was no blood staining the fresh , even snow . |
| 3 | Instead of buying us a present , from erm , my mum bought me a few bits and pieces when they went to France . |
| 4 | I still remember that day in the war when , as a very junior subaltern , my CO left me a little hand-written note admonishing me for appearing at breakfast unshaven . |
| 5 | Then my C.O. gave me a forty eight to sort out this Bella business . |
| 6 | I was very tomboyish and my parents allowed me a great deal of freedom until that magic day came when I was supposed to become ‘ a little lady ’ . |
| 7 | My boss gave me a sweet and encouraging smile , balanced a mushroom on a piece of fried bread and conveyed it to his mouth . |
| 8 | " My grandparents bequeathed me no worldly goods , no duties , no knowledge , no respect … |
| 9 | My grandson asked me the other morning , when was I gon na die ? |
| 10 | My wife gave me a right old bo*****ing last night when I started shouting abuse at Keumann ( sp ? ) |
| 11 | After Murti had completed her statutory five minutes of dust re-distribution , my wife waved her a cheery goodbye . |
| 12 | ‘ My wife bought me a small kit to try out using wool — which is rather like painting by numbers — and I have not looked back since . ’ |
| 13 | I was able to follow up that evening , for my father gave me a lovely chrysanthemum bloom from his greenhouse and the next day I took it to her home and asked her mother , who opened the door to my rather nervous knock , if she would give it to her daughter . |
| 14 | As I sat down the man on my left gave me a brief nod . |
| 15 | When I got my period , my family made it a happy , celebratory occasion , in their own way . |
| 16 | My colleagues thought it an impracticable plan and that it would put British manufacturers at a disadvantage — unless such measures could be introduced worldwide . |
| 17 | A glance at her watch gave her the perfect excuse to leave immediately … |
| 18 | He could see very little , but the sound of their laughter told him a whole group of workmen had crept up on him while he was hugging the yard wall , fearful of the big Great Dane . |
| 19 | Being fond of tapestry work , this was frustrating until her husband made her an adjustable frame so that she could work her tapestry at eye level . |
| 20 | Postwoman Val took Pat home , where her husband made him a Jamaican meal and Pat then went off to boogie to a steel band , like a rasta on ganja , exhibiting a sense of abandon never hinted at in Greendale . |
| 21 | For laughing and singing at a funeral her husband gave her a reproving tap , and she had to return to her home in the lake . |
| 22 | ‘ … at least her husband bought her a nice little boutique in Hauz Khas Village . |
| 23 | Ponies tacked up in the pony lines yawned with boredom as their owners gave them a last polish . |
| 24 | Once more her father gave her a scathing look . |
| 25 | Her father gave her a smart blue dress , her mother an equally smart green dress . |
| 26 | They fell much in love , and her father gave her a fine dowry of fat lake-cattle and his blessing for a happy marriage , with the proviso that the groom never raise his hand to the water-fairy . |
| 27 | Her background made her an early starter in the love stakes . |
| 28 | The knowledge that a fat bag of coins was hidden among her stockings in the top drawer of her dresser gave her a cosy feeling of security . |
| 29 | When Monday came , her misery gave her a new edge of ruthless efficiency , so that she hardly hesitated in rejecting some of the more out-of-condition stock that the retiring owner tried to include in the valuation . |
| 30 | Mr Evans and Auntie Lou gave her handkerchieves and her mother sent her a green dress that was too tight in the chest and too short . |