Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I seemed to advance towards him , my steps deviated in some way . |
| 2 | ‘ My forebears came from this valley , ’ said Lydia . |
| 3 | Their fingers slid inside each other 's clothes , over each other 's skin , stroking , testing . |
| 4 | And moments later the two met face to face — as their cars crashed into each other on a winding single-track road . |
| 5 | Her words tumbled over each other . |
| 6 | Their words ran over each other and they stopped . |
| 7 | Their voices rose on this note from the kitchen to saturate the bedroom above where on summer evenings you lay rigid with wakefulness . |
| 8 | The 1334 tax assessments and the 1377 poll-tax returns show which communities existed at those dates ( the latter also showing how few had disappeared between them ) , and make it clear that a high proportion of those which eventually disappeared were markedly below the average size ( 58 , pp.162–3 , 207 ) . |
| 9 | Her parents lived in another part of the country and her husband was in the army and away for long periods of time . |
| 10 | Social life for Malinowski was like capitalism for Keynes : ‘ a going concern ’ , in which individuals interacted with each other in pursuit of mutually rewarding transactions . |
| 11 | In that case the appellant rendering company and their predecessors had for many years carried on various offensive trades , namely blood boiling , bone boiling , fat extracting , fat melting , tallow melting and tripe boiling , without concealment , to the knowledge of the local authority and under the control of their inspectors . |
| 12 | There were more children playing among the rocks , while their mothers complained to each other ( I imagined ) about the price of grain . |
| 13 | The study begins by noting the high expectations that the pupils , their parents and their teachers had in this regard . |
| 14 | Its clerks had for many years to work in ‘ dark , stuffy offices , with smoke-grimed ceilings and an atmosphere compounded of overnight gas-burning and the indefinable mouldiness of adjacent ’ bookrooms ’ ‘ . |
| 15 | He was just warming up ; she knew the signs , knowing quite accurately the effect her looks had on most males of most ages . |
| 16 | It was far worse for the Arabs whose homes lay in that part of Palestine in which the United Nations had decided to locate the new state of Israel . |
| 17 | The inherent exoticism of the place can have only added to its allure and , for those whose tastes tended in that direction , the soft purring caresses and total availability of the bar-girls must have seemed irresistible . |
| 18 | This was the 1st Ukrainian Division , many of whose members came from those parts of Poland incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939 and which had been such a special concern of the AFHQ letter of 6 March defining " Soviet nationals " . |
| 19 | Most of the Irish Protestants are people whose ancestors came to this area several centuries ago from Scotland , England and even France . |
| 20 | Attempts to classify mental disorders and give them names ran into many difficulties . |
| 21 | He had left our school in our final year , when his parents moved to another town . |
| 22 | She had hoped his ideas lay in another direction , like an engagement ring . |
| 23 | His brows rose at this flash of spirit . |
| 24 | … stout Cortez , when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with wild surmise — Silent , upon a peak in Darién . |
| 25 | With so little at Gloucester 's disposal , it is striking that most of his grants went to former servants of his brother . |
| 26 | With so little at Gloucester 's disposal , it is striking that most of his grants went to former servants of his brother . |
| 27 | ‘ I agree with you , Roger , but your troubles began with that piece of red silk . |
| 28 | Did n't you notice how deep you were venturing into the countryside when you and your friends arrived at this party ? ’ |
| 29 | I do n't know if I can answer that to be absolutely honest I I mean I really feel that erm that would be reading too much into the decision that that our members took at that time . |
| 30 | Yeah I got some work and me boys got on some post putting up , he said , but mind you , it might er dry up I do n't know , it looks a bit er , thick does n't it ? |