Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wexford brought his beer and as he passed them the man got up as if to take his leave . |
| 2 | When it found him the mouth opened in a roar of triumph , lips pulling apart behind the vizor to reveal huge yellow teeth . |
| 3 | From the moment he entered it the wood seemed full of noises . |
| 4 | I found it a bit stilted , but Ted thought it warm . |
| 5 | Any Romanian had learnt instinctively to expect the opposite of what the Party assured them the future had to offer . |
| 6 | She told me a policewoman had been round and announced that Graham Mills had been found murdered . |
| 7 | A nurse told me a policeman wanted to see me , but visitors had been barred until tomorrow . |
| 8 | Agatha phoned the next day and said : ‘ You never told me the Queen had been . ’ |
| 9 | This morning , as I cooked Crowe breakfast , he told me the story had ‘ national ’ written all over it . |
| 10 | Robson said yesterday : ‘ Bobby told me the atmosphere got to certain players last time . |
| 11 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ When they told me the body had been mutilated and burnt I did n't think it was Brian . |
| 13 | ‘ Poniatowski told me the Party decided that silence was best . |
| 14 | When I assured her no harm had been done , she said : |
| 15 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
| 16 | He fired again , and felt the lesser kick which told him the ball had only lodged half-way down the barrel . |
| 17 | The court heard evidence from a Nicholas Moody who said the next day Mrs Handy told him the machine had stopped working . |
| 18 | Residents then told him the sergeant had been seriously wounded , and they took custody of the suspect so the constable could help his colleague . |
| 19 | I told him the letter had been posted on to you and it was merely a matter of time before you got it . ’ |
| 20 | She felt the sudden weight on her legs which told her the cat had leapt up again . |
| 21 | ‘ But the driver told her the cost had risen by 1p the previous day . |
| 22 | Sheriff Paterson told her the charity had been devastated as a result of her actions . |
| 23 | That afternoon in free time the sergeant stopped her , and told her the work had n't been done properly . |
| 24 | She reached for her pen and dipped it into the well so fiercely that when she lifted it a blot fell across the page . |
| 25 | The champagne corks popped but then the reporter told us the house had been repossessed . |
| 26 | Because the sons of the primal father both loved and hated him the possibility arose that those of them who by luck or design chanced on their actual fathers in their hunt for women and killed him or drove him off ( most probably the former , the latter seems insufficiently traumatic ) would have gratified one side of their ambivalent feelings , but would by the same action have frustrated the other . |
| 27 | With a tenderness that surprised her the Frenchman put his arms around her and lifted her onto the cot beside him . |
| 28 | The working class was hardly more impressed by the Manifesto and in the weeks that followed it the government faced an unprecedented challenge to its authority , centred on St Petersburg and Moscow . |
| 29 | The person who called me a positivist went on to add that everyone knew that positivism was out of date — another case of refutation by denigration . |
| 30 | I sold him the car did n't I ? |