Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] [pron] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , Carl scolded me in his own fashion : |
| 2 | Ben and his young friends had been told at the start of the meeting to behave themselves and not get in the way of the other archers , so they were not too pleased when he beat them at their own game . |
| 3 | To hasten this process , Bakewell rented out his bulls so that their performance was proven elsewhere before he used them in his own herd . |
| 4 | He contradicted himself within his own question by saying that we have no constitutional ideas and then identifying an area on which we are currently consulting with a view to making constitutional changes . |
| 5 | Wexford let himself into his own house and the dog Clytemnestra galloped to meet him . |
| 6 | I have drawn you in , and involved you in my own anger at my son 's disobedience . ’ |
| 7 | Her hands fumbled with the bunch of keys as she let herself into her own flat again . |
| 8 | He seemed far away from Ruth , in a trance whose nature she could only guess at — but free , she thought , of the despair and anger that beset him in their own world . |
| 9 | Lufbery became obsessed by the urge to avenge his friend , which evidently pursued him until his own death in May 1918 , and he was to be the first American to earn the title of ace . |
| 10 | She put her hand on the older woman 's shoulder and Aunt Margaret blindly grasped it with her own bird-claw . |
| 11 | On a Jamaican cattle ranch acquired in settlement of some debts , he freed the slaves and transported them at his own expense to Philadelphia for resettlement . |
| 12 | Without blushing , he told me in my own drawing room : ‘ I am a financial adviser to both the Duke and Duchess . |
| 13 | Laura wondered in a daze as he swiftly divested himself of his own clothing , and then , in the grip of a feverish , shuddering excitement , she responded as his lovemaking became more pressing and urgent . |
| 14 | For a second he looked exasperated and then he murmured something in his own language and suddenly drew her to her feet , his hands gripping hers , steadying her and comforting . |
| 15 | She was shivering against him , and he helped her back to the fire and bundled her in his own bedroll ; but she kept her arms about him . |
| 16 | I told him about our own lack of any real bomber force until the Germans made us build one . |
| 17 | Former New Seekers singer Lyn Paul was linked with him briefly and , in a ‘ kiss- and tell ’ interview , said , ‘ I think every time he took a girl out he compared her with his former wife , Gabrielle , and none of them came up to scratch . ’ |
| 18 | She gave Anne potted biographies of all the other patients and told her about her own treatment . |
| 19 | The Spanish pistol was still clutched in his right hand ; Maxim took it away and dropped it in his own pocket . |
| 20 | Just keep half the gram he lent you for your own use , and sell the rest . |
| 21 | She confronted me with it this afternoon and she had all the details — even the name of the pub where the meeting was held . " |
| 22 | Mr Blair also informed me of your own kind assurances to the same effect . |
| 23 | Fanned it with their own hatred . ’ |
| 24 | Instead of submitting his organisation to the will of party bureaucrats , he turned it into his own power-base and started bombarding the party with his own initiatives . |
| 25 | I showed it to you this morning Ian . |
| 26 | Indians have discarded the Empire ; they have clung to the language of the imperialists and shaped it in their own manner . |
| 27 | They used the Greek orders , adapted them to their own taste , added two more variations and employed them constructively in temples and basilicas but more often , especially in later work , only decoratively when the arch mode of construction was used , for example , in the Colosseum and the Theatre of Marcellus . |
| 28 | But Lord Justice MacDermott did not impose any conditions when he released them on their own bail of £100 . |
| 29 | He was glad that he did n't throw out the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since he had taken them out of the suitcase on top of the wardrobe and displayed them in his own room as if they had come in with the morning post . |
| 30 | ‘ You just barged in here , grabbed hold of one of my letters , then locked me in my own sitting-room . |