Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Words failed me at this last find … but not so my companions ! |
| 2 | My history books told me about those wicked aristocrats of the nineteenth century , they used their position as landlords to force their tenants to , to vote in a certain way , to force their tenants in other words to take up a particular position on a matter of controversy . |
| 3 | I come from a fanatically rugby-conscious Welsh miner 's family ; five of my six brothers played it with some distinction . |
| 4 | Nationalist protestors from Kurdzhali arrived in Sofia ( the capital ) on Jan. 3 to petition the National Assembly , their numbers swelling on the following day to around 10,000 as supporters joined them from several parts of the country . |
| 5 | Much as their fans loved them for all their quirks , the aesthetics and comfort of a ground did not cross the mind of many football directors . |
| 6 | At Stackpoole Junction the two railwaymen put her on another train and sent her home . |
| 7 | Forest fans gave it to that slag Clough and in the long run they got a bitter reward . |
| 8 | No eyes beheld them for any of its windows ; no one beat a carpet or scraped a cauldron or swilled out their slops . |
| 9 | His rounds took him to most parts of the building and Rain was eagerly accepting that it must have been Stan on the second floor making her jumpy when he mentioned that since the murder he did not go into MacQuillan 's room or those next to it because the police were usually there . |
| 10 | Impatience with her own see-saw emotions robbed her of any desire for sleep . |
| 11 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
| 12 | The sheer weight of goodwill fax messages told them of this fact . |
| 13 | When international marketing first appeared as a distinct subject few writers described it by any title other than that . |
| 14 | Old tombstones provided her with that lit match to the powder trail of her imagination . |
| 15 | Seven editors rejected it despite several reviewers indicating that it was well written . |
| 16 | And then he gave order that all the windows of the towers which looked in upon the town should be closed up , that the Christians might not see what the Moors did in their houses ; and the Moors thanked him for this greatly . |
| 17 | To Selborne it was no more nor less than " robbing the church " and many Unionists saw it in such simple terms . |
| 18 | The serveuses reminded me of those I had seen in paintings by Monet . |
| 19 | The kindness of our neighbours helped us over this difficult period . |
| 20 | Trees surrounded it on all sides . |
| 21 | In the May issue of Latch On her article on knots reminded me of another tip — when using a length of yarn for a contrast marker ( on tension swatches or to mark the position for the sleeves , for example ) , make a small slip knot in the end of the yarn and place this on the needle . |
| 22 | The Sunday Times summarized it in these terms : ‘ Iraqi whirlwind campaign ends in war of desert trenches . ’ |
| 23 | Their neat bottoms reminded me of those of failed bullfighters . |
| 24 | The corner that Japan had been backed into by economic sanctions left her with little alternative . |
| 25 | And the third was as a confessor , because he knew that many souls valued him in this work . |
| 26 | The Soviet authorities presented it to those in the Royal Navy and merchant service who operated in Russian waters during the war . |
| 27 | A few hours earlier Mrs Valerie Williams was robbed of her firm 's wages on a quite road in South Wales when masked men overtook her in this stolen car and forced her to stop and then rammed her vehicle from behind with another car . |
| 28 | Next , they offered to pay the woman of the house for the milk , and she asked a shilling , at which some of the men goaded her towards more ; when she refused to raise her price , Boswell gave her a half-crown ( influenced , I feel , not so much by her honest generosity , but by her shapeliness which he described as ‘ comely almost as the figure of Sappho ’ ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Around 80 Subject Assessors visited us during that fortnight , and every module was looked at . |
| 30 | His crown of thorns wounded him like any other victim of torture . |