Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have an interesting story to tell , whether you 've built your own house or dug your own pool , write to the Editor at the address on the opposite page , and if we publish it , you could get a cash reward ! |
| 2 | The lad 's prize was a silver shilling , the maids got a shilling and a kiss , and Mrs. Jarrett — well , for one terrified minute she thought she was due a kiss , too , but instead she had a stately one-round waltz on the meadow with the master , while everyone else laughed 206 or cheered or sang their own idea of a waltz tune . |
| 3 | Indeed , many blacks were skinheads or formed their own crews , such as the Kilburn Blacks and the Kilburn Whites . |
| 4 | At school the ideal of womanhood was based on the assumptions of a different social class : woman 's life was service , the dispensation of charity , whether she was married and dependent , or earned her own living . |
| 5 | She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep . |
| 6 | There is none of that apparently aimless wandering in short stretches , punctuated by frequent bends , going halfway round the compass to reach the next hamlet or village , which characterises the byroads in country that has never been in open field or left it several centuries ago . |
| 7 | She began to tremble , but although he must surely have known that she was not enjoying what he was doing , he said and did nothing to reassure her , nor gave her any sign of love or affection . |
| 8 | Answer guide : The point here is that at the date of the balance sheet the business did not own the asset nor had it any right to its use as all that had happened at that date was an order had been placed which could easily be cancelled . |
| 9 | He played with Louis Armstrong 's All Stars at the end of the 50s and led his own band at Eddie Condon 's in New York in the mid-60s . |
| 10 | He had forgotten this unofficial war and damned his own foolhardiness at not taking the matter into account . |
| 11 | He wanted footballers to have a respectable place in society , breaking away from their traditional cloth-cap image , and expected his own players to adopt respectable standards of dress and behaviour . |
| 12 | Then Greta Ross took my mother into a room and asked her more questions . |
| 13 | One of them was Edward Pease , who invited Durham to his home and asked him many questions . |
| 14 | She kept , it was said , her own household and ruled her own fiefs , and although her name had never been linked with any man Alexei knew of , marriage to her was not a prospect which he thought he would be able to face with equanimity . |
| 15 | But some of the branches apparently just like pinned it up , been quite happy to pin up the returned fax and then each consultant just gone and read his own bit . |
| 16 | Then she drew him up to her , and lowered her own head to take him in her mouth , her tongue darting out in tender forays at the base of his penis , stroking his belly with her hair as her teeth gently nibbled his manhood . |
| 17 | Later that year the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Magazine quoted these results in full and announced its own competition : |
| 18 | He advertised his own brand of cigarettes and sold his own brand of whisky . |
| 19 | He had wrapped her in a blanket off her bed and made her more coffee . |
| 20 | Similar outspoken attacks on Tory rebels over charges for eye and dental checks once boosted a revolt — and made him more enemies . |
| 21 | She designed and made her own clothes , sometimes colouring the fabric with home-made dyes ; this gave the articles a most individual style and character . |
| 22 | She felt ashamed that she had left him and made her own escape . |
| 23 | She made her own chutney , and made her own pickles , even though she was at work . |
| 24 | In the end he got up and made himself some coffee , then watched the early morning skies above Manhattan as he recalled the past . |
| 25 | He crept back into the kitchen and made himself another cup of tea . |
| 26 | As Simon Halliday is a fine footballer and made his own contribution with a try you can say that it was almost a perfect backline . |
| 27 | Corbett closed his eyes and made his own prayer , sending it up into the void . |
| 28 | In 1948 he moved to the ancient house of Daneway , near Sapperton , where he ground his own flour , baked his own bread and made his own paper on which to print his poems on his own press . |
| 29 | A year before his father avowed his change in faith , Cecil had journeyed to Rome and made his own profession of Catholicism . |
| 30 | Much to my surprise she agreed , on condition that we had separate rooms and made our own travel arrangements . |