Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That great dust-nebula hid within it dozens of hellish solar systems which witnessed no stars , but only rippling rainbow auroras forever a-dance . |
| 2 | Superintendent said to me one day , ‘ You do n't like this fellow very well . ’ |
| 3 | Paul Hentzner , a German traveller , has described the scene in the Presence Chamber as the Queen passed through it one Sunday on her way to chapel . |
| 4 | The guard shouted to him three times but he took no notice at all . |
| 5 | But as a first-half Merson free kick ricocheted to him eight yards from goal he miscued . |
| 6 | Each riding forester had under him two or three walking foresters , who made annual payments to him equal to the amount of the farm which he paid to the warden . |
| 7 | ‘ You really should be riding a horse , ’ Artemis 's stepmother said to her one morning as they waited for the hounds to move off . |
| 8 | In the display the Godfather 's desk had a number of books on it ; the waxworks owner reached for them one by one . |
| 9 | My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’ |
| 10 | The solution came to her one evening when Nahum commented on her excessive pallor . |
| 11 | ‘ If you want to do something useful , ’ my mother said to me one day , ‘ you can help me propagate the cactuses . ’ |