Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was pleased as punch when yer farvver came 'ome an' told me Joe Maitland 'ad offered 'im that job . |
| 2 | Religion had ruined them all . |
| 3 | When I had finished , and when we had counted the money in the hat ( which we did round the corner , discreetly ) , I realized that four songs had earned us enough to pay for a proper meal , each , in a cheap restaurant . |
| 4 | During that half-hour coffee break Jeff had told her all about Silvia and about how Guido was trying to break up the romance . |
| 5 | Of course , Matey was not best pleased that she had taken so long to come home — or so McAllister thought when the older woman came towards them after Dr Neil had let them both in . |
| 6 | This fear had changed them all . |
| 7 | Sylvie had left him these two . |
| 8 | We realised that only two cars had passed us all morning . |
| 9 | Molly had told him all about Mrs Curdle and gipsies ' ways . |
| 10 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 11 | Ms Magas had predicted it all . |
| 12 | He believed if only his parents had given him more confidence and the right backing , he would have made a very good male model . |
| 13 | Still looking doubtful , she went off to fill the order , and when Ellie had eaten it all , down to the very last scrap , and had two cups of coffee , she came back to stand at the table , full of admiration and amazement . |
| 14 | Katherine had drawn it all with snail-like whorls of her pen , a multitude of curving strokes , so that the landscape had a hectic life of its own , at once like and unlike itself . |
| 15 | But this fighter sheered-off without firing a shot , after our rear gunner had given it several short bursts . |
| 16 | Nannie had taught her that one , and she felt it was very true . |
| 17 | Mrs Caswell had fed them all poached eggs and toast once they had got Blagg bedded down . |
| 18 | Brenda had heard it all before when she ate her lunch-time sandwiches in the room , halfway between a kitchen and a sitting-room , which was still called the junior Mess . |
| 19 | Bossard was sentenced to 21 years ' imprisonment and once again it seems that the Russians were willing to sacrifice an agent , probably because Bossard had given them all the details he could of the American rocket-guidance systems , in order to enhance the credibility of Top Hat so that he could continue peddling disinformation . |
| 20 | Damian Flint had shown her that with just one kiss . |
| 21 | The ancient Greek concept of diet had impressed us both . |
| 22 | It had started out as a ship 's boiler but Selwyn had acquired it some years before to ensure a plentiful supply of soft water for his garden . |
| 23 | Matilda had read it many times with fascination . |
| 24 | Chris Patten had recruited them both at about the same time . |
| 25 | His imagination had created it all . |
| 26 | The years had changed them both , matured them too — Katherine more so than Dermot . |
| 27 | Laurence had given her some money which fortunately she had n't been too proud to accept . |
| 28 | Yet strangely my time at Bristol had given me some relevant training . |
| 29 | 1 ) Zimbabwe skipper Andy Ferreira had got it all worked out . |
| 30 | Delta had taught him that fear was all in the mind . |