Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was already owed money by Hope for the times he had taken him fishing . |
| 2 | Jessamy remembered all the times she had seen him look like that in the past , when he had n't wanted her to know what he was thinking or feeling . |
| 3 | Lebna Dengel proved friendly to the Portuguese , although dissatisfied with the presents they had brought him and exasperated by their quarrels among themselves . |
| 4 | He had great respect for Palmerston , but ‘ after the speeches he had heard him deliver on this subject , he would be extremely sorry to obey his edicts on matters of taste ’ . |
| 5 | From the glimpses he 'd caught he believed she 'd had slight curves — he would n't have fancied her otherwise . |
| 6 | Looking again at the words he had written he realized that his face was once more tightening , his lips once again curling . |
| 7 | With the bricks she had unearthed she started to build a path around the perimeter of the garden . |
| 8 | His encounters with the eagles he met convinced him that he was not yet experienced or powerful enough to seek territory of his own , or to head for the far north-west where golden eagles are notoriously fierce and strong . |
| 9 | Even when the clergyman appeared from the vestry and began the service , the prayers he intoned brought me no help . |
| 10 | In the mid-1950s he had introduced them to the Naval College in Rhode Island . |
| 11 | His eloquence was somewhat impaired by the presence on the bed of the current mistress , the Roman Catholic Duchess of Portsmouth , but eventually he succeeded in having her removed and in persuading the King to send for the Queen to seek her forgiveness for the wrongs he had done her ; the King however kept putting off the administration of the Holy Sacrament , and Ken was removed from the room in Charles 's last hours as he was received into the Roman Catholic Church by a priest smuggled into the palace by his brother and successor , James II . |
| 12 | The wounds they inflicted left me with a permanent scepticism about science and the progress of research . |
| 13 | ‘ My love , my love , ’ and was flooded by the days she had called him that . |
| 14 | An idealist all the days I had known him , we had been very close . |
| 15 | She had never been kissed by him in all the years she had known him — apart from a brotherly peck on the cheek . |
| 16 | In all the years he had known him he had not heard of one instance of Tolonen using his position for his own advantage . |
| 17 | At first she did not notice him standing there near her cage in the darkening gloom but when she did she did something he had never seen her do in all the years he had watched her . |
| 18 | Very quickly erm er the Mrs said that er yes I do have a direct er line to God and one of the messages he did give me was that I should start to write Focus . |
| 19 | yes , and er , that , that 's one of the plants I had given me , yeah I have some lov I have some lovely presents you know really great they are , quite nice at the part we , we have a , the children they , they er have games for the children to start with we do for the grandchildren you see and then er we have the dancing and the erm disco , it was great , we have a lovely party every October we have and I have all my friends we had about a hundred and eighty this year I think , must of been |
| 20 | Fortunately , with a little knowledge of the ancient trade routes between Europe and Northern Asia , the places he named enable us to trace the route he followed and to identify other interesting locations the mission must have visited . |
| 21 | And I remembered too the guns they 'd shown me , with the barrels roughly brazed to patch holes that had been blasted-out by home-made bullets too misshapen to find a smooth passage through when the gun was fired . |
| 22 | That they 've done what they 've said they 've done , and made a note on the things they 'd said they 'd done , but they had n't done . |
| 23 | Among the things it had offered him was Maisie . |
| 24 | Mme Deloche became my mentor during this period , and for years after I left France , I used to send her Oxford Marmalade , Bath Olivers and Christmas puddings in exchange for the things she had taught me to make . |
| 25 | She stood in the foyer for a few minutes , jotting into her notebook the things he had told her . |
| 26 | She did not think it good , it was the first time she had played for weeks and the sounds she made disquieted her , but perhaps it was good enough for busking . |
| 27 | The lifeboat crew administered first-aid to the fisherman and despite the problems they managed to get him on board their vessel and return him to shore . |
| 28 | Perhaps he was n't without blame , but had n't she made the same kind of mistake when she had endowed Marcus with the qualities she 'd wanted him to possess ? |
| 29 | God knows the ways you found to help him fritter away his fortune . ’ |
| 30 | On the whole the Englishmen he commanded feared her : because death lay on her , and because she repelled it too . |