Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep . |
| 2 | As for the next ten years of Brookside , Eithne and the elusive Chrissie Rogers offer their best regards to the series that made them both household names . |
| 3 | The dank smell of the water was not unpleasant , and for years the scent of la Sologne that enveloped me that night would pierce my memory : a combination of stagnant water , slime , wild mushrooms , wispy dry grasses , sand and well-hung game . |
| 4 | Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time . |
| 5 | The thing I remember about him as an engineer was that we used to get these forms that told you each week who you were going to be working on , what the line-up was , and I saw this thing and it said David Bowie , Studio Two . |
| 6 | I mean as I said when I was filling in the questionnaire I was thinking well this , really this is my preference and you know I 'd much rather be in a job that allowed me some flexibility . |
| 7 | ‘ By the way , Piper , the patrol that relieved us this morning , one of their number had his leg blown off and has other serious injuries . ’ |
| 8 | Charlotte had blamed Grant 's affair on the work that kept him all week in a rented London flat while she and her three small daughters lived in their Suffolk cottage . |
| 9 | And if this chap said , the one that took it that night , he said there is no point in him doing it because he did n't have the coaches insured for enough . |
| 10 | James was continuing to play cricket throughout this period having become a member of the Maple Club , and while his reputation as a player was growing it was his overall knowledge of the game that brought him most attention . |
| 11 | Subsequent financial woes — he had quit his job as a broker to work on a show for the Boone gallery — sent Koons back to Pennsylvania , where he lived with his parents for several months before heading to Florida for a political campaign job that brought him enough money to return to New York . |
| 12 | That night he slept in an old cardboard box that he 'd found , and that gave him some protection from the chilling morning dew . |
| 13 | There were fairly obvious warnings here for a man contemplating the future independence of his own country , but , if he was shocked by what he saw here , it was the land freed by Toussaint Louverture , Haiti , that gave him most food for thought . |
| 14 | Somehow if I could only know what he was doing and who he was seeing , that gave me some kind of control over the situation . |
| 15 | It was what was within the bird the force that gave it such power , such vitality . ’ |
| 16 | She began to tremble , but although he must surely have known that she was not enjoying what he was doing , he said and did nothing to reassure her , nor gave her any sign of love or affection . |
| 17 | Answer guide : The point here is that at the date of the balance sheet the business did not own the asset nor had it any right to its use as all that had happened at that date was an order had been placed which could easily be cancelled . |
| 18 | He had wrapped her in a blanket off her bed and made her more coffee . |
| 19 | Is n't it time that Silver sorted things out and got us some money to buy players even if it means bringing in another board member . |
| 20 | We decided to pay for Poppy 's upkeep at the kennels , and visited her each week . |
| 21 | They barricaded the building and ocupied it all night . |
| 22 | I took each upon my knee and told them that Mamma is gone to Heaven to God Almighty , and asked them both to promise me that they would try to be good children and follow their mother to that happy place … ‘ |
| 23 | I wrote to the Earl personally and told him that Brownie Guides are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks , but received a reply saying that my letter had been passed on to the agent , Mr. Bishop , who handled all such matters . |
| 24 | Then I played a trick on Michael , who was a great chatter-up of girls at that time , and told him this person in costume was very keen on him , so he began to chat him up . |
| 25 | His instincts finally rang the bell and told him this man had more than a casual interest in what might be going on downstairs . |
| 26 | No doubt something else had diverted his attention , and afforded him another cue to spread confusion everywhere around him . |
| 27 | Henri Nallet , then French Agriculture Minister , apologized to his UK counterpart , John Gummer , at a meeting in Brussels on Sept. 24 and assured him that lorry drivers who had been attacked in France would be compensated . |
| 28 | I cleared it out and relaid it this morning , fortunately . |
| 29 | I undid my thermos and poured him some milk . |
| 30 | A little after 3 o'clock this morning he rapped at several doors in Marlborough Street ( adjoining one of the piers ) and informed them that fire had been set to one of the ships in the harbour [ and ] matches were laid in several others ; the whole world would soon be in a blaze , and the town also destroyed … |