Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt very sorry for her by now and for want of knowing how to express my sympathy I offered to make another pot of tea . |
| 2 | Immediately after my robbery I had thought all this action would be to my benefit . |
| 3 | In my excitement I had forgotten all the good advice about acclimatising to altitude and alcohol . |
| 4 | Earlier in my visit I had spotted some castings on his scrap heap which I was fairly sure belonged to a turbine . |
| 5 | ( In the first few , more romantic months after her return she had shared these with Nigel . ) |
| 6 | So , to test their intelligence we decided to show each horse a plate of oats , and while it was still watching to place the food inside the ring of the tire with the empty feed bucket on top . |
| 7 | Fortunately Ruth had some money from her father which covered buying this house |
| 8 | Throughout their journey they had felt little of the uneasy fear that smells danger behind every bush but despite the weariness that dulled their senses these half-seen forms of rock among the trees seemed now to imply a threatening human presence . |
| 9 | In their protest they sought to restore some political coals to Newcastle : the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320 committed the lay and ecclesiastical nobles of Scotland to support Robert Bruce , who stood against proud Edward 's army , and sent him homeward to think again . |
| 10 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 11 | Mauro Ferri came to Easington in 1939 with his mother and brother to visit his sister who had married another Italian , Dennis Donnini , who was a fusilier in the British Army . |
| 12 | In order to complete his case he had to challenge this deference to a patristic consensus — which he did by observing that the church fathers had taken the motion of the sun for granted because the alternative had not , in that era , been laid before them . |
| 13 | It was his fault she had to go all the way back to the house . |
| 14 | It was odd to think that even without his talent she had inherited this from her father . |
| 15 | With his help I arranged to invest some money in a shipping company called Clarrikers . |
| 16 | One morning he woke up to discover the entire ‘ ARCHITECTURE ’ section stacked so high around his desk he had to wait half the day before pupils managed to free him . |
| 17 | Being Mario , that brought to mind his mother crying back in the camps because there was n't enough food to put on the table , and that led to considerations of the importance of the family in his life , of the value of tradition , thoughts of how Italian he was as well as American , of the kind of clean life America had offered , of his gratitude , of his feeling for his father who 'd made this giant move at such cost to himself , who had suffered so long and who now saw some chance for his kids of bettering themselves . |
| 18 | Since his youth he had studied all forms of low life in both Paris and London . |
| 19 | Although James I may have begun to experience some doubts about the validity of the doctrine of predestination during the last months of his life , earlier in his reign he had given little if any encouragement to the Arminian caucus within his Calvinist church . |
| 20 | On the day of his death he had done some clearing up at the home he shared with his mother , and refused tea before going out of the house unnoticed . |