Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All who have kept wild animals as pets or got to know them in the wild have come to realize that they each have their own personality and manner of expression , within the constraints of that species ’ natural instincts . |
| 2 | I have run ahead of chronology however and in particular of the First World War , which the peoples that had entered it as parts of the Empire ended as free-standing independent nations . |
| 3 | It was his soft eyes that had put her at ease the first time she met him , when she timidly knocked at his door just a few years ago , the evening when Fred employed a helper and found his future wife . |
| 4 | The manufacturers of BSB 's MAC receivers , the traders that tried to sell them , and the public who were encouraged to buy them , have lost confidence in the whole business of MAC , Marcopolo and 31° West . |
| 5 | Rumours of a social evening at the Hall with the entire village being invited had n't exactly dispelled all worry , since it was his summer parties that had made him so unpopular around the area in the first place . |
| 6 | Smashing through the few Night Goblins that remained to oppose them , Duregar and Belegar headed west . |
| 7 | Blindly she hurried on , tearing herself free of branches that attempted to hold her back . |
| 8 | He had expected to have to batter his way laboriously through the months that had separated them , as through the stockade of a castle into which he must break by force of arms . |
| 9 | But will Charles and Diana ever find happiness in the homes that helped tear them apart ? |
| 10 | Familiarity with the voices that had haunted him down through the years had encouraged a bravado that was little like his real self . |
| 11 | But , as other African countries have discovered , African insurance companies were too small to carry major risks and had to lay them off with foreign re-insurers . |
| 12 | Climbing one branch higher , Virginia reached out and stroked the cat 's head ; then , gently , she placed her hand round its hind legs and began to ease them out of the fork . |
| 13 | It moved down between her legs and started to stroke her . |
| 14 | Wednesday it went very well indeed , yes , I , we made forty four pounds , twenty nine pence on the day and then Betty went to Sawbridgeworth with some cushion covers and managed to sell them off for another five pounds so we got . |
| 15 | He ruled the new generation with a rod , boys who had worshipped the hero as kids and tried to emulate him in their tennis-ball pick-up games — ‘ Bags I be Washy ! ’ |
| 16 | The Zoo authorities soon recognized that he understood animals and offered to promote him to be one of the keepers . |
| 17 | She banged her fist against the steering-wheel , fighting back the tears that scalded her eyes and threatened to blind her . |
| 18 | He had no ticket and she had a Season , and while he stood in line at the window they missed one train and she rolled her head and her eyes and seemed to think it a joke and when the train came there was one thought only in Millet 's mind . |
| 19 | She stayed under a side table in the front room until in 1925 my own dog ‘ Nip ’ , a terrier , took a dislike to this strange animal with glaring eyes and proceeded to tear her to pieces . |
| 20 | Alexander McLaren , 37 , is alleged to have shot Robert with a rifle , struck him with bottles , attempted to gouge out his eyes and attempted to strangle him . |
| 21 | To begin with the little-uns looked on Piggy as their parental figure because he always acted like an adult in their eyes and tried to make them laugh . |
| 22 | Lancaster slipped off his spectacles and began to clean them meticulously with a white handkerchief , scouring the rims with his fingernails . |
| 23 | He took off his spectacles and began to clean them with his handkerchief . |
| 24 | Henry claimed custody of the child but her kinsmen fortified their castles and refused to hand her over . |
| 25 | ‘ As a pup he was always asleep , so one day we put him in a pair of pyjamas and started calling him PJ . |
| 26 | Expecting that he would now let her go and retreat down the ladder , she was startled when his large hands gripped her thighs and continued to guide her until she was standing two steps above him . |
| 27 | He talked as if he never thought in words and had to invent them to describe the shapeless , bulky concepts in his mind as he went along . |
| 28 | Daphne took the tube , squeezed a white worm of cream on to Rose 's shoulders and began spreading it with her large , plump hands . |
| 29 | She shifted the weight of his arm from her shoulders and began urging him towards the front door before his fabrications began to get even more elaborate . |
| 30 | He took hold of her by the shoulders and began to shake her with all his strength , forcing her back through the hall towards the staircase . |