Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fru Gertlinger , the young wife of the gardener at the Villa , recently become housekeeper , made them picnic lunches and every day they rode out early to check their notes and make sure that they had missed nothing . |
| 2 | So you can get the three in there , and bung them in as one package you get them while they got them voucher things on offer . |
| 3 | I got them rust ones . |
| 4 | To this end , she created her Anti-Frown Plasters ( aka Able-Labels ) . |
| 5 | Queen 's University student Cathy Gallagher retained her O'Loan Ladies Snooker Classic title when convincingly defeating Stoneyford 's Cathy Pegg in yesterday 's final . |
| 6 | The day she found us infant boys and girls |
| 7 | Right up until the coup in nineteen twenty seven they had been following a policy dictated by Moscow , dictated by Stalin which told them form alliances with the Kuomintang , work with the Kuomintang , first of all trust Chiang Kai-shek , then when Chiang Kai-shek turned on them they were told to trust the left Kuomintang leaders who were based in Wo Han in the middle Yangtze valleys , and then they turned on them a policy , in other words , that had proved absolutely disastrous . |
| 8 | What about the people who wrote or told us life stories : how far can they be taken as typical ? |
| 9 | ‘ Our Blessed Lord lies here , ’ she told me as she handed me altar cloths and corporals to iron . |
| 10 | I would dispute this claim , saying that no one could be archbishop of a golf course , but Nigel showed me family records to prove his point . |
| 11 | The landlord of this slate-roofed building cooked them mutton chops which proved inedible , and Johnson 's supper , later traced in Boswell 's notes , consisted of bread and a lemon . |
| 12 | His eyes had popped , but the sensors inside his skull fed him heat patterns that were clearer than any visual input . |
| 13 | Normally , she thoroughly enjoyed her Thursday afternoons ; today , she was thankful when the session was over and the aspiring authors trooped out , clutching their masterpieces and chanting their thanks . |
| 14 | And we called them tramp coles but a lot of them called them tramp ricks . |
| 15 | And we called them tramp coles but a lot of them called them tramp ricks . |
| 16 | Do you know that bit in that er Top Gun where he , where they hit them air brakes sort of thing and the plane was going like that ? |
| 17 | A BALLET lover yesterday lost her £200 damages claim over what she rated as a bad performance by superstar Rudolph Nureyev . |
| 18 | ‘ Sam sent me screen tests of her and some other girls , and I went to London to meet her . |
| 19 | And er she says Jean I swear to God she says if she comes over near my door , I 've told Jim she says , I , I 'm ready for her I 'll beat her round that square and she said I 'm not like that but she says that 's just the way she says , and she hurt my kids when I sent them Easter eggs over , doing that she says , that really galled me , she says cos they were hurting my kids rather than me . |
| 20 | He 'd seen what Madge Grimsilk had done for Therese in Maritza , and had savagely braced himself to give no sign , no indication of anything when he saw her Luxembourg costumes . |
| 21 | She sent him theatre tickets for two anonymously and bought herself one for a few seats further back . |
| 22 | His family sent him birthday cards , but he never received them , he was already dead . |
| 23 | We sometimes drank small cups of China tea and he gave me colour prints of Chinese landscapes and mountain scenery at Christmas and the Chinese New Year . |
| 24 | The Royal Air Force gave me emergency rations , advice on medical supplies , and a day at RAF Cranwell to learn how to navigate with a bubble sextant . |
| 25 | I was six years old — it gave me goose pimples . |
| 26 | The manservant , Wu , took me in hand in his own way and gave me makeup lessons . |
| 27 | At the same time , researchers who were unaware of the results of the lead tests interviewed the mothers , gave them intelligence tests and looked for social factors that might be affecting their children . |
| 28 | You know when we saved them Berkeley packets ? |
| 29 | This day the butler went oot tae gie it a piece an it tore him doon wae its feets an mooth . |
| 30 | Through the first course , clear soup so strong that it almost jellied in an empty soup plate , he talked to Aunt Tossie while she supped up her soup delightedly and gave him gardening secrets for his mother . |