Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This got me into some problems too with a chap in Braigh who was very fond of black Polled cattle . |
| 2 | She helped him in other ways also — she was a chauffeuse on occasions , tended him when he was ill , and sometimes acted as a secretary . |
| 3 | An X-ray later condemned me to six months away from this crazy pastime . |
| 4 | The factor showed them with fussy gestures where to set it . |
| 5 | Taking it out , she ripped it into tiny pieces then tossed the fragments into the bucket that still stood on the dresser like some awful avant-garde ornament . |
| 6 | He humiliated me in other ways too . |
| 7 | Sabrina kissed him on both cheeks then ran her hand lightly over his hair . |
| 8 | He became quite well known for his extreme left-wing views and often aired them on rare visits home . |
| 9 | However , because I knew her at close quarters only during her maiden years and have not seen her once since she went to the West Country to become ‘ Mrs Benn ’ , you will perhaps excuse my impropriety in referring to her as I knew her , and in my mind have continued to call her throughout these years . |
| 10 | Her sigh of exasperation reached him from 3,000 miles away . |
| 11 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 12 | ‘ I took her on six years ago and she finished up managing our design workshop . |
| 13 | She saw him from fifty yards away , coming towards her ; then he spotted her and when they came together he was smiling and had a hand outstretched with which he took her elbow . |
| 14 | I am not sure that we would think the dancing , except by some of the principals , quite so wonderful by today 's standards , but we saw it with different eyes then , and John would have for comparison his memories of the Cape Town Ballet Club 's brave but handicapped attempt at the last act of the ballet , Aurora 's Wedding . |
| 15 | Beatty remembered him from three years before , when Hackman had a small but impressive scene in Lilith , Robert Rossen 's final film , which starred Beatty . |
| 16 | She reminded us of olden-day ferries best forgotten . |
| 17 | The trouble with winning , she explained , was that it left her with bad memories rather than good . |
| 18 | He spotted it with two teenagers inside while meeting children from a school outing . |
| 19 | It would be interesting to know , however , whether the intensity of the debate at the time served to sear the official mind and closed it for many years afterwards to consideration of an alternative policy for sterling which substantially reduced its international role . |