Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One word of this and I tell your local rags where you learnt your craft . ’ |
| 2 | How many ships suddenly developed strange ghost personae ; mechanical poltergeists in the engine room ; voices where they had none before ? |
| 3 | I lowered my eyes once I knew he was all right . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ruth did not have to finish what she had begun to say ; she saw from the look in their eyes that they understood her . |
| 6 | Shiona could see from his eyes that he meant it . |
| 7 | Michael could see by the look in his eyes that he knew who had ordered his accident . |
| 8 | Some months after Wilson resigned from being prime minister , he admitted to two journalists that he believed there was a faction in DI5 sympathetic to the South African and Rhodesian authorities . |
| 9 | According to one report , he told a group of journalists that he believed he ought to have been given the interim presidency . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One farmer told the authors that it cost him 194,000 Somali shillings ( $14 ) to grow 100 kilos ( 220lbs ) of maize , which he could sell for a mere 55,000 shillings at the local market . |
| 13 | It was only after he took two bullets in the thigh and wrist and a shotgun blast in the back , and his brother was murdered by rival gangs that he channelled his aggression into baseball . |
| 14 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , wife of the Ambassador to the Sublime Porte in Constantinople , was so impressed with the results of this folk practice by the Sultan 's Greek subjects that she had her children treated and introduced fashionable society to its advantages in 1721 ; as much for the protection of complexion as for the preservation of health . |
| 15 | There are two other books that I co-authored which cover this aspect . |
| 16 | ‘ I was so wrapped up in my own performances that I needed someone with experience to help . |
| 17 | I mean , I had Tony to go through and find key words that we knew we were going to need , you know , simple words like the , of , with , a , that sort of thing , that we knew that okay , we would n't use immediately , but we 'd look , ah there that goes there , and use it straight away . |
| 18 | The way people talk over here is pure poetry and nobody is really using that in songs so I thought I 'd have a go . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work . |
| 21 | If you do give your heroine this skill you will have to some extent to prove to your readers that she had it . |
| 22 | The working party on Equal Opportunities that I said I would convene ? |
| 23 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 24 | besides a great many sins that he knew he had done that he could not remember . |
| 25 | Eudo had replied through swollen , bloody lips that he knew nothing , so the questioners changed tack . |
| 26 | I met the guys , loved the songs and they asked me to be their agent . |
| 27 | I could read ‘ Nike ’ quite clearly on his trainers until they disappeared one after the other into the Shogun . |
| 28 | The persistent pinging assaulted her ears and she forced it into her head . |
| 29 | His lips were doing wonderful things to one of her ears and she heard him swallow , then rasp , ‘ I 'm taking you upstairs to my room . ’ |
| 30 | Then the words rebounded back to my ears and I heard their sound and their meaning , and the pain came back at that moment , too , and it all made sense , the way a policeman 's knock on the door must make sense when you 've committed a crime . |