Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular the fact that so many officials had bought their offices and thus made them their personal property ( see p. 126 ) made it very hard to dismiss them , since the government could seldom afford to refund the purchase price . |
| 2 | And er of course as I tell you , I finished when I was thirteen years old and I was on this er bottle washing stunt and o one chap as lived next door to us , back at er at Road he got me his this job on the farm . |
| 3 | I envied them their sexual freedom and their self-assured dignity , and I despised the British vice squads that ran them in and were not above enjoying their charms for a consideration . |
| 4 | At eighteen thousand pounds it cost them their combined life savings . |
| 5 | His wife , an Italian American girl , bore him his handicapped daughter Tiffany , now 25 , and his only child . |
| 6 | The Leeds striker 's world fell apart when a hamstring injury cost him his first-ever place in a senior England squad in Spain tomorrow . |
| 7 | Dickins , a £200,000 signing from Lincoln on transfer deadline day , owed his debut to the thigh injury to Bobby Mimms , which cost him his ever-present record . |
| 8 | Their hand-held satellite navigation systems told them their exact position to within 15 metres . |
| 9 | But she gave herself up to police and told them her real motive was to win attention for emotional problems . |
| 10 | Both Jessica and Nadea seemed to agree that it was fitting and appropriate when I told them my first choice would be to serve with the Royal Canadian Air Force . |
| 11 | ‘ Eleanor told me her late father was Principal of Brigston . |
| 12 | Told me your real feeling about … oh , about life and writing and things . ’ |
| 13 | No doubt if I had responded to Hilda and Annie and the rest as they told me I should respond , as they all told me my true nature , my deeper nature was crying out to respond , I would be surrounded today by love and wives and children and the rest . |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose he told you their bad news ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I told you my lucky number . ’ |
| 16 | She set up a bedside vigil , had special drugs imported from Germany , played him his favourite music and discouraged everyone else from visiting , including his own children . |
| 17 | I did n't know about God , but that was when I knew it was serious , when she told him her secret identity . |
| 18 | It was housed in the belvedere , a word that Ernest insisted meant ‘ bell tower ’ even after his sister Cecilia told him its correct meaning of ‘ beautiful view ’ or ‘ beautiful to see ’ . |
| 19 | They told him his usual fee of $150,000 was too high . |
| 20 | But the careers office told him his poor sight ruled him out , a Winchester inquest heard yesterday . |
| 21 | He summoned Chamberlain to see him again first thing the next morning and told him his new plan . |
| 22 | I could n't find out anything about him , not even where he lived , though I told him my entire address ( 17 Daffodil Cottages , Bourton-on-the-Water ) and my age ( nineteen ) and that my parents were in Saudi Arabia where my father was computerising oil production . |
| 23 | Leo had promised to ring me that evening in case there had been any news from the hospital ; and I told him my own news . |
| 24 | Who keeps on trying to raise money for you , got you your first grant ? |
| 25 | Parry , having got Llanelli off the mark , gifted them their final try five minutes later as Pontypool attacked near the opposition 's 10-metre line . |
| 26 | Mr Vulcan handed me his black-edged handkerchief . |
| 27 | Well , he showed them his real find , the Rivera murals , the white-clothed indigenos who were being liberated , the obese bosses with their cigars tumbling , the beautiful Mayan prostitute cheeking the bourgeois couple in Almeida Park . |
| 28 | She had a room to herself , and showed me her built-in dressing-table , wardrobe , and cupboards . |
| 29 | They showed me my new hip . |
| 30 | Friend of mine , I had a beer with in the week , showed me his new car , and he said the big irritation is it does n't centrally lock , having been used to it . |