Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made their glowing colours he made their tiny wings |
| 2 | She was taken to a small Gestapo prison near the Bastille , and thanked her lucky stars it was n't Gestapo HQ on the Avenue Foch . |
| 3 | Since she started her contemporary romances she has really leapt forward . |
| 4 | * Finally , another place for presuppositions to hide is in a clause which sets the scene in a sentence ; an example is the TEMPORAL CLAUSE , as in the following example : When Blake saw his first angels he was sitting in his garden . |
| 5 | But as Edward exhausted his foreign creditors he came to rely on his own nobles and the London merchants for loans , and this necessitated a greater sensitivity to the political views and interests of his creditors than his predecessors had had to show . |
| 6 | She could n't abide the thought of it , sitting there grinning , it gave her bad dreams she said , so she took it one morning and hid it in the stable loft . |
| 7 | ‘ If I had my own clubs I might , ’ Sir Bryan said gloomily . |
| 8 | Furthermore , as the French kings developed and extended their legal powers they increasingly intervened in the affairs of the duchy , and cases arising in the duchy might be taken on appeal to Paris , thus undermining the authority of the duke . |
| 9 | This time when they said their good byes they arranged to meet the following morning and so things continued . |
| 10 | Since the accused was charged with representing that the car had its original plates he was not guilty because that misrepresentation did not induce the victim to buy . |
| 11 | ‘ I feel that we have been working together for much longer , ’ says Sandra , ‘ because even when we had our own businesses we would ring each other up for advice . |
| 12 | As we sat and sipped our half-pint shandies I reflected on what a lucky choice of company I had made . |