Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] the [noun] [vb past] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to me that the Quirkes gloried in the poetry of paganism , but were not true pagans , eager to propitiate feared gods with flame and sacrifice . |
| 2 | More er and more in a month some of them than the others did in a year . |
| 3 | It is not quite the status of an accredited representative , but at least the door will not be shut in the face of any State which finds itself in the position that we and the Germans did in the early 1970s . |
| 4 | She sat on the ground and ate them while the maids watched in the fading light . |
| 5 | I remind him that the applicant arrived in the United Kingdom on 23 September 1990 on a flight from Lagos , Nigeria , using a false passport , and claimed that he would be persecuted in Zaire — |
| 6 | All of them would live more happily if they and the world remained in ignorance , and to try to achieve that I would give them the one gift I could . |
| 7 | Its red hour-glass flashed up at him as the spider swirled in the motion of the water . |
| 8 | Charlotte did get the position of nanny and often travelled on the same train home on her days off , always in the first compartment behind the tender and always hoping that she would see Albert , which she often did and she leaned out of the window to talk to him when the train stopped in the stations . |
| 9 | It belonged to my grandfather , but he lost it when the Creditanstalt crashed in the twenties . |
| 10 | Cheshire police said that message was relayed to them as the bombs exploded in Warrington 's Bridge Street at about 12.25pm . |