Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [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 | So a lawyer came , and of course I had my own office , confidential stuff , so he wanted to give it to me . |
| 3 | The day I went up to university I left you all , country gentry all … country where my father was stifling . |
| 4 | 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 . " |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You 'll find enclosed the original photograph you brought me some time ago — the one I took the enlargement from . |
| 7 | Little wonder then that during the build-up to her wedding she invited her former teacher Wendy Mitchell and pianist Lily Snipp to Buckingham Palace so that she could have dancing lessons . |
| 8 | They seemed to be doing fine , but just to be on the safe side we gave them another four days to adapt . |
| 9 | In effect we defined our own ‘ real work ’ and those activities we felt should have credence were given priority , so the role we pursued simply evolved . |
| 10 | Over five centuries they developed their own art and architecture , which were derived from Greek and oriental sources , but adapted to their needs in Italy . |
| 11 | And yet that high broad forehead was his , the little tilted nose was his , his the pointed — although in her case , flat — ears , and in her huge eyes he saw his own little ones . |
| 12 | This courage was to later re-emerge when , as an adviser , he fought to bring about educational change and improved resources , or , when against opposition he backed his own judgement at an appointment interview , or the courage to back a teacher in difficulty from whom others had withdrawn support . |
| 13 | In later years , when he was in the position of having to counsel others he found that these doubts were quite common , and in answering their doubts he answered his own as well ! |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | At the point when abolitionists turned to making the emancipation issue a mass campaign they published their own news-sheet , the Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter ( 1825–30 ) , followed by the Anti-Slavery Reporter ( 1830–3 ) and thereafter the mark of an antislavery organisation with claims to national standing was a paper of this kind . |
| 16 | In May he prepared his own aircraft for flight from the local farm . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Sneaking across the kitchen she made herself some bread and margarine . |
| 19 | For several minutes she had nothing more to say . |
| 20 | Like any other youth , I was thrilled by the annual visits of the big circus , and when the Al G. Barnes Circus came to town I paid my own way in to the ‘ show ’ and sat up that night writing the first big-top review for the Times-Herald , which Fred Workman accepted with alacrity . |
| 21 | In fact , for some years I had my own dog , first Bess and then Judith , and she was my responsibility to feed , groom and exercise . |
| 22 | For a moment she thought they all looked at her in surprise . |
| 23 | Just at the moment she had her own anxieties without being expected to worry about other people 's . |
| 24 | At this moment she wanted him more than she had ever wanted anything in her life . |
| 25 | Good job you saw it this morning and not last night then is it ? |
| 26 | It looks rather splendid , but it attracted so much attention that after two days she took it all out . |
| 27 | ‘ No , but after what you told me I have a suspicion you kissed me that night at Ib 's Club deliberately in an effort to convince her you 'd found someone else to replace her in your heart and in your bed . ’ |
| 28 | In its place we hoisted our own flag . |
| 29 | Later that evening we watched it all on television again . |
| 30 | What was happening in Europe whilst this was happening cos that 's after the war they had their own development and they developed a different type of machine called a flat machine . |