Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the years that followed I made many flights with those ‘ intrepid bush pilots ’ and watched the development of aviation in Canada . |
| 2 | But one major turning point came when she started going to carpentry evening classes and found she had real talent for do-it-yourself . |
| 3 | We had to contend with some extremely high winds and found it needed extra guys to hold upright . |
| 4 | He touched her face very tenderly and believed he felt warm flesh . |
| 5 | Looking into her churning heart as she stood there that night , she knew she felt an affection for the man opposite and believed he had some affection for her . |
| 6 | Pc Kelly told the jury he questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
| 7 | He told the jury that he had questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
| 8 | He checked his watch and knew he had three hours to wait . |
| 9 | A top critic , Jeffrey Taylor of The Mail on Sunday , saw rehearsals of the ballet , and said it contained erotic love scenes . |
| 10 | THE Indian government defeated an opposition censure motion in parliament yesterday and said it had vital evidence to identify those responsible for a series of bomb explosions in Bombay . |
| 11 | Regional Magistrate Gerry Harty agreed that the firm had a good record and said it bought vast quantities for distribution to its various stores . |
| 12 | He denied forcing the teenager to go with him in a car and said she had many chances to leave him . |
| 13 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 14 | Corbett , acting his part , looked nervously back down the street and said he needed certain potions . |
| 15 | So she took the handbag back into Tesco and said I found this handbag erm and they said well give me your name and address and all that so in any rate what happened Bet ? |
| 16 | The daughter fidgeted through her long wild monologues and wished she wore prettier clothes . |
| 17 | In the latest they were called to the home of a man in his early 20s in Frenchgate , Richmond , but found they needed more equipment so took him back to the Richmond Fire Station and released the cuffs with a hacksaw and vice . |
| 18 | In the last month before war was declared , families who were still on the waiting list for places on the Kindertransporte , but knew they had little chance of moving up the queue , took to waiting at the main rail stations , watching and hoping . |