Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alice quickly took the key and tried it in all the doors , but oh dear ! |
| 2 | " Moustachio , " the US intelligence agent who had already visited him in February , returned.He met the Shah in the palace in Rabat and told him of all the dangers that the US systems would pose for him-lawsuits to find his money , congressional subpoenas and demonstrations . |
| 3 | And yet … the thought crept back just before she drifted off to sleep … it had been rather nice that he had actually noticed her in the past , and noticed her to such an extent that he was now in a position to compare the woman she 'd become to the girl she 'd once been . |
| 4 | It was in light of this experience of priests who were barely capable of understanding the Latin Vulgate and Mass , or who juggled with a text and expounded it in such a way as to obscure its original meaning , that Tyndale now decided to translate the New Testament into English ‘ because I had perceived by experience , how that it was impossible to establish the lay-people in any truth , except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother-tongue ’ . |
| 5 | Jason and Rachel Sheffield rush between us , helping with the boat , and there is Jean who has been our main support and encouraged and organized us through all the long months of preparation , fed us , nagged us and even done my washing ! |
| 6 | Daly started his first round at 1pm , and finished it at 7.30 the previous evening . |
| 7 | He thus pioneered in this country the discursive , witty , exuberant , and surrealist style of humour he bequeathed to his close friend J. B. Morton [ q.v. ] , who took the column over in 1924 and developed it through half a century into an art form . |
| 8 | The same lover had made palm trees out of Edwardian ostrich feathers and tied them to all the newel posts of the four-storey staircase . |
| 9 | Yes I think we , we started doing that originally because er the people from the Epping group said they did that every month did n't they , they , they issued a press release and sent it to all the local papers , that seems to be the way of doing it . |
| 10 | Er they had a lock , made it a good lock and sent it to all the clients and this is what we can supply , and it used to meet the needs of clients and they 'd er they 'd erm buy it and it kept them in business , you see what I mean ? |
| 11 | You know , that in 1825 he bought an island on the Niagara River in America and offered it to all the Jews in the world to make a Jewish state called Ararat . |