Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For his part he noticed , not the dress but the slender-waisted , full-breasted figure it adorned ; the pretty face and the abundant dark hair which the bonnet framed ; the large amber eyes which met his as he helped her in . |
| 2 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 3 | When I was working in London , we often got clients who blamed us if their pets died . |
| 4 | But now he realised the woman was in control as she held his risen monster in her exquisite mouth , and in spite of the urgent movement of his thighs she devoured him as she pleased : sometimes allowing him into the back of her deep throat ; sometimes sipping at the helmet of his quivering phallus . |
| 5 | Some features of that world are nowadays entirely inscrutable — notably , what it was in Frederic Lowndes 's self-effacing position on The Times which gave him and his wife access to a society of international aristocracy and even royalty , and to the inner circles of the cabinet , as well as the society of novelists and playwrights . |
| 6 | Eventually he found in the Scriptures , which he scanned daily , texts which satisfied him that he might be saved . |
| 7 | He was used to working with crews who knew him and who , like his casts , were prepared to work round the clock to achieve the effects he desired . |
| 8 | Jacob was no longer a trickster in the Joseph story , but himself the victim of the duplicity of his sons who convinced him that his favourite Joseph was dead . |
| 9 | He also consulted constitutional experts who assured him that it was in the Prime Minister 's hands to do as he chose . |
| 10 | when he 's down he ca n't move , I said yes he can , she said he ca n't , and three times she told them and it were n't until the third day , they apologise , they said I 'm awfully sorry we did n't realise just how |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll thank you to remember when you ever ate bad food , in all the years I reared you and there were no refrigerators . ’ |
| 12 | For years I convinced myself that I hated eating , and loved the dance lessons . |
| 13 | Now , seeing Mary 's shapelessness goblin-like straddling her thick hips he wanted her and his child out of there , as though they were vulnerable to these most bizarre manifestations of the random and the destructive . |
| 14 | As he explains in the ‘ Epistle to the Reader ’ , he began it after a discussion in which it occurred to him and his friends that they might get further with the problems which concerned them if they were first to ‘ examine our own abilities , and see , what objects our understandings were , or were not fitted to deal with ’ . |
| 15 | Descartes , indeed , was with the armies of Maximilian of Bavaria in 1619 at the very beginning of the Thirty Years War when , at Neuberg on the Danube , he had that sequence of dreams which convinced him that his mission was to seek out truth by means of reason . |
| 16 | Among the benefits to be abolished was the Death Grant , to be replaced by a system which gave full help to families who needed it and none to those who did not . |
| 17 | So many and so extraordinary were the stories she told me that our trip around his tiny château lasted for more than an hour and a half , with not a boring moment . |
| 18 | Ershad met with senior Army officers who informed him that they were unwilling to step in and take control of the country . |
| 19 | But this ruse failed , for the education journalists were not interested in the nice distinctions I offered them when they interviewed me on the phone . |
| 20 | I 'll get the bastards who did it and it 'll be one of the Costers . |
| 21 | The ideal of the initiate is to become a ‘ star ’ or one with the Gods ; to achieve union with the natural forces which created him or her . |
| 22 | The rich harvest of insects and frogs , fruit and small rodents which supported them and their nestlings , is coming to an end . |
| 23 | PAT Clinton hit back at the critics who jeered him after he retained his WBO flyweight title in Glasgow on Saturday . |
| 24 | She had several artist friends who invited her and it was easy enough to crash into other ones if you knew when and where . |
| 25 | I ca n't imagine how I would have survived without good friends who sustained me when I turned up weeping in the middle of the night . |
| 26 | ‘ Gary was one of a number of players who impressed me and I 'm delighted to have got him , ’ said Linfield manager , Trevor Anderson . |
| 27 | Was she really prepared to accept all this humiliation for the sake of however many weekends he spared her before he tired of her ? |
| 28 | James waved a hand that strove to be nonchalant , encompassing the various paintings and sculptures which surrounded him and which , as it happened , featured an extraordinary number of nubile and semi-naked ladies in a recumbent posture . |
| 29 | I ca n't remember the wages they paid us but we could n't get work in the shops anyway . |
| 30 | We saw , we saw one or two others that were involved , that were involved in it , and er I were talking to the , one of the young producers that were there and er and I said if you 're short of some ac actors I said me and my mate will be actors you know , oh she said you 're dressed just right I 'll tell ya |