Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were glad to reach Rangoon which at that time of the year , early March , was very hot , and so Pop sent us up to Taungin-in the Shan States where we stayed with a delightful elderly American missionary , Miss Hughes . |
| 2 | From thence he progressed into Formula Ford , with an Alexis that he bought on the never-never . |
| 3 | They have lent forms and skills even to the great serpent who beguiled Eve , who swallowed Jonah and who wrestled in the wilderness with the young man from Nazareth . |
| 4 | then er a week ago last night erm Jean and I went to the Lyceum together to see Arsenic and Old Lace . |
| 5 | Jean and I dashed to the back of Danny 's truck and wrenched open the door . |
| 6 | He was warned that he risked not being able to read Braille if he worked with the soil because it would cut his fingers and reduce their sensitivity . |
| 7 | Making our way through the crowds — great busloads of excited if baffled-looking Rajasthani villagers — Dr Jaffery and I passed over the moat and through the outer gate , part of the indecorous additional defences erected outside Shah Jehan 's fort by Aurangzeb . |
| 8 | Dr Jaffery and I passed by a cluster of black-chadored ladies spooning ice cream under their veils . |
| 9 | I had been very naive when we started out in Rotherham and it came as a shock to me to realize that not everyone can see the justness of a just cause . |
| 10 | Richard and he spent about a month here " punishing the rebels as each deserved " . |
| 11 | of Friday and we looked at the individual steps but we know , everybody says yes we ask the business , we came across and to put Gareth , can you take it through and explain what it is , and explain each stage so let's hear from Gareth then . |
| 12 | And he said well my father is doing today I ca n't do today I 'll do it Friday and I shouted down the stairs but he owes you a day you should n't be going in . |
| 13 | Well , it was only a bedsitter and Andrea and I sat on the one divan having a smoke and a glass of the fizzy stuff I always brought her , and I said , ‘ What about slipping between the sheets ’ ? ’ |
| 14 | Well I did we we talked about this , you see Mary Anne , half way through the conversation er Neil went out of the room so that I could to Mary Ann and I said towards the end of my conversation , you know , Mary Ann you 're a very wise person , give me some advice I said , I told her about Neil not wanting no not doing well on the driving , although he can drive she said he does n't want to do it she said do n't hassle him so when he came downstairs I said I 've been talking to Mary Ann and she sends you her love and because , of course , you know , we 've got a grandson , you know she had a son , my |
| 15 | And then we went to the er Pat and I went to the toy fair in Harrogate and one little thing has already come . |
| 16 | ONCE upon a time there was a postman called Pat and he lived in a village called Greendale , along with his black and white cat , Jess . |
| 17 | They put the parcels on the table and tidied the room while Frankie and I sat on the sofa and watched . |
| 18 | David and I went to the travel agency where I was working a couple of times and kept saying , ‘ What are you doing here ? ’ |
| 19 | He called a convocation of the greatest High Elf Mages and they assembled on the Isle of the Dead to begin the great ritual . |
| 20 | She was busy , making , while Edward and I ballooned through the intellectual stratosphere with nothing to show for our efforts but an increase of paper . |
| 21 | but anyhow it , well they , they were there and he bought the pub did n't he and they were moving on the Saturday and he came on the Saturday morning and he cried take the furniture to pieces , some of the furniture , the wardrobes and there was a dining room table that they could n't get into the pub , could I dismantle them and re-assemble them again and that was the first time I 'd ever met him were n't I ? |
| 22 | Later , Schellenberg called for his Mercedes and they drove to the Tiergarten and walked around the lake , feet crunching in the light powdering of snow . |
| 23 | The Sheikha and I got in the back while the Sheikh took the wheel . |
| 24 | Inchoate anger seethed on in the Weald until it exploded in the autumn of 1645 when the ‘ Clubmen ’ appeared , basically a ‘ confederacy with the vulgar multitude ’ of tenant farmers . |
| 25 | It.starred this kid called Ed Byrnes and he sat in a Ford Thunderbird or Chevrolet and he combed his hair like this , and he said , ‘ Hi-ya chick , howd'ya like to take a three-hundred horse power plunge into the landscape ? ’ |
| 26 | I saw him a few times more after that , in the months that followed , coming slowly up the lane from the station , as Millie and I stood at the gate . |
| 27 | ‘ Burt and I met in the early Seventies and became really good friends . |
| 28 | And , when Maisie and he got into the crowd , he was , of course , stopped by almost every individual in it . |
| 29 | We walked here through the gardens and the woods , past the hill where Andy and I lay in the sunlight all those summers ago , into the little glen , then up through the bushes and the dead auburn wreckage of the ferns , to the trees at the summit of the small hill . |
| 30 | We were to do it from Friday to Friday but I turned on the tapes on , when was it |