Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeremy Vole met the two hedgehogs as they joined the crowd . |
| 2 | Before lunch Jones made the necessary arrangements and they both glanced at the Sunday newspapers , apparently for the first time . |
| 3 | Backbenchers mostly made the same points that they had made over a year earlier . |
| 4 | Larry and the other pocket knife owner became the prime suspects and it got quite ugly with such suggestions as , ‘ why do n't you admit it , you know you did it ’ . |
| 5 | Next day a newspaper reporter asked the young men if they thought it would have been fair for the crowd to kill them . |
| 6 | ‘ He asked the senior players if they 'd seen anything as they came away from the dressing-room and they said they had n't . |
| 7 | They checked the two men as they left the air transporter . |
| 8 | The cai prodded the five men until they began hobbling on their swollen , bleeding feet around the edge of the circle formed by their fellows . |
| 9 | A sardonic gleam entered the grey eyes as he paused . |
| 10 | He hummed the little tones as he pressed each key . |
| 11 | One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ? |
| 12 | The only speech that mentioned the enormous opportunities that we now offer tenants for participation in management systems was that of my hon. Friend the Member for Epping Forest . |
| 13 | Ian Dixey , proscuting , said the boy approached the two girls as they sat on the pavement , and demonstrated with a match how an aerosol can be used as a flame-thrower . |
| 14 | There had been partisans hidden up there during the war , before you … but now only the shepherds used the long-abandoned houses and they went up on foot with their flocks . |
| 15 | We did so , heaving and pushing until the bed moved a few inches and I saw the slight scorch mark on the stone floor beneath . |
| 16 | Tony and I unpacked the Upski parachutes that we had so lovingly tended all the way from the UK . |
| 17 | She felt reassured from the article that other people suffered the same symptoms as she did , and could already identify her own propensity to jump to the conclusion that people looked down on her in the absence of any hard evidence . |
| 18 | Emily Mahon stood in front of the gas cooker and grilled the ten rashers that she served every morning except Friday . |
| 19 | Fagin inspected the handkerchieves and told the two boys that they were extremely well made and that he was very pleased with their work . |
| 20 | He lined us up in the corridor and told the other Corporals that he would deal with us . |
| 21 | In November 1958 he told the Western powers that they must leave Berlin within six months and make it a ‘ free city ’ , or he would sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany . |
| 22 | When he arrived at the BBC as deputy Director-General in 1987 , John Birt even told the Financial Times that he found the place ‘ crudely , thoughtlessly anti-Establishment . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Keep still , do n't panic , and you 'll be all right , ’ Trent told the three men as he handed them into the boat . |
| 24 | Mr Bush accepted the Pentagon proposal even though he told the United Nations that he believed ‘ we can achieve the level of verification that gives us confidence to go forward with this ban ’ . |
| 25 | One of them , Alistair Bruce , told the waiting reporters that they would have expected any charges to have materialised by this time . |
| 26 | I told the cleaning ladies and they came up and said , twiddled around with it and said that they could n't work out what was wrong and they were gon na get some engineers in or something , engineers ? |
| 27 | so they , I mean they flogged the cheaper lines and they could have through the door like |
| 28 | The London boroughs and metropolitan districts closely resembled the unitary authorities but they operated in a quite different regional context from that intended by the Royal Commission . |
| 29 | The simplest account for the relationship between risk and recall in this study was that subjects recalled the risky situations because they knew it was an experiment about risk , this knowledge could have affected their performance both at encoding and at retrieval . |
| 30 | A freak wave overturned the flimsy vessels and they were left floating in the water in their lifejackets . |