Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [pron] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With regard to taxation , jurisdiction , provisions , patronage and vacancies , even where the church suffered no new encroachments , it certainly recovered nothing which it had already lost . |
| 2 | I completed another tour of the mill and cottage , this time with Nigel in tow , trying to sound as objective as I could , as if I , too , saw mere possibilities , but as our tour progressed I could see that Nigel had warmed to it almost as much as I. He pointed out some ‘ interesting features ’ that I had missed , such as some of the wooden working parts of the mill machinery set high in the plastered walls , and told me what they had originally been used for . |
| 3 | Marcus told himself that he had muddled up some bears , examined his own dream , concluded it told him nothing he did n't know , and decided not to report it to Mr Rose . |
| 4 | They told him what he had always suspected : Diana was determined to walk out of the marriage . |
| 5 | He turned to go , then told her what she knew already . |
| 6 | They brought with them their families , particularly the young children , and under this stimulus the seaside holiday became something which it had not been in its aristocratic heyday — a family affair . |
| 7 | Well they just er they just forked them they they brought up the side what I said the boss , you see . |
| 8 | Bernice saw something which she did n't point out to her companions . |
| 9 | I was never much use at school work , but he said that did n't matter , what was important was finding something and doing it so that you became good at it , better than the others , and that made you a person , gave you something they did n't have . |
| 10 | The older of the young ones let out a sniggering laugh which developed into a hiccoughy laugh , the younger one hissed out , fuckin' bloody Paki ; a third voice , I could n't tell whose , said something which I did not quite understand but sounded like , and indeed was , National Front . |
| 11 | For the first time , I had something which she did not have . |