Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [coord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was on my way to the bank with £7,000 when a masked gang , carrying guns , attacked me and a friend who was with me . |
| 2 | In June the chairman of the opposition Birlik organisation , Abdurakhim Pulatov , needed emergency hospital treatment for skull fractures after four men beat him and a companion with metal bars as they left an interview at a police station in the capital Tashkent . |
| 3 | Initially our agents had no idea of who he was , but as I 'm sure you know it 's standard procedure to take photographs , and as soon as we compared them and a descrip-tion with our files , we were in no doubt as to who he was . ’ |
| 4 | Well I had Mrs in this morning she had a tooth out this morning and he broke it and he tried to get the rest out you know using a special instrument and he twisted it and a fragment of the tooth come off and hit me straight in the eye . |
| 5 | ‘ These Maillotins attacked the messengers and killed them but a party of royal guards , who by chance were in the vicinity , hunted the outlaws down . |
| 6 | By his statement of claim , the plaintiff alleged that on July 6 , 1932 , the defendants by their solicitor , a Mr. Kennard , verbally agreed with him that , if he would on July 7 , 1932 , pay the £208 in cash into a bank at Eastbourne for the credit of the solicitor 's firm at the Law Courts branch of the Bank of England , that payment would satisfy all sums that he owed them and a bankruptcy notice which they had issued in respect of part of the debt would not be served on him . |
| 7 | The teacher would haul him up and over , her angry voice taunting him , and he would try and remember that somewhere there was a mum who loved him and a dad who called him Tiger . |
| 8 | Suddenly a coughing fit seized him and a stab of agony lanced through him from back to front . |
| 9 | Some of them made it and a lot of them did n't , and the agencies , particularly the photo agencies , exploited these people mercilessly . |
| 10 | So I says , oh I says , saying what they were and she said , oh , she said , and I 've got some mugs Auntie Elsie bought you and a bit after and she said , she said , there 's them four mugs for Angela . |
| 11 | If you include nothing else , include the name of the program , the date you last revised it and a revision number at the start of your program . |
| 12 | She said nothing and a moment or two of silence fell on them like one of the Moor 's deadly mists . |
| 13 | Left me but a grave ? |
| 14 | As hospital staff try to get rid of the last traces of CS gas from the department many are still recovering from the ordeal , which left them and a number of their patients suffering the effects of the gas . |