Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [conj] [vb past] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that . |
| 2 | ‘ I did my teacher 's bit and told her to stay on until she got her leaving certificate . |
| 3 | He flicked through Jack 's chart and snapped it shut abruptly . |
| 4 | Any astrologer worth her salt would have predicted this man 's presence and told her to steer clear . |
| 5 | A strong breeze ruffled Crossley 's hair and made him shiver . |
| 6 | Charles told her about his movements on the Sunday night , concluding , ‘ … so it must have been the arrival of Nigel 's car that made me run out of the place . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I have contacted Bruno 's lawyer and told him to tell Frank that if he wants to fight Lennox he should get in contact with us directly as I understand that Duff 's promotional contract expires in April . |
| 8 | The Maggot now ordered me into the right-hand pilot 's seat and told me to keep my thieving hands off his knobs . |
| 9 | The workhouse master was called to Connolly 's cell and found him lying on the floor . |
| 10 | Anyway , at last I got absolutely blind drunk through depression , went upstairs to Freda 's bedroom and cried myself to sleep . |
| 11 | One day in 1915 he arrived in Berthe Weill 's gallery and begged her to come and look at his stone heads . |
| 12 | This not only gave the masters an extra hour 's work but saved them having to pay the breakfast allowance of 1½d ( 0.6p ) . |
| 13 | He did it in style , preparing the ground by a speech to the Legislative Assembly in which he paid tribute to Gandhi 's sincerity and asked him to recognize his own . |
| 14 | I guess I ought to be more honest about this because my daughter wrote me after her mother 's funeral and said she 'd guessed what had happened anyway . |
| 15 | These goblins hated the old man and the boys , because they tended the sacred fire at the sun 's shrine and kept it burning even at night , so that there was always a light in the forest . |
| 16 | Richard Lee , who trains Market Leader , expressed himself happy with Greene 's riding and said he felt Market Leader was a moderate animal . |
| 17 | I caught Werewolf 's eye and knew it had to be me who had to ask . |
| 18 | Mundell , 22 , and Lieutenant Andrew Hadley , 24 , then stormed into Lt Richard Brearey 's room and asked him to get up and watch the results . |
| 19 | Later that evening , when the Labrador had been handed over to its rejoicing owners , Sophie went into Joanna 's room and found her looking pensive . |
| 20 | Nor is it any more than the incidental music to a play that captured the composer 's imagination and inspired him to conjure up the ‘ goings on in the Magicked Athenian wood ’ . |
| 21 | Penelope turned away from the little scene , to avoid the inevitable explanations and interpretations of Faustina 's behaviour and found herself facing Rupert Stonebird . |
| 22 | It was Mr Banzer 's wrath that made him go into exile in Argentina . |
| 23 | He lifted the great brass knocker , cast in the shape of a dragon 's head and brought it crashing down . |
| 24 | He looked at the back of Alexei 's head and willed him to turn round . |
| 25 | He is no respecter of titles : when the Daily Express queried his ability , he sent a lemon to Lord Stevens , the paper 's proprietor and invited him to suck on it . |
| 26 | When the King withdrew , Jeffreys , the Lord Chancellor , told the bishops that they would be prosecuted in the King 's Bench and asked them to enter into recognisances to appear in court . |
| 27 | Some moment when she , as a child , was on the verge of doing something wrong , and he could have fulfilled a father 's role and made her do it . |
| 28 | However , she took Tom 's advice and busied herself preparing for Anna 's wedding day . |
| 29 | The leading moderate Muslim , Dr Hesham El-Essawy , chairman of the Islamic Society for the Promotion of Religious Tolerance , welcomed the organisation 's launch and said it reflected the feelings of most British Muslims . |
| 30 | Characteristically it was Smith 's perfectionism that made him delay publishing the full proofs until he had found a way of checking his answers . |