Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the trial , Lord Maclean heard a taped confession where MacIver admitted that he suggested which lorry to hijack and drove to Inverness a week before the robbery to check the vehicle 's routine . |
| 2 | Whitlock asked as he helped her to her feet . |
| 3 | ‘ All right , all right , ’ John Williamson grumbled as he made his way to the table and sat down . |
| 4 | Yet in his interview with the editors of the magazine Movie Hitchcock agreed when they suggested it was a zoom-out while the camera tracked in , the precise opposite . |
| 5 | She made herself as comfortable as she could , listening to the sounds Travis made as he zipped himself into the sleeping-bag and made himself comfortable . |
| 6 | It was to these that Frankie clung as he inched his way upward , making tortuously slow progress away from the slippery edges of the beck . |
| 7 | Richard phoned and she told him about it , omitting the part about her offer of a donation . |
| 8 | Hari gestured that he follow her through the door into the small back yard and from there into the small workshop . |
| 9 | It had been a slip on Doreen 's part , Lucy recalled as she found herself wondering what the situation had been with Clive . |
| 10 | Grumman veterans bear the scars from the company 's many setbacks , especially the export triumph Grumman scored when it sold lots of F-14 Tomcats to Iran under the shah . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , that 's in the past , ’ David murmured as he cuddled her . |
| 12 | When Christians hear that they usually think it 's spelt S O N but it is n't , it 's S U N and the Sun of Righteousness er with healing in his wings , so Freud says and I believe it 's actually this seen it , it 's very common on Egyptian monuments it 's a picture of a sun er with , with wings , with rays shining out of it . |
| 13 | if , if Freud 's theory of the group is correct , that it 's centred on the leader playing the super role then the presumably the leader could exhort members of the group to act better than they normally would , because after all one of the super leader 's functions is to set the goals for the ego and to give the the goal , the ego something to aspire to so er and as Joy mentioned in her papers and I 'm trying to remind you of , y you , you said that quoting Freud if you recall that , that , that Freud says and I think he , he , he repeats this from the also made the same observation that in a group or a crowd people can act a lot worse than they normally would , they can be more destructive , primitive erm and er more governed by their erm base emotions as it were , but equally in a crowd people can act better than they normally would . |
| 14 | Travis frowned as he handed her a mug of soup . |
| 15 | Dana claimed that he expanded his diary into the narrative Two Years Before the Mast ( the significant subtitle is ‘ An authentic narrative of a sailor 's Life at Sea ’ ) in order to represent the seaman 's view ignored in other sea-stories , but as a young undergraduate , sent to sea for his health , he presented a life of hardship and monotony from an educated point of view and seems in any case to have been more concerned with exact recording of weather , cargoes and seaman 's techniques than with personal behaviour and attitudes . |
| 16 | Shiona sensed that he knew she had something on her mind . |
| 17 | ‘ It looks abandoned , or seldom used , ’ Travis observed as he elbowed his way inside . |
| 18 | Jeff grinned as he said it . |
| 19 | ‘ He likes all women , ’ Kylie giggled as she recalled his masculine effect on her and the other girls in the show . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , I 'm relieved to see that you have n't changed after all , ’ Ellen remarked as they lit their cigarettes . |
| 21 | After that long silences fell between them , and as they rode across the fields the thoughtful frown on Silas 's brow made Lucy wonder if he regretted his offer of comfort by means of an embrace and — and a kiss . |
| 22 | Lucy swallowed as she sent him a nervous glance . |
| 23 | Like a shark , she 'd have to keep moving to survive … and some shark , Lucy thought as she shouldered her way through into some windowless corridor which echoed with the tinny sounds of the show playback , coming through on a cheap relay speaker . |
| 24 | When the illicit treat was over Richard insisted that they find their benefactor , now at work in the hot , wasp-infested interior of the raspberry cage , and thank him . |
| 25 | Sue insisted that we take her telephone number and told us that we should feel able to ring her at any time , day or night , with any problem , however trivial it seemed . |
| 26 | ‘ Ruthven died because he knew something . |
| 27 | With her mind and her intellect Shiona knew that she hated him , yet , shamelessly , wantonly , her body still craved him . |
| 28 | Archibald Campbell of Port Ellen tells that they built their own houses on their holdings and " nearly all the householders in the village have one cow . " |
| 29 | Archibald Campbell of Port Ellen tells that they built their own houses on their holdings and " nearly all the householders in the village have one cow . " |
| 30 | Ahead of him Arkhina gasped as she lost her footing and slid almost to the water 's edge . |