Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My husband kicked it in the chest and it flew off but returned shgortly after and attacked the smallest of the dogs pinning it against a stile |
| 2 | My father met me in the kitchen . |
| 3 | We always had plenty of vegetables , for my father grew them in the garden , and during the Second World War , had an allotment too . |
| 4 | ‘ But John Reed knocked me down and my aunt locked me in the red room , ’ I cried . |
| 5 | My predecessor supported me in the Lobby last week , as did the vast majority of the House . |
| 6 | Apart from the shock that her GP saw her in the same light as his aged mother , Marie has never looked back . |
| 7 | Her boy-friend shot me in the leg . ’ |
| 8 | She was part of a team and content to be just that ; she did n't want to have to leave the protective colouring her job gave her in the safety of the laboratory . |
| 9 | Only the pressure of his hand behind her head anchored her in the rushing of the storm . |
| 10 | It is now called The Cottage , but Mrs Smith remembers that her father-in-law bought it in the early thirties and referred to it as ‘ the Doctor 's House . ’ |
| 11 | Her boyfriend found them in the back of his van , abandoned by someone months or years before their discovery , and they have collected chocolate stains from half eaten Minstrels and white smears from Quaker oats . |
| 12 | His friend kicked him in the ribs and asked him what he was doing down there . |
| 13 | How right this intuitive decision proved to be and how well his intuition served him in the years ahead . |
| 14 | The farm 's now seven times bigger than it was when his grandfather ran it in the 1920's . |
| 15 | In those days he came in with a His coachman brought him in the trap and they got the twenty minutes past seven express train to Glasgow . |
| 16 | His family visited him in the cells before leving the court . |
| 17 | An eighteen year old 's been convicted of violent disorder after his victim identified him in the street . |
| 18 | Not one peaceful night had passed since Emilia Frere exacted her promise ; not even after she and her husband were gone , back to whatever wretchedness awaited them in the Rectory . |
| 19 | ‘ Why do you think your father left them in the first place ? ’ |
| 20 | Later he said , ‘ Your father called me in the office . ’ |
| 21 | Your dad burned it in the stove and he made your mum and Aunt Emily swear not to talk about it no more . |