Example sentences of "[noun pl] [unc] [noun] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 In the end she suggested that I should just come and listen , and for politeness ' sake I agreed .
2 I tried just about every diesel and the Peugeots performed better than other manufacturers ' diesels I tried . ’
3 During her 13 months ' service she escorted more than 700 ships across the world 's beleaguered oceans , without loss of a single one .
4 ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job .
5 There was the largest hornets ' nest he had ever seen , hanging right in his path .
6 The women ended up having to negotiate everything through their husbands , and when they were expected to work for nothing on their husbands ' plots they refused and demanded full payment .
7 Put at its simplest , it was jealous suspicion , for when she had looked through Barbs 's windows she had seen Memet 's straw hat sitting on the sill : he always put his hat on the window-sill .
8 At Engineers ' Hall we listened to experts like D. A. D. Reeve , chief executive of the Severn Trent Water Authority , D. Gaulter , director general of the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors , and W. T. Devenay , director of water , Strathclyde Regional Council .
9 Yes , of course — how silly of me , they 'd gone up market now , and it was funeral directors ' suppliers I needed .
10 However , being unwilling to contradict her parents ' wishes she took three science A-levels rather than the arts subjects she preferred .
11 When I were at the parents ' evening I said does that mean er he never sits still and he 's always tearing about and
12 To the crews ' embarrassment I stumped up on the bridge wearing the eye patch and the parrot on my shoulder with the added embellishment of an iron hook up the loose sleeve of my coat , to take Venturous alongside in full view of a crowd of holidaymakers lining the pier who , although somewhat mystified , obviously enjoyed the show .
13 For appearances ' sake I maintained the fiction that I was setting up an independent enterprise in the EFL field .
14 With the pilots ' help we telephoned Porto to find that there was CB activity forecast for the rest of the day .
15 Late one afternoon on my way to the kennels with the dogs ' bowls I passed the lighted kitchen window and stopped because I heard his voice .
16 After the banks ' nationalisation he sold most of his interests in the dozen or so companies he had created and drawn his wealth from , and committed himself to combating the existing political system .
17 About three weeks ' pay he had taken from Rab .
18 The gleaming black exterior with the polished silver lamp-brackets and the forbidding curtains within that could be drawn to hide its occupants from prying stares told him it was a mourners ' carriage he had spent the night in .
19 Actually , I missed some good ones in the couple of days ' holiday I took ; if I 'd just bothered to look at a single fucking news-stand after I left Stromeferry I 'd have seen this story starting to break about this guy — ‘ The Red panther ’ the tabloids decided on eventually — murdering these right-leaning pillars of the community .
20 After a few days ' dialling he knew it by heart .
21 In two days ' time we reached Pakoku where many of the Anglo-Burmans begged me to disembark and try to walk out of Burma with them , but Rachel was still very sick and I said I would go on to Mandalay and hope to find a doctor there .
22 Nicholson , while rejecting Corman as his ‘ mentor ’ gladly acknowledges the start and subsequent ten years ' work he gave him .
23 After three years ' work he submitted a draft only to have it irrevocably vetoed without any intelligible reasons given or any consideration of amendment .
24 In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me .
25 After Franco 's death and after 38 years ' absence he returned to Spain in 1977 , at the invitation of Suárez , and was in 1978 appointed president of the Catalonian regional government .
26 Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) .
27 ‘ Just for old times ' sake I went , not that there is much to see !
28 Strangely , she felt more resentful of this lady 's peremptory commands than she ever had of those of the merchants ' wives she had previously been obliged to swallow .
29 Robin Barton had been asking his dad , Bernard , about setting up a tropical aquarium , and when they saw PFK 's beginners ' series it gave them the final incentive to begin .
30 After fifteen minutes ' work he had found nothing of interest .
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