Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or they put a sling round them or made a canvass and two supports on the side of it and the sling to be too hard on the cattle 's sides . |
| 2 | Indeed , Robert Trivers in the original path breaking paper of his that launched the whole theory of parent offspring conflict , without knowing it , predicted it . |
| 3 | He took her plump hand in his and repressed a shudder . |
| 4 | Roy , who was about four and had n't been used to drinking out of a glass , took a bite at his and broke a chunk out of it . |
| 5 | Quickly she pulled her hand away from his and opened the car door to scramble out . |
| 6 | She saw three public houses and a shop selling papers , but nothing that looked a likely candidate . |
| 7 | Nothing moved at the crossroads , or nothing that threatened a soldier 's life . |
| 8 | Nothing that rang a bell . |
| 9 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 10 | " It was me that shot the bull , son . |
| 11 | Why did you think it was me that wrote the letter ? |
| 12 | So there were parts of me that watched the naming ceremony for the new catapult with some amusement , even contempt . |
| 13 | ‘ Although it was an ensemble piece , ’ said Richard Lester , ‘ I felt that Michael and Rita Tushingham were the co-leads because we structured the film more around the two of them than did the play , which was a fairly even four-hander . ’ |
| 14 | He met the old T'ang 's eyes , a look of understanding passing between them that escaped the young Prince 's notice . |
| 15 | He conducted detailed negotiations with a consortium of the four clearing banks and , enlisting my assistance at occasional meetings , contrived an arrangement with them that made the economics a possibility , while , I have to confess , retaining some attraction for the banks . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , one of them that caused the trouble , he has n't got a father , you see , so therefore … and he was mucking about and she told him to get out and of course he answered her back , which I do n't think she could take really . |
| 17 | It was the oriental gentleman who sat with them that sent the shudders down Doyle 's spine . |
| 18 | In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live . |
| 19 | This was , this is what it said last night , one of them that lost the weight said , she said it must of been her , yeah |
| 20 | It is uncertain whether he composed this song himself or adapted an existing poem to the mocking , sentimental tone that was his and was already regarded as typical of Dublin . |
| 21 | Cos I mean , I remember saying that , they , he knew somebody that had a catheter for two years ! |
| 22 | Then , when he was done with that , he nodded to himself and blanked the screens . |
| 23 | He had not spoken to Miss Needham-Burrell himself and had no idea how old she was . |
| 24 | He was elegant in a long black close-fitting Indian coat ; and when he shook Mr Biswas by the hand Mr Biswas surrendered to his graciousness , at the same time noting with satisfaction that Pankaj Rai was as short as himself and had an equally ugly nose . |
| 25 | ‘ Looks like an Easter egg , ’ murmured Busacher to himself and heard a snort behind him . |
| 26 | Barth himself later said that he had been like a man who , tripping in the darkness of the church tower , had accidentally caught hold of the bell-rope to steady himself and alarmed the whole countryside . |
| 27 | He looked himself and saw a tall old woman coming towards them . |
| 28 | Louis put a hand up to the boom to steady himself and crossed the cockpit to where Gomez lay on the cockpit sole like a beached grouper . |
| 29 | He was a virtual dictator but had to write every letter himself and took no leave for fifteen years . |
| 30 | He is married to a Spaniard , owns property in Spain , has worked there himself and made a fortune , too . |