Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [art] [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a modest attempt to amend the damage accumulated over centuries by this pernicious little fiction , I asked the children to give me the Other Version , particularly Eve 's , but Adam 's or God 's as well if they preferred . |
| 2 | No I got the cakes Does it look alright Paul ? |
| 3 | As an 11-handicapper who does not play quite as often as she would like , I found the clubs gave me more consistency and greater ‘ feel ’ . |
| 4 | I told the servants to keep it a secret . ’ |
| 5 | Correction : mostly I watched the women watching it . |
| 6 | Well I mean he was stealing and then , what about that time when I rang the police to say he 's nicking apples out |
| 7 | ‘ I thought the carrots suited you , ’ he said mildly . |
| 8 | I had the balls to do it because I did n't know any better . |
| 9 | For 12 years from 1962 he successfully fed Edgar Hoover at the FBI a mixture of tantalising bits of fact and rubbish , including false information about Russia 's space-rocket programme which led the Americans to think they were ahead of the Russians . |
| 10 | The supreme quality of marine pearls which caused the Romans to give them priority among all other materials for jewellery is their lustre or ‘ orient ’ , counterpart of the ‘ fire ’ of diamonds . |
| 11 | The next day Ershad and his wife were formally arrested under the Special Powers Act , which allowed the authorities to detain them without charge for up to 120 days . |
| 12 | There was no question of Lewis abandoning the Moores , but the body does not always believe the evidence of its senses ; and from this time onwards Minto ( as Lewis had begun to call Janie , after a variety of sweet to which she was devoted ) began to develop a series of psychosomatic conditions which strengthened the ties binding him to her side . |
| 13 | When you got the bottles did they have to be cleaned ? |
| 14 | She made no attempts to decorate it , to domesticate it , to possess it ; she let it be , and her things lay in it . |
| 15 | She asked the powers to make her into a Stone as well but this was not granted . |
| 16 | Making no mention of sex , she asked the children to tell her about anything that had happened to them at school which they thought was unfair . |
| 17 | How do you measure the contribution of organizations like Canadian University Service Overseas or the Methodist Church , who bent the rules to allow us to mail their supporters with our advertising literature ? . |
| 18 | She signalled the nomes to follow her . |
| 19 | She climbed the stairs to get it , crunched her way across the glass-strewn room , feeling a strong rush of her earlier panic , and unhooked the painting from the wall . |
| 20 | And without explaining that enigmatic remark further , she allowed the soldiers to lead her away . |
| 21 | Another who heard the bangs thought it was a cracker . |
| 22 | I think Jean said , well she watched the others do it . |
| 23 | Carmella was the only calm one , and picking her way through the shambles , she called the Police to sort it out ! |
| 24 | Rosa ignored her , she wanted to speak so much she felt the words swelling her up inside like leaven in dough , pushing it up out of the mould until it has doubled and doubled in size . |
| 25 | That is , they translate words back into the same modality of bodily experience from which those who spoke the words derived them from within their own bodies . |
| 26 | what a waste of money , sa sa this guy was saying who did , who did the kitchens said he said all the actual boxes are identical |
| 27 | PWL 's managing director David Howells entered the debate on Kylie 's future by insisting she had the qualities to see her endure in the same way pop 's Peter Pan Cliff Richard had . |
| 28 | You see a woman see a woman and your man did n't know where he was , and then she walked out one night and put her hand through the window and she ripped it from there to there and she said the doctors told her the only thing that stopped her the arm from coming off was the bone . |
| 29 | Then other people could n't get enough again you see , so if they were giving you er points well naturally you had the sweets to give them , you 're not diddling anybody or anything like that . |
| 30 | Klein , who denied the reports linking him to Colombian drug dealers , was committed for trial on June 1 , 1990 , charged with illegally exporting Israeli military expertise . |