Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas if he had , if he sold them as separate houses he 'd probably get forty thousand apiece . |
| 2 | I referred him to various people who knew his father , including one or two working in the Eastern European section of MI6 at the time . ’ |
| 3 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
| 4 | Two Bengali women in their twenties told me of many women they knew , and knew of , who were thus stranded . |
| 5 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 6 | He also told me about another ex-employee who 'd had a fatal motor accident … ’ |
| 7 | He also told her in great detail what kind of a woman Gina was . |
| 8 | Tom told us of one horse whose molars on one side of the mouth were excessively short and on the other very long . |
| 9 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |
| 10 | Whilst driving through London , Stephen Waldorf was shot several times and severely injured by officers who confused him with another person whom they said they were seeking to capture . |
| 11 | The two Longner men who rode one on either side their borrowed minstrel brought him as far as the gatehouse , waiting in silence as he dismounted . |
| 12 | Northamptonshire signed him for four years he shared digs with Colin Milburn and though he progressed less spectacularly than his former Durham colleague , Scott proved an able bowler . |
| 13 | I returned it to the centre and exchanged it for another kit which also gave me a zero reading . |
| 14 | A.A. rang me at 4 o/c she returned on 2nd and had had grand time with Gwenda and families . |
| 15 | You 're not forgetting that I called you before that time myself , and you told me Bonanza had taken the girl away somewhere ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Normally , when I hit anybody with that punch they do n't get up , but as Ruddock was getting to his feet I just kept watching him and I could tell by his eyes that he was hurting bad . |
| 17 | If my final sentence reassured him in any way he gave no sign , watching dead-faced as I injected 10 cc of Prontosil . |
| 18 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
| 19 | Sid gave a growl and informed that as I knew nothing about modern techniques he had brought ‘ the lot . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ She knew nothing about any document she was to sign until it was brought to her by her husband . |
| 21 | ‘ Like Bogart , Steve brought himself to each part he played and something of each of them rubbed off on his personality . |
| 22 | He was particularly skilled with animals and he knew something about veterinary work which came in very handy when any of the animals took ill , also during lambing and calving time . |
| 23 | If she kept everything on this level there would be no danger of his probing into her background . |
| 24 | She was in first thing , I mean I sent it off that evening she was in first thing the next morning yes that 's fine . |
| 25 | This not only brought it into harmony with the existing regime , but also enabled it to further dissociate itself from its Judaic origins . |
| 26 | If the public acceptance of psychoanalysis meant anything for secondary selection it did mean that the scientificity of any description of the mind became more suspect — its subjectivity more evident . |
| 27 | Because you produced it on loose pages I could exhibit it month by month as you organised it . |
| 28 | It reminded me of those rooms they put guests in in horror movies — the sort where you know something horrible 's going to happen in the middle of the night . |
| 29 | She enjoyed his obvious fascination with it and it reminded her of another suggestion she wanted to make to him . |
| 30 | The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives . |