Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was never equal to Self in Citrine 's esteem , and he remained jealous of intervention by Self in matters of engineering and the development of policy on the generation side , for which his background and experience made him the natural senior voice among other engineers and managers . |
| 2 | Daddy and Mummy greeted her the next morning . |
| 3 | They stamped round the sofa and did that tricky bit of acrobatics that Sid and Ethel showed us the other night . |
| 4 | Atlantic City 's vast beach and boardwalk made it the American seaside resort of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Ezekiel was bold enough to long for this too , and God gave him the marvellous vision of the valley of the dry bones ( chapter 37 ) as an assurance that the longed-for day would indeed come . |
| 6 | From an early age , his mother and father showed him the illustrated books on the subject which they had brought back from London , and described at length the wonders of the ballets they had seen danced there by the Diaghilev company , ‘ when they were young and in love ’ , as John put it later . |
| 7 | Sandy and Dave had it the same . |
| 8 | But Michael called me the other day to say : ‘ I was n't getting anywhere until you contacted the insurance company and my agents . |