Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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31 | He noticed she needed two hands to lift the silver pot . |
32 | It seemed we needed thirty copies of everything , stamped and signed at least twice . |
33 | Before they came we removed all trace of our connection to television , rearranged the office furniture a bit , and hid a camera in a bankers box . |
34 | Secretary of State Sir Patrick Mayhew said the RUC still had his full support and he believed they pursued all killers with equal determination . |
35 | Pc Kelly told the jury he questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
36 | He told the jury that he had questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
37 | She wrinkled her freckled teenage nose . |
38 | Looking into her churning heart as she stood there that night , she knew she felt an affection for the man opposite and believed he had some affection for her . |
39 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
40 | He touched her face very tenderly and believed he felt warm flesh . |
41 | Maud said that Leonora Stern believed it represented Victorian women 's fear , or any woman 's fear , of giving birth to a monstrosity . |
42 | THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , hinted yesterday that the US withheld military support for Tuesday 's failed coup in Panama because it believed it had little chance of success . |
43 | It seemed he heard that question again , a thousand years ago and in another world . |
44 | But frankly , if I thought about that at all , I imagined he had some side line , painting people 's houses perhaps or cleaning windows . ’ |
45 | While they ate he made polite conversation , avoiding with care any of the deeper , more important issues that needed to be talked about and resolved . |
46 | Left to her own devices , Lucy wondered what she should do next , then realised she had little option but to wait until she ran into Silas . |
47 | But when the prince reminded her — oh , so gently — of the deception practised upon his royal parents on Twelfth Night , Anne realized she had little choice . |
48 | Well you got you got three months from the date of termination which you can take as effect from the twenty second of June to make a claim to the industrial tribunal . |
49 | If you worked four , you were worse off than if you worked three , you know , you 'd got three days on th er and you got you got three days dole , er unemployment pay . |
50 | I tell you what I noticed when you first walked in you got you got thick eyeliner on , that 's what I noticed . |
51 | A PATIENT who claimed she suffered severe brain damage from an allergic reaction to anaesthetic drugs was awarded interim damages of £50,000 yesterday . |
52 | He claimed she had salted money away in Brazil , where she fled briefly before returning to be arrested , using Liberian companies and bank accounts in Monaco and Luxemburg . |
53 | Mr Goldring claimed she gave 15-year-old Jonathan Jobson his diabetic grandmother 's hypoglycaemic tablets . |
54 | When this happened she had one option ; there was only one other perch available : my fist . |
55 | A post mortem showed she had 55 injuries , including broken ribs and bruises to head , neck and body . |
56 | These have been included in the FRED because respondents stated they found similar material in the discussion paper helpful . |
57 | A study of vegetables from Warsaw 's Ochota district showed they contained 16 mg of lead per kg — eight times higher than the maximum safety level permitted by the World Health Organization . |
58 | When we arrived they kissed each other good night and Albert kissed me on the cheek before he turned and walked off . |
59 | When police arrived they found two Englishmen who seemed to be shocked victims of an armed hold-up , said James Curtis , prosecuting . |
60 | But Macoun was there during an unusually wet season , and when the first white settlers arrived they faced immense hardship until they developed techniques for coping with this semi-arid environment . |