Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [pron] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 James Harris , writing in 1751 , saw that ‘ all Conversation passes between Particulars or Individuals ’ , and argued that when , at the formative stages of human language , a speaker met another whose name he did not know he addressed him by using ‘ , that is , Pointing , or Indication by the Finger or Hand , some traces of which are still to be observed as a part of that Action which naturally attends our speaking ’ .
2 A cheery old Berber made half his house ours at Tagmout .
3 But , we knew all our locals you see , we knew all their histories .
4 Took all our profit they did , the bastards !
5 For martial artists it mattered less what form you studied than that you made it a way of life .
6 These women gave all their money they ha , they made , till the day they were married , they handed it over to their mothers .
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