Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I made Midnight Express I had to play a man who was in a permanent messed-up state . |
| 2 | I had agreed to this in case I had to have a Caesarian . |
| 3 | The prints were about my own size , 6½ and my own guess for what it is worth , since , as a cadet I did own a pair of hob-nails , is that my own almost religious love of country railways had revealed a kind of secular stigmatic effect . |
| 4 | With some difficulty I managed to get a permit to travel from Parma in a bus which went up into the hills to Lagrimone ; once there , I would walk to the house of a Signor Ugolotti , some distance from the village . |
| 5 | If it were not for the fact that he was one of the favourites you 'd have been delighted but as a Gold Cup winner I had to feel a bit disappointed . |
| 6 | For my additional assessment I had to plan a facility for a chosen client group . |
| 7 | At university I chanced to meet a detective sergeant who had been in the Durham drug squad outside the Sociology building in New Elvet , Durham city . |
| 8 | In the struggle I had lost a scarf I valued but never went back for it . |
| 9 | Sure enough , within a couple of minutes I had raised a trucker . |
| 10 | On the way to Ruritania I decided to spend a night in Paris with a friend . |
| 11 | I went to the Maly Opera Theatre that night and saw Verdi 's Otello , and with the voices still occupying my mind I decided to take a subway down the Nevsky and have a drink at the Astoria . |
| 12 | Many years later when I first visited the States I began to understand a bit of how they felt , as I too was then in an alien land — and make no mistake , America is an alien land , for all that we share a language and many common roots . |
| 13 | Since John 's abduction I had kept a diary , hoping somehow that I could capture the time John was missing , to keep things from fading so that I could share them with him when he came back . |
| 14 | And I wanted a particular tape , oh I know it was a tape I 'd heard a coach driver using on the er on a coach trip that I was on so I got to know what it was erm and er I went round the usual shops no joy |
| 15 | At the beginning of the riot I went to take a picture of this one anarchist and he whacked me with a stick really hard . |
| 16 | To sit down in a cafe you had to buy a cup of tea . |
| 17 | They seemed like two equivalent ways of saying the same thing , and which form of words you chose seemed a matter of taste . |
| 18 | This meant that to go for a crap you had to take a shovel and dig a hole which was hard work when the ground was solid . |
| 19 | ( Sometimes this involves a quasi-symbolic element : for example in moments of danger they remember a bear they had seen a cave by the sea ( pp. 79 , 95 , 102 , 179 , 182 ) . |
| 20 | In Kee 's fine dark eyes he had read a call for help . |
| 21 | He first began to think about the repercussions of such hard commercial decisions in 1971 , and by the time that he 65 became chairman of British Steel upon the untimely death of Lord Melchett he had formulated a way to ease the hardship . |
| 22 | At Cromcruach he 'd met a mechanic named Mike , who seemed in a terrible state . |
| 23 | The tale is slight ; a voyage on a luxury train during which a down-on-his-luck-but-permanently optimistic producer attempts to regain the services and the affections of the famous actress he helped become a star . |
| 24 | Green was not satisfied with his output , and after completing the Guide Books he intended to publish a series of studies on the neighbourhood of Kendal , centred around the Castle . |
| 25 | Soon Godwin was to sell the shop to Collins — and trigger its slow decline — but before he quit for a job as chief editor with Penguin Books he decided to open a paperback section in Old Compton Street . |
| 26 | By the end of six months he had had a breakdown and was asked to leave . |
| 27 | As a boy I had read a lot of sea stories and indulged in fancies of rounding the Horn in a windjammer . |
| 28 | On her way to her desk she tried to collect a beaker of iced water but the machine was empty and a knot of querulous men were standing around it demanding something be done . |
| 29 | long , very nice , very posh , erm I do n't know what me dad 's is like , er me mum was laughing er yesterday erm with er doing all this work she 'd done a load of washing and pegged it all out and when she 'd got in from work dad had ironed it all |
| 30 | Bringing her mind back to the keys she suggested having a photograph taken so that there would be a record of them if it was ever needed . |