Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [adj] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And when she fell for her thirteenth I said , ‘ Ca n't you get him to leave you alone ’ ( not that that 's what she wanted , knowing her ) , and she said , ‘ Well , what can I do ? |
| 2 | Although they had no children of their own they did adopt a baby girl from the convalescent home for children at Morris Grange . |
| 3 | And after that brief excursion into the mysterious tongue of her beloved she said very little else for a considerable time . |
| 4 | Her hand drifted to the back of his head and without any conscious decision of her own it pressed lightly to bring his mouth to her aching , demanding breast . |
| 5 | Conversely , when Woosnam was taken ill so badly during the Johnnie Walker tournament in Bangkok earlier this year that on completion of his round he had to be rushed to hospital suffering from dehydration , he did not leave until he had first dealt with the hovering group of reporters . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , in place of his ideal he substituted ‘ rough trade ’ , favoured by other homosexuals of his class partly because it is easily discarded . |
| 7 | Mr. Ratcliffe told me he could not say that an average person would not be woken by a heavy goods vehicle passing by his window and , to his credit , whilst making the very best of his brief he did not suggest that the present position is not disturbing . |
| 8 | He did what little packing of his own he had to do , then ordered up a small supper : a club sandwich , ice-cream , bourbon and coffee . |
| 9 | He wondered how much of his own he had left . |
| 10 | It seemed that for reasons of his own he wanted to make quite sure that the woman knew how things stood , and really she could not have been left in any doubt , Maggie thought . |
| 11 | And now for some purpose of his own he shook her off , and with almost insulting lack of finesse . |
| 12 | gon na get a couple of he ah ah tapes that we had ruined of our own I said no . |
| 13 | But all through my twenties and into my thirties I swore quite testily that I would never have children . |
| 14 | With his right arm he swam , and with his left he waved wildly , shouting as loudly as he could . |
| 15 | As an adolescent and well into his twenties he had affected to despise the whole fairy tale — the people , the properties , the false virtues , the false security it represented . |
| 16 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 17 | In my prime I shifted my weight onto the front foot as the bowler approached the crease , being careful though not to commit myself to the front foot . |
| 18 | In their eighties they looked just the same as they did in their fifties , though I suppose , when we were teenagers , anything over 30 was indistinguishably old . |
| 19 | She was to become the sort of opportunist that John would have admired : her second marriage was bigamous and when she was in her sixties she returned to Britain from America in order to marry a consultant surgeon at Bart 's Hospital . |
| 20 | Maybe she had tried , but in her sixties she had slumped into forgetfulness . |
| 21 | In her twenties she acted with her husband Jacob Kalich 's Yiddish rep company in Boston , before touring Europe . |
| 22 | In her second , she was recklessly promiscuous , and in her third she met Charles . |
| 23 | In her fifties she began developing an elaborate theory-part religious , part mystical — on the natural supremacy of women and the need to return to a matriarchal society . |
| 24 | I 'll be like Geor Geo George 's mother one year and his mo and his mother was in her seventies he came in says to daddy ho gosh ! |
| 25 | In his twenties he had taken up with a girl called Freda and got her pregnant . |
| 26 | While he was still in his twenties he set up his own factory in Welwyn Garden City and became a millionaire . |
| 27 | In his forties it grew worse and he decided to see a specialist When Alan mentioned that he had taken a lot of antibiotics just before the urticaria began , the specialist suggested that he try a diet with no sugar and very little starch . |
| 28 | In his left he balanced a glass of scalding hot tea . |
| 29 | Now that he was in his mid-seventies he signed his rare letters to her ‘ Daddy ’ or even ‘ Pops ’ . |
| 30 | In his 20s he became a director of N.M . |