Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At seventeen he joined a travelling band of gypsies who taught him the finer skills of pickpocketing until an accident to his hand six years later put paid to what would have been a very lucrative career . |
| 2 | He was everything that the Hildebrandine Church abhorred , but he had virtues which won him the warm friendship of Marbod , the talented bishop of Rennes , and of the greatest canonist of his day , Ivo of Chartres . |
| 3 | ‘ In the psychic realm it means that we are free to follow any set of images and symbols which give us the right mental feedback — and the State encourages us . |
| 4 | See the towels she gave me the last time . |
| 5 | Perhaps Richard had the best of it : at Queen Eleanor 's court he encountered troubadours and intellectuals who taught him the social graces . |
| 6 | There were sensible men who thought him the finest evangelist of his generation . |
| 7 | ‘ Those papers I gave you the other evening — ’ |
| 8 | If ones came as in little wee pi pickups we called them the little lorry things you would sort of keep your eye very much because you did n't know they were looking for scrap and if you told them you had nothing they might go away with your iron gates or something . |