Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [vb infin] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accent made it sound a strange new game . |
| 2 | They did it , very slowly and tenderly , and then drove on again ; and then Boy made him stop the second time , in a layby with the first lorry headlights going past , and the man took Boy 's cock in his mouth again , and masturbated Boy again so that he came a second time , and then they drove again . |
| 3 | A jovial Indian lady struggling to stay inside her sari helped me find the Electoral Register covering Lee Metford Road and I ran a finger down the names to see if any rang a bell . |
| 4 | Only when he saw others smiling and laughing did he give the little barks . |
| 5 | Boy did he have the last laugh . |
| 6 | Only now that he was safe did he feel a little black jet of fear rising in his chest , a gobbet of bile that filled his mouth , washing his teeth in acid . |
| 7 | Set up in 1985 mainly to service the supermarket sector , Elm 's emphasis on technical innovation , product quality and customer service helped it build a strong customer base and penetrate international markets . |
| 8 | Danny was heavier by at least two stone , and his upright stance made him appear the taller of the two . |
| 9 | And the young woman let her tie the grizzling baby into the bath-chair and wheel it around the courtyard to look at the hens . |
| 10 | Stop crying Did you have a nice weekend ? |
| 11 | Mum Did you spot the cheeky one , number twenty ? |
| 12 | ‘ In no case did I make a formal approach to the top management of any of the firms to get approval or support for the research . |
| 13 | But production only reached 421,000 last year and the real bright spot was Land-Rover , whose Discovery model helped it achieve the best year for sales since the first Land-Rover rolled out in 1948 , while productivity jumped 25 per cent . |
| 14 | Dust lay thickly over the cracked flagstone floor and only when I ascended a dangerous staircase did I find a solitary reminder of the business that helped to make the Damianis one of the richest Arab families in Jaffa . |
| 15 | Neither in Germany nor in the Habsburg empire did they make the slightest difference to the way in which foreign policy was decided and carried out . |
| 16 | It was apparent to Miss Wharton , on that first day , that he had never been inside a church before , but neither then nor on any subsequent visit did he evince the least curiosity about its purpose . |