Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As The Maniacs Came Killing I rolled three more into the trusty Smith and West Point and took up a manly pose . |
| 2 | And that 's another thing , I was told that Pete was pissed and Sue seemed to think he got off with me because he was totally out of it , Pete was . |
| 3 | Earlier in the day , Mr Corbett had said he hoped progress was being made on signing a deal . |
| 4 | During a break in which the designer 's assistant smeared the mirror above the fireplace with vaseline — ; Meredith had complained it reflected too much light — Dawn Allenby apologised for the drenching smell of eau de Cologne that pervaded her person . |
| 5 | When interviewed by police Hardy had said he had been watching the disturbances but denied throwing missiles . |
| 6 | Mr Hall said Miss Scott had explained she did not give notification of her mother 's death because she was afraid the authorities would discover the conditions in which they had been living . |
| 7 | Angalo had said he thought the inside of a plane would be a mass of wires and pipes . |
| 8 | When Richard had gone she sat watching the other guests ; Stella was chatting animatedly to a lean , grey-haired man . |
| 9 | Morse seemed to think you 'd found something in the safe which Matthew regarded as a negotiable asset . ’ |
| 10 | Jessica and Mallachy had moved beyond armed politeness , but not significantly , and there was a palpable edge to many of their exchanges that Karen assumed meant they fancied each other , but could not climb down enough to acknowledge it . |
| 11 | After a weekend of brooding silence and no service , Nigel began to think it had all been worth it . |
| 12 | Alexander had kept them leashed , curbed and checked , but now the leading nobles were almost drunk with a feeling of power and freedom . |
| 13 | Only later did she learn that what Rosemary had been doing back in Hazelbury that Saturday when Sebastian had met her had been to come and tell her parents personally that Derek had moved out from the flat they shared and was now living with someone else . |
| 14 | I asked him how the scene from the mystery had fared that morning , as Nell had described what had happened the day before . |
| 15 | He half rose from his seat but at that point the waiter arrived with a coffee Sandison had forgotten he had ordered . |
| 16 | When Giorgio had skipped I went back and thought no more about it . |
| 17 | Before the match Beck had said he hoped Ballesteros would be at his best and his wish was granted . |
| 18 | He steadied himself , held it coolly , and England had achieved what had seemed impossible only two hours earlier . |
| 19 | Sean was the first man who ever made love to her , and Ruth had thought she loved him too , but it was not a happy marriage and when Sean was killed in France , just before the Armistice was signed , she realised that she had been denying her true feelings for years . |
| 20 | But as Elisabeth stood watching she noticed that where the sea met the shore it broke in lively foam . |
| 21 | Topstock seemed to think he 'd done his duty . |
| 22 | The chains slithered again , and there was a scuttling movement in the shadows , and Grainne turned to see what crouched in the corner . |
| 23 | She sipped her tea and looked so long and thoughtfully into the fire that Carrie began to think she had forgotten her . |
| 24 | Yet the tone of her telephone call to Swans ' Meadow had implied she knew nothing of Samantha 's abduction — or of what her kidnappers had demanded in return for her release . |
| 25 | Mr Graham had said he stabbed Anthony Sweeny in self defence after catching him and another man breaking into a neighbour 's flat in Bartram Road , Brockley , south London , on August bank holiday . |
| 26 | A man in Canada wrote to say he had heard of the problem and was going to send a hundred dollars every month . |
| 27 | Vern had jammed it shut last night . |
| 28 | Colt had heard it said that after the war the country 's debt was 80 billion dollars . |
| 29 | There were no photographs of her in the house in King Street , and the photographs Stephen had seen he had wrested out of old Mrs Naulls . |
| 30 | But after a month when Vitor failed to reappear she began to relax . |