Sentegrams

These sentences, taken from English literature, have been jumbled up like an anagram; see if you can piece them back together.

Introduction

The sentences below, taken from well-known authors, have been jumbled up. See if you can restore them to their original order, with appropriate punctuation. Just as the word ‘listen’ can make meaningless anagrams (ilnets) and also meaningful ones (tinsel, silent, enlist), so also these jumbled sentences could make more than one intelligible sentence — but which one did our author write?

1. to anything add previous cannot I he statement my said. A. A. Milne

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2. the whistle three shrilly times was a blown time same at. John Buchan

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3. like Cheyne’s thoughts mind these passed a through flash. Freeman Wills Crofts

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4. the to you murderer have clue any. Freeman Wills Crofts

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5. think the are most world said I lovely in you all he lady the. A. A. Milne

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6. said surprise he you man young me. Agatha Christie

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