Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wittek writes that among the basic causes of concern were Bayezid 's policy of using Christian soldiers against the Muslim gazi emirates in Anatolia and the " latinization " of the Ottoman court , the introduction into it of the practices of the Christian Balkan princes , this criticism being reflected in anecdotes relating that Bayezid 's Serbian wife Despina instructed him in the delights of wine . |
| 2 | For Doumen 's six-year-old had already won most of France 's top chasing honours including the big one , the Grand Steeplechase de Paris , and had all but beaten the best of the British at Cheltenham back in March 1991 when only the nose of Garrison Savannah denied him in the Gold Cup . |
| 3 | And then my friend Stephanie saw you in the garden . |
| 4 | The woman with the Scrabble game rules waved them in the air . |
| 5 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 6 | A handful of what he thought was heather thatch caught him in the face , but it was n't : a corn-stack had been pushed over and some of the netting had burst . |
| 7 | He knocked down McGuire for a count of nine and on the break from the subsequent clinch McGuire hit him in the adam 's apple . |
| 8 | A change to teaching English to Italian children brought worse problems with ‘ il Signor Conte ’ , and a period married to a sisal farmer in Portuguese East Africa found her in the worst place on God 's earth . |
| 9 | A dolf ball hit me in the mouf fo now I fpeak funny ! |
| 10 | When the doors of the huge dining room at the zoo were thrown open we were first in , but a sergeant cook met us in the entrance with : " I want three volunteers for dishwashing — you , you and you , " and marched us away . |
| 11 | Tears rose haphazardly to her eyes as she watched the sequence of silent film Alexei showed her in the now darkened room . |
| 12 | ‘ One of the patrol cameras caught him in the Frames making harvest . ’ |
| 13 | After some time Jean advised me in the words above to go out and be alone with God and express my renewed affection for him . |
| 14 | Their mother Carol found them in the burning room after hearing their screams . |
| 15 | The family lawyers contacted him in the USA . |