Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lady 's last opponent shifted his seat until he faced her across the board . |
| 2 | So I got up immediately and said it would be the end of a beautiful friendship if he accused me of necrophilia ! |
| 3 | One 911 owner once remarked to me that he had n't been terribly impressed by his car until he took it on a racetrack . |
| 4 | I do n't think the Labour 'd know a free vote if it bit him on the leg . |
| 5 | There followed a period of uncertainty until it found itself with new occupants Savory and Sons . |
| 6 | Following a very rough crossing from Portsmouth during which I slept very little it dawned on me that we were on our own in a Renault van which was half a ton overweight , had a top speed of 60 mph , an up-hill speed of 40 mph provided you had a run at it , jumped out of fourth gear unless you held it in position and we had 1850 miles to go ! |
| 7 | No and we 'd got three young girls , new , new girls and I saw those and I must have been thinking about Mandy and the car because they said something about oh when we leave we 're all going on a picnic to and I think it was Kettering or quite some time aw some |
| 8 | ‘ It was a kind of torture because it reminded me of how you made love . ’ |
| 9 | They declared their hostility to apprenticeship since they regarded it as a delay in ridding the colonies of slavery . |
| 10 | It took a long time to break away from the idea that children were at best potentially evil and indolent , that they were little pitchers that had to be filled with information and moral guidance before they filled themselves with wickedness , idleness , and nonsense . |
| 11 | My father said the 17-horse power would use too much petrol , but it gave me a year 's pleasure before I swopped it for an A30 van . |
| 12 | My wife had determined that I must swop my old bike for a car after I told her of an encounter with an old pupil of mine as I was toiling up the hill by the power station in Haughton Road , Darlington . |
| 13 | She had started the second stage of labour when they carried her into the Rotunda and hurried her away into the labour ward . |
| 14 | Accordingly , in Clarence ( 1888 ) 22 QBD 23 , a woman 's agreement to sexual intercourse with her husband meant that , surprising as it is to modern ears , he was not guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm when he infected her with VD . |
| 15 | She was n't even aware of having spoken the words aloud until she saw his face tauten with some undefinable emotion as he held her from him . |
| 16 | Ironically , it was the motor car which saved Huntercombe — not just as a means of travel but because the wealth of car maker William Morris , later Viscount Nuffield , secured its future when he bought it in 1925 . |
| 17 | Some played up to the queue even more than I did , and at times it was quite a pantomime as they expressed themselves in their broken English with much arm waving and competitive claims . |
| 18 | Then he pushed everything from his mind as she touched him between his legs . |
| 19 | Approaching the signal box he mounted the steps , the hand-rail creaking as he used it for support . |
| 20 | I lay very still , the hair rising on the back of my neck as something nudged me through the canvas . |
| 21 | James expressed the negative side when he described it as ‘ the theory which denies that there can be in a sensation any element of actual locality , any tone as it were which cries to us immediately and without further ado , ‘ I am here ’ or ‘ I am there ’ ’ . |
| 22 | Behind her she could hear the sudden roar of the car engine as he pulled away from the kerb , then the steady throb as he slowed it alongside her . |
| 23 | Nathan was seated in the opposite corner , one hand easy on the wheel as he helped himself from the plate . |
| 24 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 25 | Ace unfastened her safety harness and clutched the sides of her shaking couch as she pulled herself into a sitting position . |
| 26 | ‘ I hope Wilmot can handle this , ’ said Holly anticipating the lawyer 's reproach when she explained herself to him . |
| 27 | ‘ Could n't you see the dog did n't have friendship in mind when he hurled himself at you ? ’ |
| 28 | Grasping her small suitcase in one hand , Gina followed the sign , drawing up with a soft exclamation of pleasure as she found herself in an oblong courtyard surrounded on two sides by what was obviously her hotel , a tall building of nineteenth-century architecture , its red-tiled roof gabled and decorated with iron curlicues , its many-paned white-framed windows set in mellowed red brick reflecting the pale northern sunshine . |
| 29 | Murad II came out of retirement to inflict a severe defeat on this motley force when he confronted them at Varna . |
| 30 | Cautiously she made her way down them and flicked on the light , gasping in appreciation as she found herself in an ultra-modern kitchen . |