Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English . |
| 2 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 3 | For it was the Spirit who called Philip from his successful mission in Samaria to reach the Ethiopian eunuch with the gospel ( 8:29 and probably 26 ) , and led him on his further preaching tour as far as the very Hellenised city of Caesarea . |
| 4 | I talked to him after a recent gig in Manchester ( which saw Robben playing with Roscoe Beck on bass and drummer Tom Brechtlien ) and asked him about his new album . |
| 5 | It was , of course , hilarious in itself but then I got this bit of smoked salmon ( coloured red of course ! ) and draped it across her upper lip and it looked a bit like a moustache . |
| 6 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
| 7 | Lawrence I think gave his handkerchief to turned his nose up a little and stuffed it into his left pocket . |
| 8 | ‘ Found her on half an acre in Buckinghamshire with her mother and got her for my youngest lad . |
| 9 | I have drawn you in , and involved you in my own anger at my son 's disobedience . ’ |
| 10 | The effort he had put into creating another character , a Daniel Miller , would have turned in upon him and transformed him into his own words . |
| 11 | ( Jones , as everyone would have expected , welcomed his vanquished opponent on board with great courtesy , and invited him to his own wrecked cabin for a glass of wine . ) |
| 12 | He saw the wisdom of this ploy and invited me to his next fight , when he lost his title . |
| 13 | Getting no response , she took his hand and moved it towards her bare dimpled knees . |
| 14 | Reached into her mouth with his tongue and moved it across her uneven teeth . |
| 15 | It controlled public resources in the manner of a private owner , and used them for its own purposes . |
| 16 | It is therefore a bonus for the theory that clay replicators synthesized organic molecules and used them for their own purposes . |
| 17 | It is thought that the Christians of the early Church valued such phrases which had been spoken by Jesus and used them in their original Aramaic form . |
| 18 | Searle was a rogue and used it for his own purposes . |
| 19 | The taxi bill arose after he opened an account for Nalgo with Mersey Cabs without authorisation and used it for his own personal use as well as official business . |
| 20 | He greatly influenced modern methods of excavation : he deliberately studied Pitt-Rivers ' methods and modified them to his own ideas . |
| 21 | She took off her shoe and put it on the table and modified it with her two index fingers . |
| 22 | These are acceptable , but the witch who , at ‘ by the pricking of my thumbs ’ , held up his thumbs and twiddled them for us all to check out was excessive . |
| 23 | The 24-year-old Iro picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in the second Test in Auckland in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly three weeks ago . |
| 24 | He picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly . |
| 25 | But his personality — assertive and brash yet essentially both cheerful and tough — gradually communicated itself to the public and helped him to his greatest triumph : his victory in the 1948 election . |
| 26 | Unable to accept again the superstitions he had discarded , nevertheless with time and misfortune he found himself turning back to the three deities who had guided his early life , and helped him through his harsh apprenticeship as a scribe : the reasonable Thoth , ibis-headed , god of the scribes ; Horus , son of Osiris ; and the protector of the hearth , Bes — the little god of his childhood . |
| 27 | He went back for the woman pedestrian he knocked down near a busy roundabout and helped her into his white Sierra car . |
| 28 | We sat stuffing ourselves with smoked-salmon sandwiches , slurping Earl Grey , while she charmed and intimidated them with her stolen airs and purloined graces . |
| 29 | On a Jamaican cattle ranch acquired in settlement of some debts , he freed the slaves and transported them at his own expense to Philadelphia for resettlement . |
| 30 | Such countries were allowed to buy non-military materials , provided that they paid cash for them and transported them in their own ships ( the " cash and carry laws " ) . |