Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pineapple pyramids : I always felt that the Jews made them to mourn all the slaves before them that the Egyptians had broken with building their mighty pyramids . ’ |
| 2 | His sleeves were rolled up — which was what led me to make such an assumption — but really it was his hair that set the tone . |
| 3 | I got them to try all the recipes in the book — even a mouthful of chitterlings . |
| 4 | to Steve on t' phone , I says , I helped her fill all the forms in , you do n't mind do you ? |
| 5 | I got myself invited along as I wanted to find out what drove him to travel all the way from Surrey to South Wales nearly every weekend . |
| 6 | When the morning came they saw all the gardeners and weeders coming up to the wall and every one was looked at by three guards . |
| 7 | It seemed he held all the cards — there were other agencies who could handle his business , and if he denied Grantham and Marsh the opportunity because of her stubbornness how could she explain it to Sebastian ? |
| 8 | Montague managed to convince Mortimer of his innocence , but his narrow escape did not discourage the king , and when the coup came it had all the appearance of being carefully planned . |
| 9 | ‘ What made you come all the way out here just for a drink anyway ? ’ enquired Sheila . |
| 10 | But Julie claimed she had sub-let the studios and had nothing to do with them any more . |
| 11 | She allowed herself to feel all the pain she 'd denied herself for so long . |
| 12 | This belief , expressed in the legal doctrine of novus actus interruptus , is that a person is responsible for his own actions , and others are not responsible even if they induced his action by suggesting that there are reasons for it , or by behaving in ways which led him to form such a belief . |
| 13 | they asked him to remember all the things he could about the trip from earth . |
| 14 | I thought I had all the answers although I did n't know what was going on . |
| 15 | In 1860 Benjamin Disraeli thought she had such a hold on Lytton that it was affecting his attendance at the House . |
| 16 | That meant we had treble the amount of data we really needed . ’ |
| 17 | He felt her shaking all the way through her bones and into his . |
| 18 | ‘ Ah , but that meant they missed all the glory , too ! ’ |
| 19 | Annie Garnett had no formal training in design , but her natural ability , love of flowers and colour enabled her to design all the textiles produced at The Spinnery . |
| 20 | It was this ability to encourage , to amuse and draw attention to individual potential , however slight , which enabled him to make such an impact on the teaching of art in the schools of the West Riding . |
| 21 | Then again , he was averaging 303 yards a drive — which meant he carried all the course 's major hazards . |
| 22 | When his father died he burnt all the letters he could find . |
| 23 | Everyone knew he had all the attributes a golfer needs , and his swing was poetry in motion . |
| 24 | He recorded in his diary that he thought it represented such a threat to the good name of politicians that a special regulatory authority should be set up to stop the BBC ever doing anything so wicked again . |
| 25 | For example in Belfast , information collected during the community studies enabled us to attempt such an explanation in terms of group pressure to adopt vernacular norms exerted upon an individual whose interpersonal ties were largely local , dense and multiplex . |
| 26 | The group went on growing until St Augustine , or rather his source , made it include all the barbarians : " Atlantici Libyes , Aegyptii , Indi , Persae , Chaldaei , Scythae , Galli , Hispani " ( Civ. dei 8.9 ) . |
| 27 | It was then I noticed a small cut on his forearm , at least it looked small until it opened up and I realised it went all the way through all the underlying muscles . |
| 28 | If Dunn admitted he owed Rich the money he claimed , and he had it — he was always going to pay but just forgot — he paid it over and that was the end of the matter . |
| 29 | Horbury , of Pontypool , Gwent , admitted he drank half a bottle of whisky that night . |
| 30 | How did I make such a mistake ? " |