Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the music stopped they looked at each other for a long moment , then reluctantly drew apart . |
| 2 | The two men found they agreed on many points about today 's press . |
| 3 | A great cultural movement like the twelfth-century Renaissance can not be explained in simple terms : the influences and the inspiration which created it flowed through many channels , some of them deep beneath the ground . |
| 4 | His last owner found he suffered from many anxiety-induced health problems including cribbing , psychosomatic skin conditions , and chronic colic ; and also behavioural problems including tongue over the bit , reluctance to eat , fear of being in a large yard or paddock , inability to walk , trot , or canter properly , and sheer terror if he thought he had done something wrong ! |
| 5 | And when she woke she turned with such longing to where he had lain and called his name and thought she would do anything for him , anything at all he wanted , because she loved him , she loved him , she loved him . |
| 6 | I assumed she subscribed to that of her kin . |
| 7 | Of course they 're all putting their hands up by me see , and Da , I thought David would clock , and he never said a word , I thought he ai n't sussed it , anyway they went on this night out and the girls kept saying , Debbie saying oh Lynn just come , I said I ai n't got no intentions of coming , I said David 's going amongst all the others I 'm not going , so Debbie said why , I said why because David is nothing but a wanker , a lot , along , a lot of the others , she said , she nearly fell off the chair , gordon bennett she said I never thought you , I never realised you felt like that , I said Debbie if you knew half of what I thought you would fall off that chair |
| 8 | ‘ I never realised you felt like this , Edward , ’ said Mrs Fitton petulantly . |
| 9 | As her father had so often complained , to engage with this task was to enter a labyrinth , and it seemed that whichever way she turned she came to this impasse . |
| 10 | In the silence that followed I reached for another scone . |
| 11 | When we first drank claret we heard it called by that name , we were eating such and such a dinner etc . |
| 12 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 13 | Ben spent so much time playing computer games , barely pausing to eat , that lately I 'd sometimes wondered if he knew I existed at all . |
| 14 | I thought I 'd post some information about the match last night , mainly for our overseas friends . |
| 15 | I thought I detected from that last speech Chairman that er Liberal Democrat group must help the enitre united in terms of what it . |
| 16 | After her mother died she went on many trips abroad with him . |
| 17 | However thirty-six hours before she died she telephoned for some of us to visit ; she knew we had all been worried and concerned but she had it all under control . |
| 18 | She was a fine person and he knew they related to each other , shared the same sense of humour . |
| 19 | A few years before he died he posed for this effigy , placing the completed picture in his room , adjacent to his bed , as a memento mori . |
| 20 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 21 | Sometimes , if they knew he behaved in that way , people would be unwilling to talk about him at all — for fear they would embarrass themselves by saying something sympathetic about a man they knew could just as easily assassinate their characters . |
| 22 | I had heard it in the evenings at the school , and at first thought it made by some moronic village boy . |
| 23 | I did n't much like them , but I realized he played with some mastery . |
| 24 | Well what we did we stopped at this track and we turned round and we went to there was like a twenty foot straight yeah , and there 's like and everybody 's sort of like going , no , not that . |
| 25 | He was rarely the first to suggest what should be done ; when the others spoke he listened with half an ear , made up his mind what course to follow and followed it without hesitation as though no other were possible . |
| 26 | I fought for them two , to get that home for her , so I said no , the only way you 'll do it , and I , when she were on her own , I said , not that I do n't trust Nigel , I do , but you do n't know what 's gon na happen in ten , in ten years time , I said I fought for that house for you , if you exchange it , you exchange it in your name |
| 27 | As I said I stayed with that man all day . |
| 28 | Hard pushed , well she said she went through all the books on the Council , and there was n't one in the South |
| 29 | Anyway , and it was all such a , a resounding success so I , I was regaled with all the details of what she , and in what she had indulged and er , she said she went in more for the pi er she did n't go in for erm aromatherapy and the reflexology and the facials and the manicures and things , she went in for loads of bicycling and exercising and er and steam baths and things . |
| 30 | And one of the sisters she said she started for this company did n't she . |