Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Llewelyn felt the forces of heaven moving him , and aligned himself with them boldly , going without hesitation where they carried him . |
| 2 | When the olive-skinned Valentino was seen kidnapping a white girl and taking her to his tent where he seduced her , cinema audiences were treated to a franker exposé of naked lust on the screen than they had ever seen before . |
| 3 | Three hooded gunmen wearing Lebanese Army fatigues entered his apartment where they killed him , his wife and their two small sons . |
| 4 | The stories grew more inflamed with the telling and witnesses were about equally divided as to whether Beatrice encouraged Modi to debauchery or he provoked her . |
| 5 | said I 've got to get this one back for her mum or whatever said I 'm in a hurry then I met some guy on the field , talking to him and er |
| 6 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 7 | It was at , it was at the place where the football where you got us a grant playing with those little scum . |
| 8 | Tallis was prompted by this insult into an action that she knew she would regret . |
| 9 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 10 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 11 | I did n't want John thinking that I said he would get her one . |
| 12 | This is because this was the dead stock that we sent him . |
| 13 | I lowered my eyes once I knew he was all right . |
| 14 | He said it with such heartfelt force that I believed him . |
| 15 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |
| 16 | ‘ It was n't until he produced the ring that I took him seriously . ’ |
| 17 | I would n't mind betting that Bill 's lists that you gave him actually contained all these things and only then can we actually put them down in order . |
| 18 | His reply was so matter-of-fact , so lacking in emotion that she found it hard to believe . |
| 19 | There was going to be a riot so they brought her up . |
| 20 | Ruth did not have to finish what she had begun to say ; she saw from the look in their eyes that they understood her . |
| 21 | Shiona could see from his eyes that he meant it . |
| 22 | According to one report , he told a group of journalists that he believed he ought to have been given the interim presidency . |
| 23 | One of Crossman 's cardinal convictions was that Britain was run not as a democracy but as an oligarchy — and that view of his was perhaps partially reflected in my own youthful outburst against the essentially incestuous relationship between politicians and journalists that I thought I had discovered even within the people 's party . |
| 24 | Also they had to film the invasion in the dark so they gave us two lamps . |
| 25 | About this time I had , by a certain wicked attempt — for I had a bold heart which rather put me upon courting than avoiding danger — set a hornet 's nest about my ears so I thought it better to remove myself to France and be a little more discreet in my armours . |
| 26 | And last night he eluded his two markers to decisive effect although they shadowed him well for much of the match . |
| 27 | It was a bitter irony that he condemned her for loving a man who was out of reach . |
| 28 | The staff talked only banalities at her , until she could have screamed with irritation , and try as she might to ignore it , there was no doubt in her mind that they disliked her , these crisp women in their crisp uniforms . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't you see — ca n't you remember how it was ? ’ he asked , when everything was so indelibly imprinted on her mind that she knew she would never forget a moment of it . |
| 30 | ‘ I wanted him to chase me , not literally , though I would have been madly impressed if he 'd charged up Piccadilly on a white stallion , but I just wanted some firmer confirmation that he loved me . |