Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up a fallen branch , and as he passed I struck him on the head . |
| 2 | Inevitably , when he arrived home he found he had nothing but a blank sheet of photographic paper . |
| 3 | And handed them handed them to the people . |
| 4 | For example at Edgehill , a GIST pack for discussion of sex roles — Gender in Our Lives — was used in the personal and social education lessons , with teachers talking honestly and openly about their personal experience ; as it happened they found themselves in the middle of a discussion about fathers being present at childbirth , and the children were obviously fascinated by this new view of their teachers as emotional beings . [ … ] |
| 5 | He tapped her on the shoulder-Excuse me — and when she turned he took her by the wrist and round the waist , holding her close , whisking her on to the floor . |
| 6 | When Paullus saw at Olympia the gold and ivory statue of Zeus by Pheidias , he declared he felt himself in the presence of a god . |
| 7 | Then one day Mr Flowerdew he went out and bought a horse , a rather special horse ; and when he wanted it shod he sent it to the blacksmith shop at Scole , Mr Woodcock 's . |
| 8 | He claimed he associated himself with an abnormality that characterised the outstanding personalities of history , such as Confucius , Jesus Christ , Julius Caesar and Hitler . |
| 9 | Laming claimed he knew nothing about the drugs ring and said Black put up £10,000 towards development of the stun gun . |
| 10 | Once the fry hatched I moved them into a tank of their own . |
| 11 | Cressy had been moored at Tardebigge for four years while Rolt undertook various forms of engineering war-work , but when peace returned he threw himself into the task of preserving the canal system . |
| 12 | When the BUF developed it created something of a stir as the various political parties adjusted to its presence . |
| 13 | As they strutted along to Marvin Gaye 's Motown smash hit I Heard it Through the Grapevine , these wrinkled little fellows captured the hearts of American youngsters . |
| 14 | Some have expected to sleep with anyone they fancied who treated them to a night out — or , in the case of a man , expected bed for the night in return for dinner . |
| 15 | I watched him put something in the captain 's hand . |
| 16 | In Three Men in a Boat he tells how , having gone through a medical dictionary at the British Museum — to check if he had hayfever — he decided he had everything in the book except housemaids knee . |
| 17 | I told her I had a job for Duncan and there was money in it and that was enough for her to yell ‘ Duncan ! ’ so loud I felt I heard it without the need of the phone . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought I saw you in the crowd . |
| 19 | Er I thought I had one in the house yesterday I went , as Sheila was going erm Jackie was in her garden |
| 20 | ‘ I thought I had him in the second round be he wriggled off the hook . ’ |
| 21 | I cried out in relief and happiness : I thought I recognised him as a former schoolmate , a boy with whom I used to exchange groans about the maths problems whose solutions so frequently eluded us . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought I recognized you from the television . ’ |
| 23 | Before my mother died she told me of a letter to me , held in the bank , which I was to receive on her death . |
| 24 | Six years before she died she presented it to the Municipality of Antibes ; now pieces she and her husband acquired in the Twenties , particularly from the 1923 sale of the Anthony de Rothschild collection at Aston Clinton , are coming up . |
| 25 | Thought you said something about a chicken . |
| 26 | Well I thought you wanted it in the minutes . . |
| 27 | And then she quite confounded me by doing exactly what I advised , and I always thought she took me for a crank whose horse sense , if any , was a forced calm not to be heeded . |
| 28 | She always had half an eye for him ; sometimes I thought she watched him as a tamer does a tiger . |
| 29 | A cashier thought she recognized him as the man who had done it . |
| 30 | In a remarkable public statement , Anne insisted she said nothing of the sort . |