Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack Smith and his wife Maisie were pets who 'd known them all their lives . |
| 2 | ‘ My love , my love , ’ and was flooded by the days she had called him that . |
| 3 | She takes a sip of mineral water before launching into James Woods and his girlfriend , Sarah Owen : ‘ I 've a theory that James and his girlfriend had so many problems they had to turn it all on me . ’ |
| 4 | There were so many ways she wanted to tell him this , all of them inadequate to express her feelings . |
| 5 | I have never forgotten that near the end of his life my Father told me that in his loneliness Basil was the one of his five children who had given him most sympathy and understanding . |
| 6 | For about the seventh time Folly walked over to the vase on the mantelpiece which held the flowers he had sent her that morning . |
| 7 | Given the chance last Sunday , East Germans not only dished the communist would-be reformers who succeeded Erich Hon-ecker but the civil-rights campaigners who had brought his wretched regime down and the Social Democrats who hoped to replace them both . |