Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My natural reserve made me recoil at this blatant approach , as did my total commitment and loyalty to Leslie . |
| 2 | Now she had rudely stripped the corpse , and at no time during the action had she thought of that strip of white fabric … |
| 3 | ‘ Whose intelligence did you engage with this evening , Karim ? |
| 4 | She went out his wife , shopping left him tinkering with this scooter came back , could n't get in then she did get in and he was dead on the floor ! |
| 5 | But where the wood ended she stepped into another world . |
| 6 | The story is , that in bygone days before the advent of the white man , there was a young Siwash Indian whose ardent love of nature made him come to that point of land on the inlet every day to watch the sunset . |
| 7 | Artai was incapable of sitting still for long , and only his abnormal concern with his appearance made him submit at all to the restrictive nature of the ministrations of the Y'frike slaves . |
| 8 | After two years he moved to Border Television in Carlisle where being part of a small team allowed him to dabble in all areas of production . |
| 9 | His work as a paid negotiator caused him to travel through most of New South Wales arbitrating in disputes , taking part in conciliations and talking , talking , talking as industries grew up in the prospering state and workers flooded in from Britain , mostly from Ireland , to claim their share of what were meagre wages . |
| 10 | His last owner found he suffered from many anxiety-induced health problems including cribbing , psychosomatic skin conditions , and chronic colic ; and also behavioural problems including tongue over the bit , reluctance to eat , fear of being in a large yard or paddock , inability to walk , trot , or canter properly , and sheer terror if he thought he had done something wrong ! |
| 11 | How many times on Monday morning did you go like that ? |
| 12 | When the music stopped they looked at each other for a long moment , then reluctantly drew apart . |
| 13 | So how much profit did he make on that ? |
| 14 | That — that man had me fired from that very first job , the one you organised for me back in South Africa when I left school ! ’ |
| 15 | Never in their whole married life had she spoken like that before . |
| 16 | What in the world possessed you to act like that ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ What reason did he give for that ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ What the hell did you stop like that for ? ’ he asked harshly . |
| 19 | I have , and I you know , there 's been many a day I 've thought cor I 'm really glad I 'm in , I 'm really glad that I did n't give , giving up day and there 's been days when I thought christ how the hell did you get through that day |
| 20 | Not content with Mont Blanc , last year found him searching for another challenge . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't ask me , missis ; all I know , wherever she went on those nights , she 'd leave here at half-past six and it was lucky if the clock saw her coming in that door at half-past eleven at night . ’ |
| 22 | His popularity saw him appear in many Royal Variety shows . |
| 23 | To some observers , the new generations who were born into this environment appeared stunted and uncouth ; their cheap clothing and strange variations on the English language made them seem like another species , almost subhuman . |
| 24 | After her mother died she went on many trips abroad with him . |
| 25 | What impression did you get of each of these people in the story ? |
| 26 | What on earth did he mean by that ? |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , Peter , how on earth did you get into such a fix ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ How on earth did you come by this ? ’ |
| 29 | Why on earth had she reacted like that ? |