Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when she looked back at him he saw the hatred in her eyes and knew he had been right . |
| 2 | She closed her eyes and kept them closed for quite a while , and when she opened them again it seemed as though she had gathered herself together . |
| 3 | But first , Nicholas walked uphill back to the manor with Loppe , and in the office there read the ledgers and saw what had been done . |
| 4 | It was as if , all of a sudden , all the hidden anxieties and fears she had hidden so expertly were now overwhelming her . |
| 5 | In contrast , the women who were booked at general practitioner units and delivered there had by far the lowest perinatal mortality rate ( 3.3/1000deliveries ) . |
| 6 | I went through a list of thanks and hoped I had n't left anyone out . |
| 7 | The horrible sufferings and uproar which resulted are fully described by two independent observers , Osbern and Eadmer . |
| 8 | But before I 'd got very far with my story he shrugged his shoulders and said he did n't believe me . |
| 9 | ROSS was impressed too with England 's performances in recent months and felt they scored some superb tries . |
| 10 | One of his crosses was Perdita Macleod , who had now been working full time for Ricky for nine months and felt she knew everything . |
| 11 | The daughter fidgeted through her long wild monologues and wished she wore prettier clothes . |
| 12 | He went not to collect particulars and feed them into a computer , he went to get down on his knees and get himself covered in mud and blood . |
| 13 | If they had difficulties then I broke each stage down into small steps and gave them repeated practice . |
| 14 | I woke up having 5 minute contractions and thought I 'd lost ‘ my water ’ on the loo , without really being sure ( if only you could have a trial run — but then you might not go through with it if you did ! ) |
| 15 | She pushed her hands deeper in her pockets and wished she had worn heavier gloves . |
| 16 | Fighting back tears , Ms Elizabeth Broadhurst , 28 , who had lived with Sgt Michael Newman , 34 , of the Royal Signals , for five years , said she felt ‘ very angry ’ about his killers and wanted them caught . |
| 17 | STUNG by the jeers and booing which greeted last year 's avant garde production of The Gondoliers , the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company says it has toned down the designs for its new version of The Mikado — despite the presence of a Lord High Executioner in flourescent pink leggings and yellow platform shoes , writes James Delingpole , Arts Correspondent . |
| 18 | Bernard Cotton , the England manager , forcefully expressed the view that England failed to beat the Lahore XI because the Pakistani umpires did not award them the penalty corners and strokes they had earned . |
| 19 | Bernard Cotton , the England manager , forcefully expressed the view that England failed to beat the Lahore XI because the Pakistani umpires did not award them the penalty corners and strokes they had earned . |
| 20 | We had to contend with some extremely high winds and found it needed extra guys to hold upright . |
| 21 | Soon , however , he was confronted with the ‘ actualities of war ’ during a visit to a casualty hospital , and the bullet-holed limbs and suffering he witnessed there helped purge him of such studied hauteur . |
| 22 | The police soon traced the couple 's movements and found they had made a number of telephone calls to Paris . |
| 23 | My binoculars I wore round my neck at the ready for all those puffins , razor bills and guillemots I expected to see on the way over . |
| 24 | This was so severe a problem that in the early twentieth century a petitioner to the asantehene protested against such death duties and said they had |
| 25 | PEEL the potatoes and leave them covered in water in a cool place . |
| 26 | Alarmed by the scale of public outrage over the attack , the Provisional Irish Republican Army accused the police of being more interested in protecting property than saving lives and claimed they had not wanted to hurt anyone . |
| 27 | It 's bad enough looking through the new sections and the main articles and seeing nothing mentioned less than E4 , 6b . |
| 28 | She was in her bedroom on Saturday morning making a list of the errands and shopping she had to do when she became aware of an excited chattering in the courtyard below her window . |
| 29 | Unfettered competition of dog eat dog policies must surely give way to positive employment policies and achieve what desired , a society set free from idleness . |
| 30 | The greatest importance of the Oklo reactors is that they are still there — after almost 2000 million years we can still find the fission products and demonstrate what happened . |