Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had the bottles placed under his bed , and when the ward sister tried to interfere he fended her off with the crook while he produced medical certificates , all signed by army doctors , stating his need for regular supplies of the stuff . |
| 2 | As the light began to fail he retreated into the shelter of the fir plantation to watch the road for McQuaid 's car . |
| 3 | When the light began to fail he despatched Tilney with the bat and ball to the gym , and sent the others ahead to the boarding annexe . |
| 4 | It was over a week since the children had been removed , and both police and the Social Work Department had said they had made independent investigations which had led to their decision to take such drastic action . |
| 5 | And I hoped the Corporal had noticed I 'd said ‘ you can get to high ground ’ and not ‘ we can get to high ground ’ . |
| 6 | But since the school term had started they had spent hour after hour in intense , ill-informed conversations about who was who in seventh-century Medina . |
| 7 | Once the Knights had made their challenges ready for the tourney held at the end of the show and the demonstrations of dancing , archery and squire practice had started I wandered off outside the arena to demonstrate spinning with a drop spindle . |
| 8 | Once out of the bustling grimy city and on our way we motored into the heart of rural England , through expanses of green rolling hills with the odd kestrel hovering by the roadside looking for prey , and just as the sun began to set we passed Stonehenge , the strange stone monoliths eerily silhouetted against the dusky pink horizon . |
| 9 | In the late 1930s a new pattern of earlier marriage began to emerge which had not been seen in the West for centuries . |
| 10 | When the coach started to roll I said , " Well , I guess we 'll be together for a while . " |
| 11 | ‘ The gate guard did say he saw a blanc leave shortly before the explosion . ’ |
| 12 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 13 | The committee had heard she sold her kidney for £3,265 . |
| 14 | Meanwhile another issue had arisen which absorbed a great deal of its energy , that of Asiatic , and particularly Chinese , seamen . |
| 15 | When the guard had gone he had to keep his blindfold on while he overcame his anger and humiliation . |
| 16 | Anne Hammond 's courageous acceptance of the cruel hand fate had dealt her had moved her far more than she would have believed possible , the more so because it only seemed to emphasise her own feeling of helplessness . |
| 17 | Some arty type had said he wished to buy |
| 18 | Formerly burdened by the weight of the ice it had sunk locally ; once the ice had melted it started to return , or rebound , to its former level . |
| 19 | The question wanted to know who lived there in Roman times . |
| 20 | This was particularly so in connection with the sexual adventures hinted at in the title — adventures which became a sort of leitmotif , in that the author seemed to feel he had to have one in every seven or eight pages , preferably with some piquant variation . |
| 21 | The Lynx 2 is worth £99.99 and comes complete with a Batman Returns cart guaranteed to keep you occupied for hours on end . |
| 22 | As the wine took hold I glanced in her direction with increasing frequency , often to find her already looking at me . |
| 23 | Now that the moment had come he had no stomach for it . |
| 24 | At first his wife never left him , since the doctors had told her that it was vital that he should find her there when he came out of his coma , and then when the immediate danger had passed she visited him three times a day and gave him his meals . |
| 25 | The thirty minutes Roman had allowed her had just ended when he came into the sitting-room . |
| 26 | She 'd already seen Il-Maltija , a country dance which Roman had told her began in the royal courts of the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | When the evening had ended she 'd disappeared into the pub toilet and from there she 'd disappeared , full stop . |
| 28 | From the beginning the group had said it wanted the paper to be international , and It was . |
| 29 | No encore was needed , despite the clamour for one and the band left knowing they 'd converted all who had come with an open mind . |
| 30 | No encore was needed , despite the clamour for one and the band left knowing they 'd converted all who had come with an open mind . |