Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was n't the French that threw me but the arty design which was about as easy to follow as the plot of Twin Peaks . |
| 2 | As soon as the plane had hit any turbulence , the springs would have popped off the arm that held them and the two buckets would have automatically deployed . |
| 3 | The Daily Mirror did not even pretend that its Scottish edition was the same paper and sold it as the Daily Record . |
| 4 | ‘ The nurses panicked and made me and the other mother sign forms saying that we definitely had our own babies . ’ |
| 5 | However , a friendly priest emerged and told me that the whole church had been built , in an old-fashioned style , in 1935 . |
| 6 | The following Spring , a still shaken Khrushchev called a group of writers to his dacha outside Moscow and told them that the Hungarian rising could have been avoided if a few writers had been shot in time . |
| 7 | The Provincial Commissioner , Philip Mitchell , then near the beginning of the career which was to culminate in the governorships of Uganda and Kenya , complimented Murrells on his anthropological acumen — and advised him that the local councils of elders should ‘ consist where possible of one man , with three or more advisers , rather than a Committee because of the notorious weakness of Committees as executive instruments ’ . |
| 8 | She wakened Anna and dressed her and the two of them went on deck . |