Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases I had to accept that information given to me to help me understand problems of academic publishing was to remain confidential , but once credibility had been established the publishers were very helpful . |
| 2 | At the rear of many French houses I had noticed several rabbit-hutches containing the largest rabbits I had ever seen , certainly larger than anything in Britain . |
| 3 | In a couple of minutes I had lost any chance of kinship with Sue by making one of the most basic mistakes . |
| 4 | To my eyes the new pair of partridges were indistinguishable from any of the other birds I had seen that day , but the rest of the audience clearly thought otherwise . |
| 5 | they were on about that they ship them abroad and th , they were interviewing a lad in London he said oh , he used to get up in the morning and er go down to the phone box and phone this contact they know and he 'd tell you what cars you wanted pinching this day and they pinch them to order ! |
| 6 | Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon . |
| 7 | Two thirds of all the teenagers we interviewed agreed that sex education at school missed out too much . |
| 8 | As princely chanceries evolved across West Francia , their output was welcomed by the population at large because the set formulae they employed offered some assurance of authenticity . |
| 9 | In the centre the earth had been laid bare and was scored with long scratches and furrows , and there was a narrow , regular hole , about the same size as one of the carrots they had carried that morning . |
| 10 | Around the huts he had avoided all contact with her and although they stood side by side listening to her husband , he did nothing to acknowledge her existence . |
| 11 | After a few months he had borrowed enough money to set up a drug store in Sydney . |
| 12 | ‘ He has told friends for months he wanted to spend more time with his family . ’ |
| 13 | and and she said something about through her interest in North American Indians she 'd written this novel . |
| 14 | Being right in line with the posts we had expected some sort of obstacle to look round but not a moving one ! |
| 15 | From a small vase , she took two of the daisies they had picked that afternoon and wound them strategically in Portia 's hair . |
| 16 | Music hall had shown Eliot that the chorus of the Greek drama in whose primitive origins he had exhibited such interest , could still work on the modern stage . |
| 17 | And when she came home she said , Do you know what she said she must have taken ages she said to put that cord through that er beam , she said . |
| 18 | After two years I had discovered many things and I built a scientific machine that was better than anything in the university . |
| 19 | Within two days she had found some information on the Prince 's Trust , which is a scheme set up by the Duke of Cornwall , HRH Prince Charles himself . |
| 20 | That he 'd noticed she 'd got a decent figure was to be expected , she supposed , seeing that the lace cotton blouse and culottes she had worn that time she 'd gone out to dinner with Travis had touched her contours comfortably . |
| 21 | Over the years she had forced these thoughts from her mind , telling herself that her sons were the product of their father . |
| 22 | None of the watering places they visited showed any signs of fresh tracks , and no animals were sighted in the first hour . |
| 23 | Never once in all the years they had known each other had Chambers gone further than a grudging admission that she had a certain flair for bookkeeping . |
| 24 | Within a few days he had received some opinions on it which he transmitted to Pons immediately . |
| 25 | His largest fault , perhaps , and one natural to a good hater , was a congenital inability to accept that mortal creatures hold incompatible views and behave in ways incompatible with their views , so that to the end of his days he declined to accept any difference between holding a speculative opinion that is evil and being bad . |
| 26 | He flattered himself that he was in some small part responsible for such blissful bizarrities , given that over the years he 'd brought all manner of influences through from the Succulent Rock . |
| 27 | For two years he needed massage several times a day and still goes for regular check-ups at hospital . |
| 28 | Nowadays I keep huge lists of every person , organisation and publication connected with birds , so I hope I 'll never again have the problems I had finding that owl . |
| 29 | Such things she had heard this day ! |
| 30 | Nor would a third person enjoy as much as we did the dreams we liked to tell each other . |