Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was always meant to lose her , ’ she had sobbed to Arthur , who tried to comfort her with cups of tea and brief , common-sense reassurances . |
| 2 | In addition , garage C was subject to a mortgage whereby the appellants advanced , under a loan agreement , £7,000 to the respondents who covenanted to repay it by instalments over a period of 21 years . |
| 3 | A drink was thrust into her hand and within five minutes she was being passed from group to group as though she were the prize exhibit ; asked numerous questions she did n't know how to or have time to answer ; told endless tales of this person or that person ; until eventually , somewhat bewildered , she ended up in the bar with someone called Patrick who began regaling her with tales of old Ireland . |
| 4 | She told us stories about her childhood in Clophill ( I think ) but she never told us anything unpleasant , whereas I remember one good lady who loved to horrify us with tales of ghastly happenings ! |
| 5 | This is nowhere better exemplified than in the treatment that some consultants in the NHS offered those who had to visit them as out-patients . |
| 6 | A betrayal which had secured their dismissal from Mr Ben Braithwaite himself who had branded them as troublemakers with no hope of employment anywhere in Frizingley again . |
| 7 | Most land fell to the peasants who had tilled it for decades and the landlords or rentiers who held large amounts of land , renting it out or tilling it by hired labour . |
| 8 | The girl who had interviewed him for Leaders of Mankind . |
| 9 | Er it had been bought previous to that in nineteen eighty five by a local businessman who wanted to turn it into offices , but when he got his architect in , Russell Wright who 's his architect . |