Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [pron] 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 | See the towels she gave me the last time . |
| 4 | Perhaps Richard had the best of it : at Queen Eleanor 's court he encountered troubadours and intellectuals who taught him the social graces . |
| 5 | There were sensible men who thought him the finest evangelist of his generation . |
| 6 | In the far realms and colonies no-one knew who the true king was . |
| 7 | ‘ Those papers I gave you the other evening — ’ |
| 8 | The most obvious connection was , of course , France itself and on most occasions which presented themselves the French told the Americans of their difficulties and requirements in Indo-China , how many of their troops were there and , usually , how many they had lost . |
| 9 | 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 . |