Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were then posted to 406 Sqn RCAF where we converted to Beaufighters . |
| 2 | We were glad to reach Rangoon which at that time of the year , early March , was very hot , and so Pop sent us up to Taungin-in the Shan States where we stayed with a delightful elderly American missionary , Miss Hughes . |
| 3 | The Romans left fewer substantial marks on what they called Caledonia than they did on southern Britain , largely because so many of their attempts to establish regional centres collapsed when they were recalled to deal with unrest in southern Britain , or even back to Continental Europe and to Rome itself . |
| 4 | A deal would need two big concessions from Mr Gorbachev that he balked at last year . |
| 5 | Diplomatically the Avignon popes gave more to Edward than they gained from him , and by their intervention , first to save his favourites and then to bring about peace with Scotland and with France , the terms of which were not relished by the people , the papacy went further towards gaining that ill-reputation which dogged it in fourteenth-century England . |
| 6 | ‘ She lost less weight on Saturday than she had at York and we have got to think of a crack at the Arc . |
| 7 | From thence he progressed into Formula Ford , with an Alexis that he bought on the never-never . |
| 8 | While both Angevins would naturally have liked to get their own way in both regions it is likely that the Quercy meant more to Richard than it did to Henry . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , she does look better , ’ replied Melissa , thinking that the return of Rodney 's jacket must have convinced Eleanor that he had at last been eliminated from police enquiries . |
| 10 | And since her birthday , she had been seeing more of Dionne than she had for years . |
| 11 | They have lent forms and skills even to the great serpent who beguiled Eve , who swallowed Jonah and who wrestled in the wilderness with the young man from Nazareth . |
| 12 | The sound of her own voice in the shimmering candle-light startled Hari and she rose to her feet , conscious of the silence around her . |
| 13 | Then , he wrote a West End musical based on his aunt 's Remembering Judi and it transferred to Broadway , with Nina Kenyon making an impressive singing debut in her original role , finally outgrossing everything written by Andrew Lloyd Webber . |
| 14 | See her on the Tuesday and she said to me erm Chris was coming round your house Saturday . |
| 15 | then er a week ago last night erm Jean and I went to the Lyceum together to see Arsenic and Old Lace . |
| 16 | Jean and I dashed to the back of Danny 's truck and wrenched open the door . |
| 17 | During those months you 've frequently explained how we would both benefit from informing the literary world of the trick Tristram and I played on it . |
| 18 | ‘ In the end , Veronica and I packed in Christianity . ’ |
| 19 | He was warned that he risked not being able to read Braille if he worked with the soil because it would cut his fingers and reduce their sensitivity . |
| 20 | Making our way through the crowds — great busloads of excited if baffled-looking Rajasthani villagers — Dr Jaffery and I passed over the moat and through the outer gate , part of the indecorous additional defences erected outside Shah Jehan 's fort by Aurangzeb . |
| 21 | Dr Jaffery and I passed by a cluster of black-chadored ladies spooning ice cream under their veils . |
| 22 | I had been very naive when we started out in Rotherham and it came as a shock to me to realize that not everyone can see the justness of a just cause . |
| 23 | Richard and he spent about a month here " punishing the rebels as each deserved " . |
| 24 | As Richard and I chronicled in our ‘ book of the ads ’ You Got an Ology ? ’ in the first two-week shoot we made ten commercials . |
| 25 | ‘ I remember I was in Brussels and I lost to Ivan Lendl . |
| 26 | Helen Stoner and I looked at him in surprise . |
| 27 | of Friday and we looked at the individual steps but we know , everybody says yes we ask the business , we came across and to put Gareth , can you take it through and explain what it is , and explain each stage so let's hear from Gareth then . |
| 28 | And he said well my father is doing today I ca n't do today I 'll do it Friday and I shouted down the stairs but he owes you a day you should n't be going in . |
| 29 | Well , it was only a bedsitter and Andrea and I sat on the one divan having a smoke and a glass of the fizzy stuff I always brought her , and I said , ‘ What about slipping between the sheets ’ ? ’ |
| 30 | Well I did we we talked about this , you see Mary Anne , half way through the conversation er Neil went out of the room so that I could to Mary Ann and I said towards the end of my conversation , you know , Mary Ann you 're a very wise person , give me some advice I said , I told her about Neil not wanting no not doing well on the driving , although he can drive she said he does n't want to do it she said do n't hassle him so when he came downstairs I said I 've been talking to Mary Ann and she sends you her love and because , of course , you know , we 've got a grandson , you know she had a son , my |