Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His talents , his wealth , and the changing times raised him to the court of assistants of the Levant Company from 1644 to 1648 , and in 1645 Parliament appointed him to the Goldsmiths ' Hall committee , through which Royalists redeemed their sequestrated estates by paying compositions . |
| 2 | Well no the , the owner , the baker reported them to the police . |
| 3 | The wind grabbed him under the arms and flipped him outwards and back as it had the torn raven banner already . |
| 4 | Her half-sister took her to the police . |
| 5 | ‘ So your mummy saw me with the boys , did she ? |
| 6 | Yeah , having some dinner , well we did n't have any did we , cos mummy took you to the pictures with nanny |
| 7 | But a witness saw him outside the premises . |
| 8 | Even if a band that I liked did this , I 'm sure that it would not make me gay ( And even if the power of rock introduced you to the delights of homosexuality , who cares , eh ? |
| 9 | However , resentment from those who had learned the trade through the proper apprenticeship forced him into a debtors ' prison in 1738 . |
| 10 | Does he really believe that the woman who spent an hour asking questions would have passively accepted everything a female consultant told her with no queries ? |
| 11 | Felipe 's possessive attitude rid her of the attentions of Peter Rainford and when Felipe offered to show them Ana 's skills neither of them looked overjoyed . |
| 12 | The Presidium of the Czech National Council approved the draft on Feb. 12 , describing it as " the basic point of departure for the talks … on the final wording of the agreement " , but the Presidium of the Slovak National Council rejected it on the grounds that the Slovak delegation had made too many concessions . |
| 13 | The Fat Controller addressed me over the sounds of her orgasm , paying no attention to them at all . |
| 14 | You could be you could be lured into a position where if , if the management had you by the tails , thinking along the same line , then you could never be an efficient , you know , negotiator . |
| 15 | No no , do n't put the nuts in your mouth , remember what daddy told you about the nuts in there . |
| 16 | During a recent visit to an old people 's home , the officer in charge told me of the efforts she had to make to prevent the local children from taunting and mocking the residents-often through the windows . |
| 17 | The frontier post spotted him from the photos we rushed to the western frontier . |
| 18 | Joe started when Harry 's elbow caught him in the ribs as he said , ‘ I wonder if my illustrious brother will be as insufferable as he was during the Christmas holidays ? ’ |
| 19 | But he proved right about the size of Switham Thicket , for a bare quarter of a mile brought them to the outskirts of the other side , and almost immediately the horse was turned into a walled aperture of crumbling stone , its high , rusty iron gates wide open . |
| 20 | The colour reminded him of the paintings of hell by the mediaeval painter , Ferdinand Breughel . |
| 21 | Persia , Mesopotamia and Egypt remain more or less where Hellenistic erudition put them as the holders of barbarian wisdom . |
| 22 | So she remained silent as the taxi carried them towards the restaurants and bars that nestled beneath blocks of luxury flats overlooking the marina . |
| 23 | His friend kicked him in the ribs and asked him what he was doing down there . |
| 24 | George Cripps 's son wrote to the Yorkshire Post in October 1979 : ‘ The remarks of Mr J. McKenna make me smile when I remember some of the things which my father told me about the machinations by various members of the then Football League , which have certainly led me to believe that they were not so simon pure as the image they presented to the public . ’ |
| 25 | She had heard tales of the sunshine , the flowers and bright colours of the upper world , but her father warned her of the perils that haunted the surface , in particular the giants that in those days walked the wilds of Dartmoor . |
| 26 | The emancipation of the press from direct state control freed it into the arms of eager politicians , though both groups of interest benefited from the close , voluntarily established , affinity which was to develop in the mid-Victorian decades . |
| 27 | Dane gripped her by the shoulders then , and she thought he would shake her . |
| 28 | The perplexed driver took him to a police station — which then contacted Steve . |
| 29 | His Mum took him by the shoulders and turned him to face her . |
| 30 | An unusual call led us to the reeds by the lake , and it turned out to be an ortolan bunting , quite distinctive with its buff chest and olive-green head . |