Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Morrissey put the home team ahead after eight minutes from a Kenny Irons pass and John Aldridge made it 2-0 eight minutes later after Irons rattled the bar . |
| 2 | Looking at it , Nutty realized you could use the Smiths ' bath without the Smiths knowing . |
| 3 | Alison met him in the same bar . |
| 4 | Charley asked him . |
| 5 | Ghosts did n't have to be stupid and scary like in stories Mrs Mills read them . |
| 6 | Father Devlin clapped him on the shoulder with a large heavy hand . |
| 7 | Devlin clapped him on the shoulder . |
| 8 | Colin asked her . |
| 9 | ‘ It is n't like that , ’ he began , but Ben interrupted him , a sharp edge to his voice . |
| 10 | For instance , when Oliver Reed made his now famous appearance with slightly more than a little Dutch courage inside him , he suddenly took it into his head that he wanted to sing . |
| 11 | One day Mr Brownlow asked him to come to his study for a little talk . |
| 12 | ‘ My name is Miriam Levy , ’ she said , her strong voice belying her embarrassment , but before she could continue Karlinsky interrupted her . |
| 13 | The thought of having anything in common with William horrified him . |
| 14 | Rowland sold it on to Murdoch . |
| 15 | Mary Pat Kelly met him first in the mop room of the convent where she was studying to be a nun . |
| 16 | Till the Union made them acquainted with English manners , the culture of their lands was unskilful , and their domestic life unformed ; their tables were coarse as the feasts of Eskimeaux , and their houses as filthy as the cottages of Hottentots . ’ |
| 17 | Harvey passed me two New York numbers on the Hanover exchange . |
| 18 | Hirst admitted he was slightly disturbed by the bid at the time , but now says : ‘ The fact that we 're playing Manchester United means nothing special to me , nothing at all . |
| 19 | Houghton asked her to instruct Gregson to call him as soon as he could . |
| 20 | Had Anna and Stephan led them in ? |
| 21 | The Nobel had afforded only a temporary alleviation of this condition : indeed , the abbreviated stay in Princeton , the rush back to England , and the trip to Stockholm made him feel worse rather than better . |
| 22 | He took charge of his third club in almost as many months after Alex Ferguson recommended him to St Mirren . |
| 23 | This hatred of Lloyd George on the part of both Baldwin and MacDonald made it very difficult for the Conservative or Labour Parties to contemplate either coalition with the Liberals , or even a tacit understanding with them to sustain a minority government ; and the politics of the 1920s can not therefore be understood without appreciating the widespread antagonism both to coalition and to Lloyd George personally . |
| 24 | After he had told this tale at the hearings , Representative Tom Foley asked him : ‘ Those were not normal public actions , were they ? ’ |
| 25 | William realised he would have to handle the unloading alone if the van did not arrive in the next few minutes . |
| 26 | gave it to Tim and Tim holded it in the right he put it on the floor and Ian pricked him . |
| 27 | The other major discovery that Magnus made he called the ‘ righting reflex ’ . |
| 28 | But the lingering memory of the ghostly horse and a nervousness which could n't be denied at the thought of meeting the Danbys made her feel more than a little awkward . |
| 29 | The difficulty was , Maddy made him nervous , and the more anxious he became , the stickier became his palms . |
| 30 | I am not sure why this quarter was called ‘ Chinese ’ except that perhaps its apartness from the regular secular and religious life of Salamanca made it seem like another country , and a far-off , exotic one at that . |