Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Alice or Bert filled it with hot water and it leaked causing injury , would either of them have an action ? |
| 2 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 3 | It was a statement of fact rather than the opening shot in an argument and Trent accepted it as such . |
| 4 | They were gradually weaned off the drugs and Valnet treated them with internal doses of essential oils instead . |
| 5 | She was nineteen , the age Maria had been when she had first felt the power of Luke 's attraction , and Maria regarded her with ironic envy , wishing she could have reacted as insouciantly , her awe and admiration as impersonal as Penny 's , Luke confined to some remote pedestal along with other out-of-reach heroes , contact undreamed-of . |
| 6 | It was already deep in debt , after repeated maladministration and corruption amongst its earlier inmates , and Wolsey seized it in 1525 . |
| 7 | She had five children , and her own independent income , and Creevey married her in 1802 . |
| 8 | Fairbrother was shuffling reluctantly out of the stone doorway as he returned , and Richard greeted him with sarcastic cheerfulness . |
| 9 | Although his groups , ‘ Tiddlers ’ , ‘ Ritz ’ , and ‘ Boys ’ , reflected increasing involvement in delinquent activities , they served the same function of enabling young people to achieve the sort of reputations and images denied them in mainstream society . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 11 | Sweden more than doubled its crop area between 1840 and 1880 , Italy and Denmark expanded it by more than half , Russia , Germany and Hungary by about a third . |
| 12 | Her hard work and determination set her in good stead for the confrontation she had had with the Johnson representative , Albert Buller . |
| 13 | A PENSIONER has told how positive thinking and determination pulled him through two strokes . |
| 14 | His lips twisted in scorn , and Lissa hated him for that look . |
| 15 | An insurance cover note also said it was a 1.6 and Jackson sold it as such to Robert Ross , of Bridgegate , Barnard Castle , for £3,695 . |
| 16 | Strawberry moved out of the burrow and Hazel followed him into another run , leading deeper down below the wood . |
| 17 | Omi crooked a finger for the waitress who offered the bill with subtle deference , and Omi paid it with subtle superiority . |
| 18 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
| 19 | Heat and smoke buffeted him with welcoming arms as he entered the bar . |
| 20 | But his honesty and modesty endeared him to many who valued his wise advice : not a few he encouraged to posts of greater responsibility and challenge . |
| 21 | Standing on opposite sides of the pile , Mina and Kāli beat it with wooden spades , softening the clay and mixing in the cow-dung . |
| 22 | One particularly violent swerve took it right off the counter and Finn caught it in mid air , upside down , wheels spinning . |
| 23 | Often only the absence of sabres and bullets differentiated it from full-scale war . |
| 24 | Before they left at the end of their week , Alastair and Stuart presented them with Scottish Nuclear baseball caps and T-shirts . |
| 25 | As they moved from one high-ceilinged panelled room to the next , signs of disorder and decay met them at each open door . |
| 26 | When Bill and Jenny bought it in 1977 , it was in need of a lot of tender loving care — today , much restored and refurbished it has a wealth of beams , stripped pine and attractive brick fireplaces . |
| 27 | It is deeply embedded in Western culture — so deeply that few are aware , for example , how far both Freud and Jung integrated it into Western psychological theories . |
| 28 | They even got the transparency of the house the wrong way round in their ‘ Country Homes ’ magazine , but their name and reputation insulated them against such elementary errors . |
| 29 | He obstructed collection of ship money in 1638 and Poole returned him to both 1640 Parliaments . |
| 30 | Whitelegge 's brother-in-law Victor Horsley [ q.v. ] served on the commission , and Whitelegge supplied him with pathological specimens from rabid dogs caught around Nottingham . |