Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [art] [noun pl] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I asked the questions Wallace wanted me to ask . |
| 2 | I knew the huts Barrymore had spoken about . |
| 3 | I bought the kids Coca-Cola , Mr Feather , as much as they could drink . |
| 4 | Cos I was Mary wanted to go and see Si Simply Red at G MEX , and last weekend we co or weekend before last when they were on , their big , er we could n't because I had the kids Friday night and the two of them Saturday night and it , that was the two nights . |
| 5 | He was one of a select group , which included the justiciars Robert de Beaumont , first Earl of Leicester , and Richard de Lucy , and the treasurer Nigel , bishop of Ely [ qq.v. ] , who provided continuity between the old and the new regimes . |
| 6 | Aethelred was assassinated on 18 April 796 , perhaps at Corbridge , by a group of conspirators which included the ealdormen Ealdred and Wada , and the kingdom plunged into confusion . |
| 7 | As she scanned the titles Polly 's brows contracted in a puzzled frown . |
| 8 | When Minton brought back to Allen Street a Party of sailors , it was Paul who fried the chips Minton knew they liked to eat . |
| 9 | And then she recalled the words Emilia Frere had spoken : You have not known a man … you have not suffered at their nakedness . |
| 10 | As she climbed the stairs Sally could hear the low voices and the giggles coming from the bedroom she shared with her sister and knew what it meant . |
| 11 | She studied art formally at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London c .1910–14 and 1918–19 , but as a teenager learned much from her grandfather , George Howard , a self-taught painter who befriended the artists Edward Burne-Jones , William Morris [ qq.v. ] , and Giovanni Costa . |
| 12 | And she loved the stills Jay had dug out ; her lovely lips tasted the Melina Mercounand she raised her glass to Jay . |
| 13 | Yesterday he endorsed his doubles standing when he and his partner Jim Grabb , already through to the semi-finals of the Nabisco Masters doubles championship at the Royal Albert Hall , finished their round-robin group matches unbeaten when they defeated the Australians Mark Kratzmann and Darren Cahill 7-6 , 6-1 , 6-4 . |
| 14 | You can also understand why everybody identified the photos Hamilton brought down as being Hess . |
| 15 | When they reached the others Herbert Fraser , his homely face creased with impatience , was standing by the horses , but Miss Beard was still asleep and wakened only at their approach . |
| 16 | I remember how he described the messages Mme Guérigny maintained she received from Montaine . |
| 17 | These idealizations are referred to by Holdaway as the ‘ mental map ’ of the police ( 1983 : 63–4 ) , and he addressed the typifications Hilton 's police had of their area ( sites of ‘ danger ’ and ‘ trouble ’ , ‘ mump holes ’ , and so on ) , and the people they encountered ( ‘ challengers ’ , ‘ disarmers ’ , ‘ prisoners ’ ) . |
| 18 | He founded the Editions de Cluny in 1934 with the intention of introducing the wider public to great works of art . |
| 19 | William of Jumiéges alleges that he treated the æthelings Edward and Alfred with honour , adopted them as brothers , and sent messengers to Cnut asking that they be restored to their own . |
| 20 | It had the words USA Hickory written on it . |
| 21 | The Regis was so vast it absorbed the Writers Internationale just as it absorbed the British Congress of Funeral Directors . |
| 22 | As he left the talks Mr MacSharry said : ‘ We have had a meeting between the four commissioners and I will be taking part in the negotiations . ’ |