Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	His reading of Voltaire 's Philosophical Dictionary made him briefly an atheist ( Boyer beat religion back into him , to lifelong effect ) , but of more lasting consequence was his discovery of twenty-one sonnets by a Wiltshire clergyman called William Lisle Bowles ( 1762–1850 ) .
2	Once I had learnt to ride , the trick of balancing took me quite a while , that bike , over the next four years gave me enormous pleasure .
3	When she concluded by asking if Madame Vassoir still had the letter from Beatrix and if its contents could have provoked Samantha 's abduction , her hostess poured them both a glass of sherry before replying .
4	The shock of the assault carried them both a yard or two back along the passageway .
5	William Terris ' ghost seemed to have an affinity with Mr Hayden because the foreman saw him nearly every day in some part of the station for some two years .
6	of all , preserv 'd me still A Poet , made me seek
7	The journey took her over an hour , and it was another fifteen minutes before she found where Michael was being held .
8	Still , the thought gave me quite a jolt of pleasure .
9	Three times their number drove them unrelentingly a mile and more through the broken copses and across the brook south of Cegidfa .
10	The sudden motion brought her forward a step , so that suddenly they were barely a breath apart .
11	A young blade in the corner eyed us closely every time we went past .
12	On a lighter note a fellow worker approached me only a couple of months ago er , the new European directive almost ruined his holiday he then explained he booked up to take his family to EuroDisney .
13	His own country offered him only the deathbed of his mother , and twelve years ' imprisonment .
14	But he bore no malice , and on the way back to the hotel gave me quite a run-down on his cousin Ena , who he said had once been Queen of Spain .

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