Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catlin 's display was the base for County 's first League win of the season and Warnock admitted he took a risk when dropping experienced keeper Steve Cherry , Meadow Lane 's player of the year . |
| 2 | Casabona admitted he forced a woman lodger in the house to go to a bedroom where he tied her up with adhesive tape . |
| 3 | When the tower walls swung back into focus Isabel found herself clutching a chainmail tunic , quite unaware of the metal links cutting into her palms as she gazed straight into the ice-blue eyes of her husband . |
| 4 | Kathleen found herself heaving a sigh of relief . |
| 5 | Renault showed they had a winner for the first time at the 1979 French Grand Prix when Jean-Pierre Jabouille ( Fra ) was first , with team-mate Rene Arnoux third . |
| 6 | It was not because he would be embarrassed if Mrs. Hennessy knew he had a girl staying there , he told himself . |
| 7 | Keynes thought it resembled a Gruyère cheese — holes without the surrounding cheese ! |
| 8 | Police were called to Hulbert close early this morning , after neighbours of 57 year old Derek Morley saw him shooting a rifle in his back garden . |
| 9 | Richard said he saw a raven . |
| 10 | Richard said he saw a raven . |
| 11 | Richard said he saw a raven . |
| 12 | Mr Maggs said he saw a friend of his being ill-treated in the back of the van , The police were using too much force . |
| 13 | Swales said he had a lot of flair , but admitted he was an unknown quantity . |
| 14 | Mortimer advised him to find a linguistics expert who could advise them on the meaning of the word ‘ bollocks ’ . |
| 15 | Trent imagined him holding a golf club but the callus did n't fit . |
| 16 | Ronni imagined she saw a question form in his eyes and already she was forming her answer in her head . |
| 17 | Ronni felt him flash a glance across at her . |
| 18 | Have you found a cloth , Christopher did you find a cloth ? |
| 19 | Hope did you have a look in one of those ? |
| 20 | I could n't say , You 'd give them such a shock that it 'd come as small fry when Darling Bina said she wanted a career on the stage . |
| 21 | Catesby instructed us to take a bench leaning against the far wall and , though the space was narrow , we began to pound at the door like besiegers breaking into a castle . |
| 22 | When sitting astride a conveyance that prefers hay to unleaded , you should remember that John Wayne made it look a lot easier than it is . |
| 23 | they bought it for Marg when she was ill and Phil taped you know a lot of his records and some of Marg he 'd got and that was it I suppose that 's what sort Bill plays now . |
| 24 | But when he was with her alone Wilson watched him kicking a ball down her stairs and fight with Ferdinando in her kitchen and knew the time would come when his mother must face facts . |
| 25 | Julia watched him take a handkerchief from his trouser pocket with one hand while shaking the debris of the cat 's cradle from the other . |
| 26 | In 1918 Sanders thought he had a chance to become Chief Secretary for Ireland , but was soon reduced to considering himself as a possible Speaker ; in 1921 he was passed over for Chief Whip because it did not suit the coalition to have such a partisan in so sensitive a post . |
| 27 | ‘ WHEN I knelt at the spot where Donald died I felt a knot that has been tied up inside me for three years slowly unravel . |
| 28 | As he went down again , and traversed the headmaster 's hall on his way to the study , Pumfrey thought he caught a glimpse of the head 's pallid face through the crack of an open door . |
| 29 | Someone was beating what sounded like a tambourine , and , high above all this , Robert thought he heard a flute . |
| 30 | Carrie thought she caught a moment of panic in Annie 's eyes and she held up her hands to reassure her . |