Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only as the car approached them did Ludens think he glimpsed a figure standing in the shade under a tree . |
| 2 | When it rained , she thought nature was crying at her weakness , and when the midnight wind blew she thought nature was angry with her . |
| 3 | The industry thought he needed redemption . |
| 4 | In the last frenzied seconds as the boat tossed I thought Rachel held a pistol pointing at me , but then I saw it was only her glass . |
| 5 | Her lover said she needed time and space to rethink her parameters . |
| 6 | The men behind the election campaign admitted they made mistakes . |
| 7 | An RUC inspector said a test showed he had 141mg of alcohol to 100ml of blood . |
| 8 | The Chancellor said he wanted talks with the opposition immediately after the Easter holidays . |
| 9 | The judge said he accepted Smith was suffering from a mental illness . |
| 10 | He was not hurrying , but his attitude suggested he thought Anna and Seb had been talking together for quite long enough . |
| 11 | When the waiter came he ordered coffee . |
| 12 | Inevitably , as capitalism developed it made sense to introduce more machinery , to move to a division of labour and to a conveyor-belt system of production . |
| 13 | The TV star and founder of ChildLine said the article alleged she protected teacher Alex Standish because of help he had given her team in exposing child abuse at Crookham Court boys ' school in Thatcham , near Newbury , Berks . |
| 14 | Oh , and er Lons Road in Weybridgeley when the war started we left Weybridgeley and went to er and then erm Twig Lane was it ? |
| 15 | He got it from La Belle Fertoniere : her husband knew she had syphilis and allowed Francis to seduce her . |
| 16 | THE CAPTAIN of England 's 1966 World Cup winners , Bobby Moore , last night disclosed he had cancer and spoke of his fight to beat the disease . |
| 17 | But these were rare occurrences , and when later a longstanding relationship developed it brought frustration and irritation rather than contentment . ’ |
| 18 | Kerri-Lisa McCammont , 17 , of Crawley , West Sussex , was convicted of manslaughter after Hove Crown Court heard she stabbed Joanne Thorns , 18 , three times when they argued over Scottish romeo Paul McKeown , 24 . |
| 19 | There was no electricity , either , but as night fell they lit candles . |
| 20 | The new WBC champion said he ranked Bowe among the best heavyweight fighters today , but was ‘ confident ’ he would beat him if the two met . |
| 21 | One former detainee said he saw Jacqueline Droully using the sun 's reflection in a mirror to send messages to her husband in another cell . |
| 22 | Christian Didier said he killed Vichy police chief Rene Bousquet with four bullets fired at pointblank range at his Paris home . |
| 23 | One City analyst said he thought Mr Ritblat would not be deterred by ‘ a little setback ’ and that the original offer was not too bad being a tax-efficient distribution of British Land assets to shareholders . |
| 24 | He said that when the Government realised it faced defeat on amendment 27 it had produced a second legal opinion . |
| 25 | A MAN told he had lung cancer gulped wine and valium before crashing his car into a tree . |
| 26 | " The kid remarked I had devils . " |
| 27 | The ringing seemed to go on and on and when at last a voice answered it took Jinny by surprise . |
| 28 | Says Chubby : ‘ One reporter said I made Bernard Manning look like Andy Pandy . |
| 29 | A police spokesman said they thought Drake knew both groups . |
| 30 | A police spokesman said it appeared Tony could have been struck a glancing blow by the wing mirror of a blue Transit-type van . |