Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the other Germans emptied it and I recognized among the papers the interrogation form which the naval officer on the island had filled in . |
| 2 | The point was the Germans hated them and wanted to get rid of them . |
| 3 | Which is why a ‘ real ’ popster like Mark Knopfler would shake his head in genuine dismay at Jamie Reid 's manifesto for Transvision Vamp , why your Climie Fishers make it and your Sputniks burn up in orbit . |
| 4 | There was a lock of Caroline 's hair to be cut , and plaster casts of her face and hands to be taken : ‘ I saw the great paws of those louts touching her and covering her face with plaster . |
| 5 | Ten minutes later , she miaowed if I approached her and it took her several hours to forgive me and to stop treating me like a walking cat repellent . |
| 6 | " The splinters prick you and its hard to breathe , but the peg 's nearly through . " |
| 7 | I 've gone to see my favourite players play — I 'd see them one night and they 'd be phenomenal and I 'd like the show so much that I would go the next night , drive two hours to see it and it would suuuuck ! and that 's just the way it is . ’ |
| 8 | Politically , therefore , the inducements to continue what the Plowden Committee call ‘ excessive social services ’ are much stronger than the inducements to discontinue them or to supplement any which may happen to be ‘ inadequate ’ . |
| 9 | Those operating an amplification system need to ensure that there is a proper balance between the sound of the musicians using it and those who speak on the church 's public address system , where there is one . |
| 10 | There were plans to revive it and turn it into an Ulster Loyalist pressure group when a leading member , Archibald Whitmore , an ex-member of the Ulster Volunteer Force , announced to influential people at the Bath Club that he planned to develop the BF in Ireland along the same lines as the movement in 1914 . |
| 11 | Her fingers found it and she pressed it down . |
| 12 | Pickets charged them and there was hand-to-hand fighting . |
| 13 | Laughing , she dodged his attempts to catch her and ran to the door . |
| 14 | ‘ He was yelling out in terror and must have run 50 yards before two blokes caught him and rolled him about the pavement to put the flames out . ’ |
| 15 | Staff made frantic attempts to revive him but he is thought to have suffered a massive heart attack . |
| 16 | Oliver was fairly proof against Emmie 's attempts to frighten him but this ingenious touch was too much . |
| 17 | In surprise , I searched for words to thank him but was forestalled by the telephone ringing . |
| 18 | The kids hate it but what can I do ? |
| 19 | Until his knees failed him and the cartilages were removed , he was also one of the finest of all cover fielders , with electrifying speed and a pin-point throw that seemed barely credible . |
| 20 | Each time she looked up his eyes met hers and she was unable to put a good face on things . |
| 21 | For a second his eyes met hers and then he came to her quickly , his body covering her own , pressing her down into the softness of the bed , his skin against hers an almost unbearable pleasure . |
| 22 | His eyes met hers and it was a slow , thoughtful look . |
| 23 | His eyes met hers and there was a slight movement at the corners of his mouth . |
| 24 | His grey eyes met hers and she was forced to smile at the gleam of amusement she saw there . |
| 25 | Her eyes met his and she immediately dropped her gaze , colouring slightly . |
| 26 | For one moment her eyes met his and fleetingly she wondered how much he had heard . |
| 27 | ‘ I told you , two or three cars passed me but they did n't stop . ’ |
| 28 | Two or three cars passed me and I tried to thumb a lift , but they did n't stop . |
| 29 | To A. M. Fairbairn , one had to visit America ‘ to discover how far we have travelled out of the darkness towards the light ’ , while to R. F. Horton , it was a land with ‘ truth open to all who have eyes to see it and those who have not eyes held in wholesome restraint from meddling with those who have ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ You know the heat is off , Ruth , ’ he told her , his eyes catching hers and holding them for a few seconds . |