Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [noun] [vb past] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course her father saw them arrive but he never mentioned them . |
| 2 | On Friday night his grandmother heard him come in , because his key grated in the lock . |
| 3 | Finch was a lanky man whose cello made him look even thinner . |
| 4 | He was a man whose approachability made him seem so very affable , but no one , however wealthy , becomes a Presidential hopeful without some steel in the soul , and it was that sudden steel that I now saw in the senator 's eyes . |
| 5 | For the last twenty years of his life his bronchitis made him take holidays on the French Riviera ; Frith says of these later years that he ‘ fell back upon books and art , nature , love and poetry ’ . |
| 6 | In the Muslim world their impotence made them perfect harem guards and they rose to power as chamberlains , governors and even generals . |
| 7 | Certainly when we get settled in after Christmas that should be and I 'll shall say about six rolls but I 'll shall say six rolls and just the every time I get one roll of wallpaper up and you you 'll think oh I 'll do the rest tomorrow just a bit more , then you get one more looks alright there , the other wall and er , I 'm sat , I 've been up all night doing this shall do one more then I 'll go a bed , I get from the wife bloody hell mother what time did you go to bed , about an hour ago , could n't leave it wallpaper . |