Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know if I did it for Dad or Dad did it for me . |
| 2 | Never before in his seventy-nine years had sovereign or consort accused him of enmity . |
| 3 | Remember when Dad found that puffball up there and Mum did it with bacon — ? ’ |
| 4 | She confessed that the bitter jibes and over-exposure led her to the precipice . |
| 5 | The king 's mother and sister took her to their hut and they prepared the finest clothes for her . |
| 6 | Shocked is making plans to sail with her father , who long ago began building a boat , until marriage and fatherhood distracted him from finishing it . |
| 7 | Our questions ranged far and wide and his courtesy and patience turned them into an intriguing trail of discovery which was endlessly fascinating and richly rewarding , for he is also a natural raconteur . |
| 8 | Both chamberlain and clerk accepted it without question when they were dismissed from attendance . |
| 9 | We acted , sang , danced — hoping always for temperate weather , dreading the sudden heat waves which lost us audiences as surely as rain and snow kept them at home — burlesques with preposterous titles ( Very Little Hamlet , The Vicar of Wideawakefield ) , comedies , farces . |
| 10 | In the sixty fourth minute , Pedro Herbert restored the home side 's lead when he picked up the ball on the break and side footed it past keeper Cummings , to make it two one to Harefield . |
| 11 | This was confirmed on computed tomography and biopsy showed it to be a well differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma . |
| 12 | This was completed by 10th November , and Hall sent it to Palmerston on the following day . |
| 13 | The King and Queen loaded him with wealth and honours but Columbus wanted even more . |
| 14 | Ant : You do n't like school discos " cos your mum turned up at the last one at nine o'clock to take you home , and Fungus announced it over the mike . |
| 15 | Milton 's maintenance of the traditional Renaissance literary values of art , imitation , and exercise allowed him to be appropriated by a culturally elitist agenda indivisibly caught up with an elitist social and political agenda . |
| 16 | She often used to say she could n't believe how some people behaved , and the promiscuity and drinking shook her to the core . |
| 17 | Screens of holly and ivy sheltered her from the deepening winter , but now the forest became a black and frozen place . |
| 18 | Lam 's biography seems tailor-made for todays ' infatuation with multiculturalism : he was born in Cuba to a Chinese father and a Creole mother , he was a Roman Catholic fascinated by Santeria ( Cuban animism ) , his studies and work took him to France , Spain , the United States and the Caribbean , and each of his three wives came from a different European country . |
| 19 | Tests on the items at the Oxford research laboratory for art and archaeology revealed them to be modern . |
| 20 | The full-back appeared in Aberdeen 's penalty area and determination carried him into a spot where he could see the right-hand corner of Snelders 's goal , sending the ball there with all the assurance that had characterised Clydebank 's return from the brink . |
| 21 | Her hard work and determination set her in good stead for the confrontation she had had with the Johnson representative , Albert Buller . |
| 22 | A PENSIONER has told how positive thinking and determination pulled him through two strokes . |
| 23 | But typical Mansell courage and skill took him past his arch rival … and with Patrasse in the pits it was left to Mansell to claim victory … only just though on a set of well worn and blistered tyres . |
| 24 | A coal fell out of the fire , making them both start , and Breeze replaced it with the exaggerated care with which we perform these trivial tasks , when our thoughts are far away . |
| 25 | Weakness kept him confined to his room most of the time and an overwhelming sense of guilt , remorse and failure prevented him from doing anything about writing to Liza . |
| 26 | French and Ukrainian , mathematics and chemistry bored him to the point of insanity ; only in music and English could he hope to get decent marks . |
| 27 | She swayed and Roman caught her to him , exclaiming in dismay . |
| 28 | ‘ As I was saying , I went round and Daddy took me to a French restaurant he knew . ’ |
| 29 | I remember when I lost a fountain-pen Mummy and Daddy gave me for Christmas : I prayed and prayed , and I never found it . ’ |
| 30 | An authoritative denial of the Donaldson item came in and Rain passed it to Holly who regretted believing the man or the MacQuillans who had pushed her into writing it . |