Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [pron] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's worth three times what he gave me for it . ’ |
| 2 | They sued the well-known actress Constance Collier for the £16 9s 3d which they said she owed them for the flowers which her maid had ordered by telephone to be delivered to the Savoy Theatre . |
| 3 | Aye going going flat out you know they 're er heavy rains the machines are going flat out er at the s one night I I sat I sat er all night and ne nearly part of next day at side of one of governors , to make sure it did n't shift no more than a about a sixteenth of an inch . |
| 4 | He showed me one day what he called his killing-bottle . |
| 5 | L.R. 162 was ‘ very close to it , ’ Ward J. defined the two questions which he thought he should answer , made findings of fact and answered those questions in the following passage from his judgment : |
| 6 | It was on one of these occasions that Guy Gibson was ushered into " Cocky's ' presence and , just prior to his appearance , the AOC had given me a slip of paper with the names of about 20 pilots whom he asked me not to recruit — as a favour to him — which was his style . |
| 7 | Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water . |