Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So his political background and other skills made him the logical candidate ’ . |
| 2 | The pose of the bald egg-shaped heads , the jointed arms stiffly flexed in a parody of benediction , the staring eyes and curved arrow-like lips gave them the hieratic look of a couple of painted deities . |
| 3 | To her relief , she was back to full fitness in time for the British Stroke-Play at Southerness where a 78 and 77 carved out of near gale-force winds gave her the half-way lead . |
| 4 | The panic attacks gave her the perfect excuse , as no blame could possibly be attributed to her . |
| 5 | Unbeknown to all , though , Harry 's bird arrived in Lisbon in 1975 , where it 's Swiss owners gave it the wrong name a nom-de-plume if you like . |
| 6 | You see a woman see a woman and your man did n't know where he was , and then she walked out one night and put her hand through the window and she ripped it from there to there and she said the doctors told her the only thing that stopped her the arm from coming off was the bone . |
| 7 | The distant klaxons told him the whole camp was being mobilized . |
| 8 | The teachers said it the English way , |
| 9 | Well as I say , the police stopped them the other morning and one of the lads had a chat with the driver and all this and he carried on . |
| 10 | Those who liked the Prince called him Slender Billy , while his detractors called him the Young Frog . |
| 11 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may be amused to hear that one of my sons spotted you the other day training with Korchnoi and the Brighton and Hove Albion football team . |