Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [pron] [vb past] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since John 's abduction I had kept a diary , hoping somehow that I could capture the time John was missing , to keep things from fading so that I could share them with him when he came back . |
| 2 | Out of his family 's travails he helped to make a fastness of domestic security — Cis , Ifor and the barricades of brothers , sisters , cousins , aunts , ever-open houses … out of the outwardly unpromising landscape of a war-battered , low-waged steel , coal and chapel culture he took a fine voice , musical knowledge , a skill in many sports , a love for learning : and he never forgot that a few shillings would and did make the difference between dignity and pity , poverty and decent comfort . |
| 3 | After some months of working with him it gradually emerged that although he had indeed identified his wife 's body he had had a member of the hospital staff with him at all times . |
| 4 | Just her regrets about the Rector 's wife who 'd had a miscarriage … |
| 5 | On Saint Theresa 's day I had to paint a frieze of watercolour rose petals to run the length of the classroom walls . |
| 6 | Arkady Volsky , leader of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs , a part of Civic Union , advocated a closer study of China 's economy which had preserved a parallel state and private sector . |
| 7 | On Ma Bombie 's instructions everyone had saved a small coin . |
| 8 | In 1921 , in one of the more serious confrontations , the Recorder of Liverpool publicly censured the city 's police who had batoncharged a demonstration of unemployed workers with ‘ most unnecessary violence ’ . |
| 9 | They loved Polly 's garden which seemed to have a magic of its own . |
| 10 | She had been brought up a Unitarian , but about the time of her brother 's death she decided to become a Roman Catholic . |
| 11 | A day or two after Nicholas 's death he decided to found a journal . |
| 12 | In my grandmother 's house I had had a big bedroom ; here I had to share . |