Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So this afternoon I had him on the settee |
| 2 | ‘ An' where 's the money I gave yer fer the pictures ? ’ he demanded . |
| 3 | Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly |
| 4 | I packed my things , and as I was manoeuvring the car I reversed it into a ditch from which it would not shift . |
| 5 | I did n't approve of what he was doing , but if I refused his money I would be more and more visible , so I took it , and when he had gone off in relief back towards the dining car I gave it to the barman . |
| 6 | He had reached six when he played at a ball down the leg side which hit him on the thigh , with the bat some inches away , and was taken by Dujon . |
| 7 | Our patrol area during that time was mainly on the south coast and the west country , with a longer patrol northward on the west coast which took us into the Bristol Channel , then to the Isle of Man , Workington and Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | I know , but we should n't have to borrow mother when I had to get back , to borrow my wages off Jes to get her tax for her car which left us with no money ! |
| 9 | The car which took us to the station drove as sedately as a Daimler in a royal procession although the people of Amsterdam were on their way to work and provided admirable subjects for baiting . |
| 10 | However , he soon found a car which took us up the hill to Maymyo , and Madriya and his wife and daughter came with us . |
| 11 | A vast impenetrable openness which froze him to the spot where he was as if he was caught in ice . |
| 12 | ( Left The Lycett & Conaty radial gear , with which S.M.E.T. Nos. 1–16 were originally fitted and ( right ) the Warner gear which replaced it in the 1920s . |
| 13 | They then wheeled in unison into a shaft of light which held them for a second or so before they soared over the car and away . |
| 14 | She and her husband were met at the station by a small open carriage which took them to the palace . |
| 15 | The release of his second album , ‘ Hands Free ’ , follows the success of Mona , a hit from his first album which established him as a singer/songwriter but did very little to convince a cynical world that under the suntan there lurked a talented guitarist . |
| 16 | And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide — and unbridgeable . |
| 17 | Last September Airtours bought the Pickfords Travel Service business in a deal which established it as a fully integrated holiday company with an airline , tour operations and travel agents . |
| 18 | In addition to being a hunchback the painter Toulouse-Lautrec suffered from a condition which endowed him with an oversized penis . |
| 19 | Honest enquirers , like the lawyer who asked him about the greatest commandment , were impressed and attracted by his Bible-based teaching ( though , as with the rich young ruler , they did not all respond to it positively ) . |
| 20 | 18 MINUTES : Le Tissier took a corner from the right and Hall , escaping his marker , connected with a tremendous header to score against the club who rejected him as a 15-year-old . |
| 21 | But Durie still feels uncomfortable at the club who backed him to the hilt in wiping out the damaging ‘ cheat ’ slur . |
| 22 | They then wrapped it in linen and concealed it about their person : to jade a horse they touched him in the pit of the shoulder with the frog 's bone : to release the horse they touched him on the rump . |
| 23 | They then wrapped it in linen and concealed it about their person : to jade a horse they touched him in the pit of the shoulder with the frog 's bone : to release the horse they touched him on the rump . |
| 24 | They bound the restaurant owner , who moaned feebly and thrashed about a bit ; then with Lambert 's aid they hoisted him to the high seat . |
| 25 | In the spring he took him to the house in Normandy . |
| 26 | No one really wants to know about him , and he knows why he agreed to do the film , why on the last day of shooting he dismissed it as a ‘ stinker ’ , what he thinks of it now . |
| 27 | Small things delighted him ; when Bowler 's mother knitted him a sweater he wore it for a period continuously . |
| 28 | Although it meant a detour he drove them through the Bois du Boulogne . |
| 29 | Mr. Russell lost out when he received a 6p rise which put him above the income support level . |
| 30 | This I did at once with a feeling of self-importance which blinded me to the now obvious fact that she was abrogating her responsibilities and allowing them to devolve , once more , upon her eldest daughter . |