Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , indeed , this freak of fortune was felt to be all the more cruel on account of the impossibility of resenting it openly ; but the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel ; he had wanted a grandson and he had got a grandson ; this should be enough for everybody … |
| 2 | But in one instance , he makes the text longer : this is where he replaces " this was nothing to the delighted grandfather " by " the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel " . |
| 3 | Mr Jones mentioned them to me the other morning . |
| 4 | Here for the first time he found something of what the pilgrim on his bicycle had sought : ‘ the sense of mystery , and awe , and of another world at once far and near … a sense that we were vividly in the presence of the passion of Jesus and also vividly near to heaven , to which the passion mysteriously belonged , so as to be brought from the past to the present ’ . |
| 5 | Tried him with anything the other day when he were like this . |
| 6 | On the ground he was safe from an hussar 's blade , so Karelius concerned himself with him no more , but urged his mare on down the footpath to join the advance guard in the main street . |
| 7 | ‘ No , sir , but Selden told me about him a week or more ago . |
| 8 | It 's only cos I fucking told him about it the other night . |
| 9 | Men , women , and all except the smallest children , were on their hands and knees , busily washing every inch of the deck , supervised by the third mate and half a dozen rough-looking sailors , who kept them at it every second . |
| 10 | I took it from him the next day . ’ |
| 11 | It was the first time she had been able to grant his wish and take him to visit Santa Claus in a large department store , and that made it for her the happiest Christmas she could remember . |
| 12 | They gave everyone around them a more unpleasant outlook on life . |
| 13 | Once , a dog squealed and went on squealing in pain , and a flying plank , grazing her shoulder , reminded her of what a high wind could do . |
| 14 | They reminded him of what the city was really about , more so than the near deserted streets below , dominated by monuments and government buildings that themselves became monuments after dark . |
| 15 | Adam gave it to me the other day so that I could lock up . |
| 16 | you could median split them at whatever the medium was and then you 've got two groups to compare erm because it usually looks quite nice if you 've got something comparative as well as looking at the average sort of , you know , pattern of responses on the questionnaire . |
| 17 | Yeah actually that 's that 's a good point because I 'm , I had something from you the other day your erm , you know the magazine that you sent |
| 18 | I had felt at the instant the idea suggested itself to me the first glimmer of positive thought : suddenly I knew I was not going to sink . |