Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I seemed to advance towards him , my steps deviated in some way . |
| 2 | Blimey , 'is eyes bulged at that , 'e looked blue murder at me . |
| 3 | ‘ My forebears came from this valley , ’ said Lydia . |
| 4 | My reports went to all British newspapers , with special direct services by me to India , South Africa and West Indies ; even to King George V in Buckingham Palace , who loved his cricket . |
| 5 | Their fingers slid inside each other 's clothes , over each other 's skin , stroking , testing . |
| 6 | And moments later the two met face to face — as their cars crashed into each other on a winding single-track road . |
| 7 | Child-care was the only area in which husbands participated at all actively , and they saw that as helping with her job . |
| 8 | Her words tumbled over each other . |
| 9 | Their words ran over each other and they stopped . |
| 10 | Her eyes misted at this heroic image , and she poured herself a brandy . |
| 11 | Despite the lines round her mouth and the flecks of grey in her hair , there was a bloom in her cheeks and her eyes shone like those of a girl who has fallen in love for the first time . |
| 12 | Her pulses raced with that angry awareness she felt whenever he was near . |
| 13 | Their voices rose on this note from the kitchen to saturate the bedroom above where on summer evenings you lay rigid with wakefulness . |
| 14 | The 1334 tax assessments and the 1377 poll-tax returns show which communities existed at those dates ( the latter also showing how few had disappeared between them ) , and make it clear that a high proportion of those which eventually disappeared were markedly below the average size ( 58 , pp.162–3 , 207 ) . |
| 15 | Her parents lived in another part of the country and her husband was in the army and away for long periods of time . |
| 16 | Social life for Malinowski was like capitalism for Keynes : ‘ a going concern ’ , in which individuals interacted with each other in pursuit of mutually rewarding transactions . |
| 17 | Their days went like this : a ) dictate letters b ) meeting c ) lunch d ) sign letters e ) go home . |
| 18 | Last year its earnings rose by more than half , to £664 million , making a large contribution to the balance of payments . |
| 19 | The only sour note was when her memories coincided with those of the supporting artistes and she duplicated a couple of songs they had already warbled through . |
| 20 | In that case the appellant rendering company and their predecessors had for many years carried on various offensive trades , namely blood boiling , bone boiling , fat extracting , fat melting , tallow melting and tripe boiling , without concealment , to the knowledge of the local authority and under the control of their inspectors . |
| 21 | Solicitors acting for the pupils and their families asked for all 334 children to be screened for psychological sequelae to the disaster . |
| 22 | In America , she showed that her sympathies lay with those who favoured abolition of slavery . |
| 23 | ‘ It is exactly the sort of vital encouragement which owners needed at this very difficult time . ’ |
| 24 | Those who argued its virtues saw in this new kind of school an opportunity to blend the best in primary and secondary habits and , in particular , to extend for two extra years some of the freedom associated with good primary-school practice . |
| 25 | And consider , as Mrs Browning had never done , the close proximity in which servants lived in these rented apartments — it was very often more than flesh could stand . |
| 26 | There were more children playing among the rocks , while their mothers complained to each other ( I imagined ) about the price of grain . |
| 27 | Her answers looked like this : |
| 28 | The study begins by noting the high expectations that the pupils , their parents and their teachers had in this regard . |
| 29 | The really intriguing historical problems , which await further investigation , concern the manner in which policy-makers reacted to this inaccurate information in determining policy and the way in which it affected external relations , especially with international financial institutions , in particular the International Monetary Fund . |
| 30 | The oil crisis alone could not have shattered the confidence which capitalists felt during most of the golden years . |