Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 " My sons told me you lost your wife in a swimming accident four years ago , Monsieur Devraux , " she had said at last , speaking quietly in French .
2 ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’
3 Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may be amused to hear that one of my sons spotted you the other day training with Korchnoi and the Brighton and Hove Albion football team .
4 My sons gave it to me .
5 ‘ If I say one of my contacts tipped me off , I expect you 'll pester me for his name . ’
6 ‘ All right , then : one of my contacts tipped me off . ’
7 Such an appeal was not to be resisted , but first I had to tell Meehan that if I did look into his case , I must feel myself free to come to whatever conclusions my investigations led me , ‘ whether in your favour or not ’ .
8 My notes told me what was to happen next , but my brain no longer knew how to move plot and people forward .
9 I had to do private and public penance , take a solemn vow that , after I was ordained , I would accept whatever duties my superiors gave me . ’
10 But when I returned from military service in 1960 , my employers asked me to represent them south of the border , in that troutless land beyond Mr Hadrian 's Wall known as England .
11 On the fifth , and top shelf , my books told me stories about a girl with long hair , a strange little man with a funny name and two children and a witch .
12 It 's the other kind of thinking I 've never been able to muster , the long-term stuff , ‘ Never confuse strategy with tactics , ’ one of my tutors advised me , but I ca n't even remember what the words mean .
13 My sins found me out : the pain went , but I was so sick and ill that we had to come home .
14 Then I said , or perhaps one of my voices said it for me , " I do n't know .
15 My screams woke me .
16 ‘ Then perhaps my eyes deceived me ?
17 And and my ears went you know , what on earth are you spending all this money for on that
18 ‘ How my knees held me , I do n't know .
19 My guards shot him . ’
20 I think my guards bribed him to let us pass .
21 One of my gentlemen taught it to me .
22 I recoiled so much I thought I was going to topple backwards but the cable round my legs kept me anchored to the beer keg .
23 My brothers told me I 'd end up killing someone .
24 The social pressures of my peers precipitated me into a frenzied bout of heterosexuality , usually accompanied by drunkenness .
25 ‘ One of my pictures showed him hugging both little girls in the pool .
26 I was being crushed at the sides but my feet felt they were being pulled . ’
27 I felt strange , almost disembodied , but my feet carried me to the green door and I pushed it open .
28 My feet decided they needed a day off .
29 I suppose my experiences and my burns made me both irritable and hasty , for I responded by flicking a sonic grenade at him , from another ring , that scrambled all his synapses .
30 My senses took me through the bars that confined me .
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