Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [pron] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one thing , he found it hard to accept that anyone who lacked the advantage of being American could pose much of a threat , and for another , he needed every scrap of material he could get from any quarter , even the newspapers , to sustain the nonstop barrage of reports he was firing into headquarters . |
| 2 | Harriet walked home wondering why she had not organised something of this sort before and marvelling at Mrs Rafferty 's complete acceptance of her own role in the community , one in which she obviously took it for granted that she herself had no need or right to ‘ a bit of a break ’ . |
| 3 | personally , I 'd have thought that anyone who heard a gunshot round our manor would have just moved away from the window and kept his head down , but I 've got to accept that someone may have phoned . |
| 4 | However , on Jan. 7 Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin declared that what he called the " budget war " was not over , and that although his republic had agreed effectively to increase its contribution to Rbs78,000 million by funding specific all-union programmes , the central government was still demanding an additional Rbs27,000 million . |
| 5 | But the women know that they themselves made the changes happen . |
| 6 | But it seems that whatever the century or means of transport , parking is always a problem : in the seventh century BC Sennacharib , King of Assyria , decreed that anyone who parked a chariot on the processional way to his capital would be punished by impaling . |
| 7 | A generation or more later , Baron Cederhielm , the Holstein envoy in Paris and chamberlain to the king of Sweden , was sent to the Châtelet prison at the demand of his creditors , while in 1772 the Hessian minister in the French capital was officially warned that his furniture could be seized and he himself refused a passport to leave the country if he failed to pay what he owed . |
| 8 | This does not mean that he himself thought a trust the ideal way to realize his intentions . |
| 9 | Sir Kenelm Digby , whose book of recipes collected from his contemporaries and friends has provided posterity with a graphic record of Stuart cookery , notes that he himself made a fine syllabub with syrup left over from the home-drying of plums ; being " very quick of the fruit and very weak of sugar " this syrup " makes the Syllabub exceeding well tasted " says Sir Kenelm . |
| 10 | Alan saw that she herself stroked the back of the child 's head rhythmically with her right hand . |
| 11 | It had long been believed that he who held the Tower , held London in the palm of his hand . |
| 12 | Erm but he got he got sidetracked by this guy , and they were talking and he he mentioned a photograph , and he got in like you know . |
| 13 | In 1837 the Committee of The Baltic Exchange , where the owners of cargo ships met shippers wanting cargo space , ensured that everyone who struck a bargain on the floor at St Mary Axe was in a financial position to honour it , that no one was admitted who was insolvent . |
| 14 | Well these had to be bent you see and they they saw a wee bit through them . |
| 15 | The mother was unaware of how much time and attention a young child required as she herself had a very deprived childhood in the West Indies where her role was as a maid to help her mother bring up her brothers and sisters . |