Example sentences of "the [noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time in over forty years someone had humbled him on the board he considered his own . |
| 2 | In the Preface he resituated his earlier formulations as follows : |
| 3 | Even on the field he had his own personal trademark — flapping shirt sleeves and long , baggy shorts , which served both as a landmark for his colleagues and to help keep out the cold he felt so badly . |
| 4 | Sneaking across the kitchen she made herself some bread and margarine . |
| 5 | In the interview she expressed her enormous relief at the return of the collection built up by her husband Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah since 1975 and now totalling around 20,000 items . |
| 6 | While she changed , she could hear the others laughing and singing and when she emerged from the changing-room she found them all in the foyer waiting for her to emerge . |
| 7 | This week William and his horse Chaka have been training with the rest of the British team at Badminton … back in the spring they enjoyed their finest hour here when they finished seventh in the annual championships … |
| 8 | In the dream she lifted her right hand and stretched out her arm , the tiny pistol almost lost in the palm of her hand , pointed it at the man who had once been her lover — and shot him dead . |
| 9 | When we fed them before the winter we gave them proper er fertilizer for things that need acid soil . |
| 10 | An idea began to form in his mind , but the Governors were apprehensive about taking on more commitments — faced with the abolition of the Direct Grant , they had decided to go " Independent " , and in the circumstances they thought it best to consolidate and take stock , rather than expand . |
| 11 | Because they had been confused and upset early on in the campaign they found it hard to relax and trust us . |
| 12 | In the process he proved himself one of the sport 's great survivors . |
| 13 | In the process he proved himself one of the sport 's great survivors . |
| 14 | The other girls disliked her for her outstanding looks and her haughty ways and made no attempt to be friendly on anything but the most superficial level and the pattern cutters and sewing hands hurried home to their families and boyfriends the moment they finished their long day 's work . |
| 15 | On the spur of the moment I offered him 40 — he almost wept in gratitude . |
| 16 | ‘ I knew it the moment I saw it last Sunday . |
| 17 | I knew from the moment I saw my squashed , bloated foot and my ankle that my trousers would have to be cut off . |
| 18 | Flowers looked a figure of total confidence from the moment he made his first save from Brazilian skipper Rai . |
| 19 | Sharpe tried to draw his own sword , but the moment he took his right hand off the reins he almost fell and the mare immediately tried to check . |
| 20 | Just at the moment she had her own anxieties without being expected to worry about other people 's . |
| 21 | The moment she heard his soft Irish voice , Ruth remembered . |
| 22 | What was happening in Europe whilst this was happening cos that 's after the war they had their own development and they developed a different type of machine called a flat machine . |
| 23 | And I would also point out that we are not proposing excessive development , in one of the papers I 've I 've put round , and I repeat the point I made it earlier . |
| 24 | Was there no end to the horrors he thought her capable of ? |
| 25 | Be before you were chosen by whatever process a number of us was asked to comment and one of the things I felt it important to say was that the URC plays a very important role both in being a bridge between all these nations but also serving a particular reform tradition within Wales . |
| 26 | At the beginning I found it hard work because he did not seem able to concentrate . |
| 27 | One theatre management which gave concessionary tickets , for instance , had never thought about the problems it caused its older customers by refusing advance booking and forcing them to queue for standby tickets . |
| 28 | Now , on the back I bought him some extra fog lights for back and I bought him them fog lights that goes int window . |
| 29 | If you then specify your equation , so it 's L N T C your dependent variable space , whatever the name you called your constant then L N I space L N P . |
| 30 | Robyn could tell the minute she met their curious glances . |