Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When that failed I stuffed my right hand down its throat to stop it biting and then smacked it twice between the eyes with my left . ’ |
| 2 | As the day of rehearsals approached I got my usual attack of the ‘ I 'll never do its ’ . |
| 3 | All the girls opened their grammar books at the page Mademoiselle commanded then Mary-Lou found she had her English grammar instead of her French one so she reopened her desk to get the right book . |
| 4 | Her experience and expertise continued to be put to valuable use , and she found she enjoyed her increased leisure time all the more . |
| 5 | He met Yves Saint Laurent , then at Dior , and helped him found his own fashion house . |
| 6 | It was the expression which Bao Dai had used in June 1950 although , as the Americans reported He understood our delicate position since France was our friend in Europe' . |
| 7 | When the train stopped he dragged his heavy suitcase onto the platform ; if you could call it a platform because it was only some wooden planks resting on a pile of milkcrates . |
| 8 | She found it eased her aching eyes . |
| 9 | That Pakistani , or Indian , whatever he is , that 's got a fish shop , he 's bought , we were in there five minutes and before we came she knew his whole life history ! |
| 10 | Melanie wondered if she would have to take a tray to the basement but it seemed they had their own gas ring down there and brewed up continually for themselves . |
| 11 | She opened her eyes , and as he straddled her watched his swollen member trying to push into her . |
| 12 | ‘ I was alone in this new search as I was alone when I discovered I loved my own sex . |
| 13 | She attended the English Church until Lowe was dismissed and then tactfully discovered she had her own chaplain and therefore did not need to attend either of the rival churches . |
| 14 | The new government decided it wanted its own paper and so bought the Mail , which became a bi-weekly in 1967 and went daily in 1969 . |
| 15 | Margaret knew she was n't the easiest person to live with , she knew she had her mad days , but Dorothy tolerated , accepted , got on with her career . |
| 16 | There would have been no Hollywood without the homosexual community , and just as human beings , I felt we owed our fellow man a certain responsibility . |
| 17 | Well we took we took our bearded collie over to America and brought him back with us but he 's thirteen . |
| 18 | We thought we heard their high-pitched whistles at times but , knowing that the mynahs on Praslin mimic the parrots accurately , we could n't be sure . |
| 19 | Tonight , Coney Hill hospital defended the way the incident was handled , saying that when Gooding disappeared they pursued their missing persons policy … informing those that needed to know . |
| 20 | I mean , where did he think I thought he got his new car and his loft extension and his fridge-freezer ? |
| 21 | But we saved the Queen 's fair fame , and to Rudolf himself the fatal stroke came as a relief from a choice too difficult : on the one side lay what impaired his own honour , on the other what threatened hers . |
| 22 | Erm what did what did your other brothers and sisters do when they when they left school ? |
| 23 | It did not take me long because the big grin with which Yorkshire 's finest snooker player greeted me told its own story . |
| 24 | But as he left I caught his hang-dog stare |
| 25 | When our third partner left we lost his basic practice allowance , and because of the cost of employing locums we will end up substantially out of pocket . |
| 26 | ‘ She said they afforded her great relief . ’ |
| 27 | young bloke was down there , she said it was a good weekend really , she said they took their own drink . |
| 28 | Most of the youngsters said they liked their normal school dinner , but Ashley could n't agree . |
| 29 | Rain pattered gently on the unlined metal above , and he hoped it drowned his panting breath . |
| 30 | Yesterday , Jack Dromey , national officer of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , said it underlined his own belief that ‘ ministers and DML managers conspired behind Rosyth 's back to move to one dockyard by the year 2000 . |