Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I got home last night and found the yard door bolted I thought the old man had deliberately locked me out but the police reckon that whoever killed father was with him then — while I was banging on the door , trying to get in . ’ |
| 2 | Even as I shouted I sensed the utter absurdity of my words and the ludicrous figure I presented , a slovenly , plump young man , so obviously clumsy and ineffectual , rabbit 's ears of shirt-tail escaping from my waistband . |
| 3 | As the bath filled she inspected the sparse supply of male toiletries , interested to find Penry Vaughan was not a man for sexy French fragrances . |
| 4 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 5 | As a result of the meeting Devi Lal apparently believed he had the Prime Minister 's approval to reinstate his son , although Singh subsequently denied that he had given his approval to such a move . |
| 6 | Mr Maginess added he believed the only answer was to tighten security measures and provide a stable political situation where problems could be solved . |
| 7 | Got a bloody assignment to give in and I forgot I lost the bloody address ! |
| 8 | When the bacon arrived she tucked the greaseproof package down the side and gave the bag to the child . |
| 9 | When police arrived they found the two victims lying on the floor . |
| 10 | Three independent sources confirmed he gave the positive test , it added . |
| 11 | A man named William Talbot also claimed he sold the second gun to Henry . |
| 12 | Lamb claimed he spotted the Pakistani bowlers behaving illegally and brought it to the attention of umpires John Hampshire and Ken Palmer . |
| 13 | And just a week before the Council opened he warned the papal curia that it must not be an obstacle in the way of reform . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought it was food poisoning because I had prepared fish which I had not cooked properly and when the doctor arrived he thought the same way . |
| 15 | By the time the train reached Ealing Broadway they had been in and out of every car and as the train returned they followed the same routine . |
| 16 | In the hush that followed they heard the back door slam . |
| 17 | When Dong returned he found the dead man was not heavy . |
| 18 | When he returned he joined the local carpenters ' union , and in 1861 he persuaded his Sheffield union to become part of the newly established Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners ( ASCJ ) . |
| 19 | He then took his engineering skills into the Alfa factory where he soon discovered he enjoyed the organizing side of the sport more than racing . |
| 20 | The EC decided she had the same right to benefits as a man or a single woman . |
| 21 | What she saw made her read the whole page carefully . |
| 22 | ‘ , we are told , and when the archdeacon who rebuked her became the next bishop of Carthage she had her majordomo appointed as a rival , with the support of the main body of Numidian bishops . |
| 23 | A CAB driver and an unemployed man will make close to £2.5 million after a jury ruled they wrote the Fifties classic Why Do Fools Fall In Love ? |
| 24 | With the legacy she left me when she died I bought the little flat on Fernhill . |
| 25 | So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought I recognised the royal tones of the battleaxe queen . |
| 27 | I thought I recognised the little shit . ’ |
| 28 | Maggie felt she had the upper hand to some extent and this had to be talked out . |
| 29 | For herself , she wished she could have bought one of the paintings , she knew she had the ideal space for it on one of the walls of her long white sitting room in Kington Square . |
| 30 | She felt , in her new severity ( for want of a better word ) only half alive , she knew she wanted the old enthusiasms and passions and expectations to course through her and arouse her . |