Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From eleven in the morning until four in the afternoon nothing stirred . |
| 2 | In this Karajan proved the catalyst everyone had been waiting for . |
| 3 | There was also Alec , a prison officer from Wormwood Scrubs ( when he 'd given his address and next of kin on a previous camp everyone had thought he was kidding ) ; Ken , who to everyone 's delight turned up with a guitar ( were we really going to sit round a campfire singing ? ) ; and David , an aircraft engineer who after fifteen years in the Scouts could ‘ do wonderful things with ropes ’ . |
| 4 | There was a new Secondary there , a fine building everyone said , with playing fields and a pool and modern laboratories but it sounded , to Carrie , very ordinary and dull . |
| 5 | When Matron came in that afternoon everyone stood up and shouted ‘ Hooray ’ . |
| 6 | Off the pair of us dashed and so were our hopes as of course nothing had been left uncollected . |
| 7 | Of course nothing happened . |
| 8 | This strategy enabled the various members of the family to see the difficulty of the younger daughter 's task , and the part everyone played in making it worse . |
| 9 | She said , ‘ In case nothing came of it , I could cut him off . ’ |
| 10 | The new experience everyone enjoyed was eating bananas and it was a great disappointment when the supply stopped short at the beginning of the war . |
| 11 | And of course everyone knew all about it , just as they knew that the Mackays , poor souls , had done everything they could for the boy ever since they took him in for adoption . ’ |
| 12 | So that , when she went to the headmistress with what I was supposed to have done to her as we were changing after a singles tennis game , of course everyone believed her . |
| 13 | Of course everyone curtsied too . |
| 14 | Of course everyone threw up their hands and said it was impossible . |
| 15 | When they grew up and went off into the wild I suffered dreadful pangs . |
| 16 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 17 | Turning back to the clerk I said , ‘ It 's my sister . |
| 18 | In my days as a Justice 's Clerk I saw enough corpses to know that death can grossly disfigure even the comeliest of faces . ’ |
| 19 | Before they gave me a bike I had to earn it , I had to work in the garden . |
| 20 | When I did get to the bike I saw it was virtually in pieces and realised that Darren had been attempting the job himself . |
| 21 | And I knew exactly the bike I wanted . |
| 22 | By the time I had replaced the telephone in its cradle I had realized in a sudden , terrifying swoop of misery that I was in genuine danger . |
| 23 | I am also grateful to the Friends of St Cecilia 's Hall and the Russell Collection for a grant I received from the J. J. K. Rhodes Bursary Fund towards the research for this paper . |
| 24 | The other interesting runner I rode was Auntie Dot , particularly as she has the advantage of being schooled over a National-type fence on her trainer John Webber 's gallops . |
| 25 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity , and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I knew it was sight at first love . |
| 26 | The counsel I used was an exceptionally suitable person , Sir Joseph Molony QC , the son of a Northern Ireland judge . |
| 27 | PS I told Nero you 'd meet him at Dover but I should leave your chariot behind he might not understand if you cut him in two , he 's funny that way . |
| 28 | PS I forgot . |
| 29 | HSMorris Bristol PS I did find the article amusing and am no less a woman because I did . |
| 30 | I realised writing How Far Can You Go ? how little of the conceptual faith I had grown up with I still retained … ’ |