Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | M. I gave you that book to read because I thought you would feel identified with him . |
| 2 | The day I went up to university I left you all , country gentry all … country where my father was stifling . |
| 3 | I made a lot of mistakes as any young person does , but I never made the mistake of thinking I knew it all as far as the Africans were concerned . " |
| 4 | Cale became famous for violent demonstrations on stage ; there were plenty of screams , stage props , a green surgeon 's outfit , the odd tooth-spitting , the beheaded ( but long dead ) chicken episode which lost him half his band , the time he wore the Cambridge Rapist 's mask … |
| 5 | ‘ I keep telling my daughter that it was probably the cost of her wedding which brought it all on . ’ |
| 6 | But BodyShop 's appearance is more a reflection of accounting curiosities which gave it such a huge return on capital last year : likewise fire extinguisher company Nu-Swift , whose remarkable figures last year put it at the top of the ROC table . |
| 7 | In addition , my Grandfather , for twenty-odd years prior to his death , at the age of seventy two in 1907 , suffered from a chest condition which incapacitated him each winter . |
| 8 | While she changed , she could hear the others laughing and singing and when she emerged from the changing-room she found them all in the foyer waiting for her to emerge . |
| 9 | ‘ The agent who arranged it all , ’ he continued , ‘ was he perhaps a lawyer , name of Jaggers ? ’ |
| 10 | You 'll find enclosed the original photograph you brought me some time ago — the one I took the enlargement from . |
| 11 | We are to drink beer , eat cheese , get herded around in coaches , grab every photo-opportunity with ‘ the two lads who made it all possible ’ and officially launch the new Carter long-player ( EC-standard length ) ‘ 1992 — The Love Album ’ . |
| 12 | Gorman was singled out as the culprit who started it all and was promptly dispatched to the changing rooms . |
| 13 | Please pass on our thanks to all the Mums , Dads and kids who gave us such a great present for our involvement with the creche over the past couple of years . |
| 14 | They seemed to be doing fine , but just to be on the safe side we gave them another four days to adapt . |
| 15 | But in spite of her enthusiasm , she never tumbled to the silent response which greeted her each time she told the story . |
| 16 | True , he was an All-State footballer which gave him some excitement and fun ; but he always stayed in Neptune with Lorraine and with Mud . |
| 17 | During my sheltered youth I had two fleeting experiences which gave me some indication that I was not alone . |
| 18 | But for Sergeant Geoff Newitt , from Great Milton in Oxfordshire , memories of the night last July which earned him this honour are never far from his mind . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm sure my husband wo n't mind me saying that it was not his wealth which made us all respect him — although I 've heard my husband say many a time that the wealth of Mr D'Arcy of Moss Side by Manchester was of an enormity to make the sultans and pashas of the East take note — but it was not for that , not at all , that we , all of us who knew of him … ’ |
| 20 | Lucier had taken himself up to the gallery of the chapel — a climb which cost him all the strength that was left him . |
| 21 | We all had our recollections of our own special moments , but the abiding memory is of the blessed peach and tranquillity of the Shrine and the almost tangible bond of companionship and caring , love and laughter which bound us all together . |
| 22 | This bloke 's got two Lambourginis in the garage and er the latest BMW all from , he said he works seven days a week for it he said but he , you know , he 's just an ordinary bloke who got it all just working |
| 23 | That was once a week the bread , we used to have to collect the bread from Road , there was a small office at the side of the Infirmary I believe it was Mr or something like that , but we used to have to go to this office in Road and collect this four pound loaf every Wednesday and you did n't get another issue you had it all at once , so we had four four pound loaves , so we did n't know what new bread was after the first day , I 've never ate so much bread pudding in my life as I did then with a and er |
| 24 | The girl who found him that day by the lake was sent by destiny , by fate , the atheists ' substitute for God . |
| 25 | As Creator He began it all ; as all-powerful He sustains it all ; as judge of the world He will complete it all and bring it to its consummation . |
| 26 | I did n't know at that time what the content of the exhibition was because Sarah who organised it all had to write to lots of people and arrange the loans and you know it is fairly recently that we discovered for example the tate would lend , their pictures because its very rare that they do , erm , and , so we thought the next best thing , when I discovered the change of dates would be to have slides of the pictures that Sue was using , but erm oh dear then wonderful that Sue was using a another book and this term allocated and I was n't able to get the slides she picked , it was my fault that they 're not on slide due to the amount of time that we had to do this . |
| 27 | I remember an American pilot with about 200 hours , a twin-engine Commercial and full Instrument Rating who visited us some years ago . |
| 28 | It was Frank Foley who told him this , in his small office in Broadway . |
| 29 | When at last she gained some independence by taking a job which gave her some income of her own , she suddenly put her foot down . |
| 30 | And smoke billowed from seven huge masts which held it all together . |