Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Archdeacon realised he had been carried away , cleared his throat and gulped the last of the sherry . |
| 2 | With the decision made she felt a kind of temporary peace . |
| 3 | The other major discovery that Magnus made he called the ‘ righting reflex ’ . |
| 4 | Catlin 's display was the base for County 's first League win of the season and Warnock admitted he took a risk when dropping experienced keeper Steve Cherry , Meadow Lane 's player of the year . |
| 5 | Chevron 's swift counter-attack came a day after Pennzoil announced it had spent $2.1 billion to build up a nine per cent share stake in Chevron and said it planned to continue investing in the oil giant as a passive shareholder . |
| 6 | As the riders passed they called out : high-pitched cries which startled the birds that nested in the tree-tops . |
| 7 | Edouard admitted he 'd been attacked but denied it was anything to do with Barbara being there . ’ |
| 8 | It was with a little fillip of surprise that Pascoe realized she had n't recognized his voice . |
| 9 | Pascoe realized he 'd spoken in a whisper . |
| 10 | The board revealed it had established a sub-committee ‘ to progress the recruitment of a group chief executive from outside the Barclays Group ’ . |
| 11 | Casabona admitted he forced a woman lodger in the house to go to a bedroom where he tied her up with adhesive tape . |
| 12 | About this time , JWT announced they wanted four more ads , and another three more after that . |
| 13 | But his career all but ended that August day in 1967 when the MCC announced he 'd been suspended from bowling suspected of throwing for the rest of the season . |
| 14 | I 'll never forget the sense of joy that came over our evening congregation when Edwin announced we had just exceeded our target of £200,000 . |
| 15 | Handicapper Ted Kelly admitted it had been a difficult task rating Vintage Crop . |
| 16 | Nervous Tory candidate Tim Devlin admitted he did not know which way the vote would go . |
| 17 | Jessica announced she felt pissed and would have to go onto lemonade or leave the car outside the Amsterdam all night — which raised guffaws as to what she thought she 'd find left of it the morrow — and Mallachy offered to drive it home for her for twenty quid plus his taxi back , although he did n't have a licence . |
| 18 | Why when Mercutio assaulted you did you try to fight the enemy instead of Mercutio ? |
| 19 | Very significantly , in comparing his study with another carried out 19 years before , Gorer found there had been a marked increase in this expressed appreciation of the sexual factor in marriage — even more marked in women than in men . |
| 20 | If there was some difficulty involved which resulted in your leaving a job , avoid referring to it , but do not resort to outright lying as this will rebound badly against you if you are found out . |
| 21 | For a change of subject , they chose Sniffy Wilson , one of them having heard how colleagues had been tailing two armed members of the Goad gang , Donovan and Wytcherly , and at the end of a hair-raising fifteen minutes found they had arrested Sniffy as well . |
| 22 | And these were the positive ones and , remember , they come from within the ‘ old age ’ field itself where , incidentally , two groups reported they had retirement ages for their own committees . |
| 23 | Cecilia found she had clenched her fists and was driving her nails into the palms of her hands . |
| 24 | Mrs. Favor pretended she did n't hear him . |
| 25 | So he was operated on , and the vets found he had a misplaced colon , put it right and stitched him up . |
| 26 | Perhaps those artists mentioned who worked in several ways — like Hartley or Guston or Morris — will be shown in a manner that suggests some of the aesthetic connective tissue that is otherwise ignored , but if they are represented only by their signature work a great deal will be missing . |
| 27 | They were unhappy and in a hurry to get clear of the trees ; they started if a mouse stirred , and when an owl hooted they seized their swords . ’ |
| 28 | Her thoughts taking flight , Luce found they had stopped halfway down a bare stone corridor . |
| 29 | As the day of rehearsals approached I got my usual attack of the ‘ I 'll never do its ’ . |
| 30 | The rescue co-ordinators include Scottish Natural Heritage and the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals abandoned plans to use whale song on Sunday , when Mr Goold found he needed stronger amplification of his recordings . |