Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wireless and the cinema gave me such enjoyment that I decided I 'd become an actor , a film star . |
| 2 | He went there to Dalby Forest one day in the afternoon loaded them all up and set off for Wales . |
| 3 | ‘ After the birth Tony and I both felt very shaky and the midwife got us some tea right away , while they were tidying me up , just to calm us down . |
| 4 | The experience taught me that , difficult though crofters sometimes are , they are generally more realistic , and often more far-seeing , than those who seek to regulate their affairs . |
| 5 | ‘ The university gave me some nice dinners and said ‘ do n't worry about coming back to work . |
| 6 | The confrontation convinced them that , on the contrary , they were so dogmatic and sure of themselves that it was obvious that they had no intention of being deterred . |
| 7 | The card screamed it all . |
| 8 | A sound from the doorway made them both turn . |
| 9 | He wrapped me in a warm coat and placing me in the car took me several miles over the moor . |
| 10 | Anyway , one morning the Commandant called them all together on the parade ground . |
| 11 | ‘ When the tocsin sounded we all left this room . |
| 12 | The faint glow on the skyline gave him some guidance , but apart from that , he could n't tell whether he was moving towards the shore , or across the bay , or just circling endlessly . |
| 13 | The harsh , jarring ring of the telephone stunned them both into silence . |
| 14 | The blurting ring of the telephone caught them all unexpectedly . |
| 15 | Irritated by her presence , Henry had mocked and teased her nevertheless , for he could be quite beastly when the mood took him that way . |
| 16 | Benny usually went home around four-thirty unless the boss offered him some overtime , and Joe Maitland had not arrived back from his buying trip . |
| 17 | There are five species of this large piratical sea-bird , and they are notoriously difficult to separate , but the warden told us this was a roosting place ( they do not breed in the Seychelles ) for mainly immature greater and lesser frigate birds , probably from the huge breeding colonies on Aldabra . |
| 18 | ‘ The sun taught me that history is not everything . ’ |
| 19 | And when the sun appeared they all died and then the people who were to be the people of Amantani came from other islands , from peninsulas in the south … ’ |
| 20 | Signe said , ‘ That man who just flew off in the aeroplane taught me some words of Latin . ’ |
| 21 | Where the editor rattled her half dozen strings of large beads and remarked with a toothy grin : ‘ They say it 's the fashion — ’ Where Gerald , the art editor — who was reputed to have a fabulous house on the Chelsea Embankment full of priceless works of art — was so sensitive that he had to have a soundproof office specially built for him , while his assistant Jeremy padded along like his superior 's spaniel , and if Gerald wore a shirt of subtle pink on Monday , his minion would appear in the same shade on Tuesday . |
| 22 | The sub-title said it all : Celibacy and the Church . |
| 23 | Oh the teacher told us this one . |
| 24 | The Dents owned the very first car in Baldersdale and that created quite a stir I remember being at school when they first drove it round the place and the teacher brought us all out on to the road to have a closer look at this amazing thing . |
| 25 | The punishment took him most of the afternoon and his legs felt weak and wobbly when he finished . |
| 26 | The moment embarrassed them both to silence . |
| 27 | The recoil flung them both back . |
| 28 | The coroner turned them both away . |
| 29 | The room enclosed them both : exclusive and private . |
| 30 | Then he got peevish and decided on a rain storm and the dinosaurs were so overgrown that they would n't fit into the ark so the flood destroyed them all . |