Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interview had left him with two clear intentions more firmly fixed than ever in his mind . |
| 2 | More than 1,300 letters of congratulation had reached him within 10 days of the Croke Park cup final victory . |
| 3 | Although the Ramsay Committee had suggested them in 1945 , they were never established . |
| 4 | The cruel climate and hard work had aged him by twenty years . |
| 5 | Indeed , they had reckoned German strength in the area to be at most one corps although British Intelligence had estimated it at three and a half corps and even this , in the event , proved an underestimate . |
| 6 | The Shah 's own household had provided him with one of the major problems of his reign . |
| 7 | The girl continued shooting him for ten , maybe fifteen seconds . |
| 8 | The fat boy had mated him in four moves . |
| 9 | In the 1920s , after the British literary establishment had neglected him for forty years , Machen attracted a coterie of admirers in the United States . |
| 10 | All he had was the certainty that whatever steps had been taken that day had led them in one direction only . |
| 11 | Every word of speech , song and prayer was in English , a great change from the services to which an Irish friend had taken me in 1960s Brighton . |
| 12 | The dog had awakened him at ten to seven with long-drawn howls and now , a quarter of an hour later , he stood on the threshold of Sheila 's bedroom , glowering . |
| 13 | The rebels , whose advance had brought them within 50 miles ( 80 km ) of the capital , Addis Ababa , were undecided whether to fight on . |
| 14 | Bad weather during the third round had left him with three holes to complete early the next morning . |
| 15 | They had known all along they had a good , competitive car ; a single mistake had mired them for three races ; it was now solved and they could build for the future . |
| 16 | What I 'd suddenly recalled was a picture hanging over the altar in the caravan ; this in turn had reminded me of one of the statues over the south porch of the Cathedral . |
| 17 | A domestic did miss her on one occasion when her husband and son were present and corrected the situation . |
| 18 | Still the local commander attempted to retake it by one of those spontaneous counter-attacks , but Pétain now intervened , crying hold , enough . |
| 19 | Nails had received a message from Mr Sylvester that the Social Services representative wanted to see him at four o'clock . |