Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [pers pn] [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't tell her it broke his heart every time the Argentines hurt a horse or he saw a terrified stray dog racing by the side of the road . |
| 2 | I too remember when Darlington was a county borough and we had a lovely town when we were responsible for our own efficiency and everything in the garden was lovely . |
| 3 | The interior of her car was a furnace and she frittered a few moments wandering in the graveyard after opening the car doors to cool it . |
| 4 | Golden hoops swung from her ears and she wore a fine gold chain around her neck . |
| 5 | ’ As I 'm sure you know , Curb and I had a brief contact with some Ardakkeans . |
| 6 | It 's my job to keep a check on the stock and it seemed a good chance to get something done … ’ |
| 7 | Well Camels was the lower no the bot the one of the bottom of the station was Bert and he married a Stronsay woman . |
| 8 | What we had to do was pop out to buy daddy a card and we got a paper and we got some biscuits and cake for tea for tomorrow . |
| 9 | I think he laid a joker card and I had a hand card up , so he had to do a kiss my hand . |
| 10 | I think I could survive on my own in New York if I had a credit card and I found a nice hotel like Kevin . |
| 11 | They wanted it to be rough sounding and we had a lot of discussions . |
| 12 | ‘ No , I was brought up in Berkhamsted and I spent a couple of years living in Oxfordshire not so long ago , so I 'm not completely inflexible about this . |
| 13 | During the weeks directly afterwards he confided his distress in Keith Gregory and it established a strong bond between them . |
| 14 | The girl had not regained consciousness and she had a very high fever . |
| 15 | On one occasion they locked him in a bedroom and he threw a wooden brick through the window and tore down the curtains . |
| 16 | On one occasion they locked him in a bedroom and he threw a wooden brick through a window and tore down the curtains . |
| 17 | He played semi-pro football and he founded a rugby club . |
| 18 | Moving to fine china , there was a very considerable overseas sales decline , particularly in Canada where there were lots of major retailers going bankrupt , but despite that , sales were over two hundred million for the fourth year in succession and we had a record December . |
| 19 | Her hand fell away from the switch and she took a step towards the typists ' room , her head cocked . |
| 20 | William de Sackville had contracted , or promised , to marry Albreda de Tresgoz , but he had in fact married Adelizia de Vere and they had a daughter , Mabel . |
| 21 | Guilt flooded her in waves and she put a hand to her temple . |
| 22 | I know of a lovely teacher who told her boys and girls in school about God 's plan for the animals and they had a mother bunny in her cage right in the schoolroom . |
| 23 | It is almost an affectionate tirade and she handled a male heckler very , very gently . |
| 24 | I closed my eyes and I got a different feeling |
| 25 | Fen had followed the direction of her eyes and she heard a sound which this time could be interpreted as amusement . |
| 26 | There had been a very masculine intention to punish in those dark eyes and she had a good idea what the punishment would have been . |
| 27 | When we started to go there at first there were a fella , a fella from Keighley who was a weaver and he bought a bit of land at the side of the er , the side of the chapel , or was it the school ? |
| 28 | He regarded her calmly through dark-rimmed spectacles and she felt a burst of unusual irritation . |
| 29 | However , the Baltimore was a good aircraft and it needed a direct hit to knock one down and so , despite our damage , I was able to get the aircraft back to base . ’ |
| 30 | Tweed put an affectionate hand on Paula 's neck and she managed a wan smile . |