Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malengin Fole led them through several apartments , all of them apparently abandoned . |
| 2 | Nicandra led them by all the ways she had known and disregarded since childhood . |
| 3 | Roger approached her with another tall , fair man . |
| 4 | Evesham drew them from several Cotswold parishes ; the abbot of Owston received 2 marks a year from Tickencote . |
| 5 | ‘ Edward told you about that ? ’ |
| 6 | I believe Surere encouraged him in this . |
| 7 | Details are not yet available , but it is possible that Dr Threadneedle turned her into some sort of cyborg death machine . ’ |
| 8 | At the door , Xanthe took her by both hands and held her so hard Miranda felt her nails cut into the palms and her eyes met hers with a pale blue flare , as clear as her father 's , and as unassailable , as she breathed out , holding Miranda by her side , and turned to face her father across the room . |
| 9 | ‘ It was to have children that Allah put her on this earth . |
| 10 | ’ Rick Astley introduced me to these giant goldfish and I 've become totally hooked . |
| 11 | Tom grinned an enormous grin across the table and said , ‘ You 're cheating , because a ) what are your natural circumstances if it 's not the very existence of coal , b ) I do n't believe Engels said it at all and , c ) even if he did , that does n't make it true because he was working with an outmoded scientific model . |
| 12 | Margaret Irwin cited it as another process from which women were excluded for what seemed to her good reason : " It requires both muscular strength and a certain " knack " . |
| 13 | And he said , oh yes , he said , Roger told me about that , he said , I did n't even know we were getting that . |
| 14 | It was just that i it was almost in passing he said , well yeah Roger told me about that . |
| 15 | Sarah affected him with such unexpected desire he could n't understand himself . |
| 16 | Most of the places he saw were uninhabitable , or required a permit from the Office of Works to make them less so , but a friend of John Hayward told him of some rooms in Carlyle Mansions , a Victorian apartment building along the Chelsea Embankment which looks out over the Thames . |
| 17 | There had been conflicting stories as to whether Anthony had been intended , Wells having gone on record as saying he had been conceived in a moment of carelessness , professor Gordon Ray , who edited the West-Wells correspondence , as saying it was a deliberate attempt by Wells to keep Rebecca with him , and Rebecca herself as saying , ‘ Wells cheated me of all but one child . ’ |
| 18 | Sweden more than doubled its crop area between 1840 and 1880 , Italy and Denmark expanded it by more than half , Russia , Germany and Hungary by about a third . |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't know Albie involved you in this . ’ |
| 20 | ( President Assad told him on that occasion that Saddam Hussein was like a chain-smoker : ‘ He can not help lighting another one before he has finished the first . |
| 21 | I remember , one bloke , mind-reader he was — Steenie booked him for some Variety bill , forget where it was now . |
| 22 | His lips twisted in scorn , and Lissa hated him for that look . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 24 | Wickham quashed it with some hard questions . |
| 25 | I think Simon blamed her for this . ’ |
| 26 | Giles Aplin examined it with some interest before consigning it to a buttoned pocket without comment . |
| 27 | It would not be whimsical to suggest that I still go to Arsenal now because of what Swindon did to me then : like a gambler who keeps playing because it is the only way to win back what he has lost , I still feel , somewhere in me , that I am owed for what Ian Ure and Jon Sammels and Bobby Gould put me through that afternoon . |
| 28 | These did not fruit well at Chelsea but by now the tomato , also known as the love-apple , had become well known in England ( it had been introduced in the sixteenth century , when Gerard considered it of little value ) and was much used in soups . |
| 29 | ‘ He is that kind of Dharjee , ’ the head had said , when Robert asked him about this . |
| 30 | An insurance cover note also said it was a 1.6 and Jackson sold it as such to Robert Ross , of Bridgegate , Barnard Castle , for £3,695 . |