Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That stubbornness had got him through the last four years , but he had finally had to admit that walking out on his wife had been the biggest mistake of his life . |
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| 4 | ‘ What 's that look designed to tell me , Sarella ? |
| 5 | João went off hunting in the Alentejo with his friends for the last three days before the wedding , so Sara had little opportunity to get to know him better . |
| 6 | Still , it was the hangover of that piece of moral cowardice at Lochgair station , along with everything else , that led to me feeling so profoundly awful with myself that evening ( after the train finally did get into Queen Street and I walked back , soaked and somehow no longer hungry , in the rain to the empty flat in Grant Street ) , that mum had to call me there , because I had n't been able to bring myself to phone her and dad … and I still managed to feign sleep and a little shame and a smattering of sorrow and reassure her as best I could that really I was all right , yes of course , not to worry , I was fine , thanks for calling … and so of course after that felt even worse . |
| 7 | Of course it was not certain either that Zoser had done it or that , if he had done it , he had done it for sectarian reasons . |
| 8 | He would have preferred a pub , but somehow that writing-paper had intimidated him so he had agreed to a restaurant . |
| 9 | Rub through a hair sieve and use a very little vegetable greening to make it a pretty colour . |
| 10 | It was a flush of confusion and shame and despair , for she could see in his eyes that that stumble had condemned her . |
| 11 | Of course she had been in love , for years and years , and perhaps , she sometimes wondered , that experience had spoiled her . |
| 12 | She has suffered much in the last decade but that experience has given her the inner fortitude to shoulder the emotional burden she must carry on the next stage of her life 's journey . |
| 13 | How much might that experience have twisted her within ? |
| 14 | At his request , I had written the preface , and that preface had involved me in a most disagreeable situation . |
| 15 | Little Chef seems to like her . ’ |
| 16 | That break had made me realise I was n't in control of my career . |
| 17 | And if they have been on the market the terms have often been unreasonable , with little attempt made to advertise them . |
| 18 | The sight of that blood has made me feel a whole lot better . |
| 19 | In all cases , if the creatures actually get out of their cell they die instantly , since only the magic within each cell has sustained them so long . |
| 20 | Works of this kind serve to make it visible . |
| 21 | We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you and wish her a very happy retirement . |
| 22 | ‘ This result of this case has given us hope and will give us confidence in bringing more investigations to the fore . |
| 23 | ‘ This Budget has given me no confidence to spend whatsoever , ’ Mr Ingram said . |
| 24 | I must tell you Minnie that things have not been good between my old beloved mistress and me which it is not fitting that I should now go into but this blow has brought us closer together in our love and concern for Miss Henrietta . |
| 25 | His experience of flying this route has led him to conclude that the bravery and daring of the crews who took [ part in these raids was quite remarkable and deserves to be more widely known . |
| 26 | It was only then that Gazzer remembered what Simon had done : the intense activity of the last half hour had driven it out of his mind . |
| 27 | He thinks : " I am like a pool … some tide has filled me , the sand is swirling , the waters are obscured and strange things are creeping out of the cracks and crannies in my mind " ( p. 227 ) . |
| 28 | Another hour had taken him to a five-mile strip of dual carriageway cut through downland . |
| 29 | She knew perfectly well that if she gave him any warning he 'd find some excuse to refuse to see her , so , having dumped her own things in her flat , she went straight round to his , hoping to catch him before he went out . |
| 30 | The pain did , in fact , return the next day , but this experience had given me hope so I persevered with the lessons and now I am free of the pain for at least 95 per cent of the time . |