Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four of them lived in one house with the father of the two men . |
| 2 | The huge majority of them lived in rented houses in North Oxford . |
| 3 | They brought their families , some of them intermarried with time-expired soldiers who chose to settle here , too , and it grew into a real , life-and-death town , where everyone had a stake sunk so deep that when the legions started to leave , the locals still could n't get out . |
| 4 | The oldest tavern is the Vlissinghe , of which mention was first made in 1552 , but there are hundreds of little bars and cafes , many of them housed in olde-worlde buildings that have the Americans squealing with delight . |
| 5 | Few of them recovered from this experience . |
| 6 | The popes pressed their primatial and jurisdictional claims with impressive continuity in this period ; using every appeal to them made by Carolingian churchmen seeking to bolster their own positions ; making a bid to establish the authority of the papacy over the Bulgarian church ; declaring its sole power to establish a new archbishopric as at Magdeburg in 968 ; and developing the special relationship with the new Polish church at the turn of the first millennium which would ultimately bear fruit in a Polish pope at the turn of the second . |
| 7 | They stood together watching her , both of them moved by unfamiliar feelings . |
| 8 | ‘ Arise ’ is a registered newspaper ; the publisher 's name is under the masthead ; you 'll find me listed as assistant editor . |
| 9 | Yorkshire , in common with East Anglia , has an ever-growing number of memorials , many of them dedicated to Canadian squadrons of Bomber Command . |
| 10 | Many of them fled to neighbouring parishes where the manorial structure was far weaker and poor immigrants were not prevented from setting up home . |
| 11 | During 1981–2 , twenty schemes of Unified Vocational Preparation were run in Wales , all of them sponsored by industrial training boards and the further education colleges . |
| 12 | Among the developing countries that participated in the World Fertility Survey ( WFS ) , the median age at which women aged 25 to 29 years at the time of interview first married or entered a union ( i.e. , the age at which one half of them entered into conjugal union ) ranged from 13.1 years in Bangladesh to 23.0 in Sri Lanka . |
| 13 | He has two or three bidets in his house in Beverly Hills , but he has never seen them used in this way , with gusto . |
| 14 | They held them cradled across one arm and even with the bullet belts and all , they looked kind of funny . |
| 15 | ‘ Hey , Alec ! ’ one of them shouted from ten yards down the corridor . |
| 16 | When I asked about local amnesties , I was told : ’ It is for chief officers of police to consider whether offering opportunities for disposing of offensive weapons would be a worthwhile crime prevention initiative in their own force area . ’ |
| 17 | I asked about 20 people emerging from the polling station . |
| 18 | I said , Why do n't you just say , ‘ I asked about those records you ordered ? ’ |
| 19 | Sometimes I asked about these stories . |
| 20 | In 1938 I was offered a programme with full rehearsal and that I accepted , though when it came to the time I asked for separate section rehearsals — first strings , then winds — which met with some opposition , particularly as the orchestra was convinced that it knew the music already . |
| 21 | yes that was at quarter past eight Saturday morning and at ten to eight my aunty came at night and went fucking mad she said I want a dressing and I want it now , twelve hours ago I asked for that dressing and were n't done then came |
| 22 | I asked for certain research facilities and I got them . |
| 23 | My searches even led me to the absurdity of being directed to the deep freeze in one newsagent when I asked for Spare Rib . |
| 24 | I asked for professional counselling which I did n't get . ’ |
| 25 | I asked for one ticket and paid for it , then I watched him ask for the same and fish down inside his carrier bag and bring out a ten pound note . |
| 26 | I asked for special leave and borrowed the eighty pounds for a short-term return ticket on the letter-mail route to the UK . |
| 27 | I asked for more money because of Zadak : I wanted to give him money for rain . |
| 28 | I asked for more work — anything to keep my mind occupied . |
| 29 | And when I say I asked for more polenta , you will know that we were dealing with an intake situation of Road to Damascus proportions . |
| 30 | I asked for 15 rehearsals for the Benvenuto Cellini in Geneva ( in February ) and both the orchestra manager and the intendant at the house thought I was crazy . |