Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [vb past] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could have sat down with only one of them and achieved the same guidance on weight and machining capability , but three of them came to the meeting , which he thought typical of engineers . |
| 2 | Even now a fast ion may be shooting through you that escaped a few days ago from the Jovian magnetosphere . |
| 3 | Actually , she could probably have married him and had a few nice babies with his laughing blue eyes , his loony hippy fluffy hair , and maybe her eyebrows . |
| 4 | He could only imagine girls in the evening when they all walked along and Marie stopped in front of a shop window to see that her clothes and hair were as she wanted and they all came up behind her and did the same so they were like a group photograph on a record sleeve , wiggling their fingers and poking out their tongues and saying ‘ Yoo-hoo ’ to their reflections . |
| 5 | But grammarians intent on prescribing rules of correct usage preferred he over they and stigmatised the latter as incorrect . |
| 6 | Edward lifted it and splashed a little water into the teapot , swirling it around . |
| 7 | Stupidly , the English followed us and made the same mistake . |
| 8 | He 's they 've opened an account with us and had a few bits and baps off us , so |