Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] [vb past] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 One night he nearly caught her , so she climbed up a lamppost. and waited until he had gone .
2 Then in a tobacconist 's window she saw ‘ cigars ’ marked fourpence and thought that they looked something like the kind she had seen Chignell buying the other night .
3 He was playing her like an angler with a fish and knew that she would soon be netted .
4 He got into a good crowd , people that thought like he did .
5 Her parents , although they loved their daughter , were not the most understanding of people and assumed that she was being disobedient .
6 Moves towards healing in that context were made in 1986 when The United Church of Canada apologised to the Native people and confessed that they had ignored the wisdom and riches of their spiritual traditions .
7 Reaffirmed its support for the Palestine Liberation Organisation as the ‘ sole legitimate representative ’ of the Palestinian people and stated that it should play a full role in a UN conference to negotiate a settlement to the Middle East conflict .
8 In this survey they looked at the different kinds of training and jobs undertaken by black people and found that they were likely to be doing worse jobs than white youth irrespective of their qualifications .
9 Suzuki admitted that he had received 10,000,000 yen from Abe which he had neither declared as a political donation nor as personal income , and Shiozaki acknowledged the receipt of 20,000,000 yen but denied that it had been a bribe .
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