Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 According to the report local militias dominated by Uzbek , Tajik and Shia Ismaeli ethnic groups had formed an alliance with local mujaheddin units ( including fighters commanded by Ahmed Shah Masud ) in late March , and together they had taken over control of the city from Pashtun units .
2 Clearly they failed to bring about disarmament , though they may have had a contributory effect on the decision to suspend tests in 1958 and later on the partial test ban treaty .
3 One nurse in the study told how she had to give up training after being branded a trouble-maker for complaining about a male nurse who continually groped her .
4 That 's why I wanted to go up West tonight .
5 However , this doe snot apply so much to our other son , Robert , who is a private music teacher in Glasgow , so we see quite a lot of him and his wife and their baby son , who arrived just over a year ago , when we had given up hope of any more grandchildren .
6 Ben was standing several paces from his father , looking back up the grassy slope to where they had set up arc lamps all around the cottage .
7 The first extensive studies of Romano-British pottery were by Thomas May , who died on 28 October , 1931 at Stratford-upon-Avon , where he had taken up residence to be able to work on the nearby site at Tiddington , ( Fieldhouse , May and Wellstood , 1931 ) .
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