Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until I was eight I lived in the village of Feltwell in Norfolk where there was a joint RAF and USAF base . |
| 2 | After that I waited at the harbour until it was safe to go back to the beach without seeing the person I was dodging . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ When I was 12 I won the one length freestyle , backstroke and breaststroke events at the local schools gala , but after that I concentrated on the backstroke most of the time . ’ |
| 4 | I repeat that if one adds to that the £40 million from the foundation , the £20 million a year for football and the £1 million that I found for the champion coaching scheme , it is clear that our commitment to sport is greater than anyone 's . |
| 5 | Erm erm can I just say , just on the on the basis of Mr 's map erm I think that proves the point that er that I suggested at the outset of the discussion erm on this issue , that if you look at the distribution of settlements there outside the greenbelt , there 's nothing there that suggests that any of the particular sectors ought to be discounted . |
| 6 | When I was 12 I tunnelled into the side of the local canal and inserted a glass panel . |
| 7 | In 1985 I stood on the quayside , shivering in the cold drizzle , to watch Arthur Hutton plant the hedge , closely watched by his grandson Martin , who hopes one day to follow his grandfather in keeping up the custom . |
| 8 | So I did , just for a fortnight , but it was fourteen miles there in the morning , and fourteen back at night , and I 'm afraid I threw in the sponge ! |
| 9 | There is a marked concentration in the region of Sagittarius ( the Archer ) , and it was this which led to the discovery that we are having a lop-sided view of the Galaxy because we are not in the middle of it . |
| 10 | It was this which led to the appeal being re-argued before the Appellate Committee of seven which now reports to the House . |
| 11 | Half a mile or so along the valley bottom , the path converged with another which led down the hill from the village . |
| 12 | The Volkskammer passed a law on July 22 which provided for the re-establishment of the five Länder abolished by the East German government after the war : Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-West Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt , and Thuringia . |
| 13 | After this she returned to the house hoping against hope that in the interval her daughter might have returned , but there was no sign of her . |
| 14 | Her favourite line was Bernhardt 's , and this she copied into the front of each of the eighteen notebooks , at least the five of them that I still have ; Oh well , I 'll just buy the theatre . |
| 15 | And with this she went into the scullery , Mick following her . |
| 16 | This she draped over the line , pinning it with a row of clothes pegs . |
| 17 | This she confined to the pocket in her overall . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the party contained not a few who disapproved of the caution of the Labour leadership in retaining the electoral truce yet apparently obtaining so few significant concessions in respect of policy from the coalition government . |
| 19 | The incompetence of the king , and the arrogance and greed of the Despensers , had so alienated men from the court that none except the few who profited from the king 's favour would fight for him . |
| 20 | Some who came at the outset no longer come to events , but others have joined since . |
| 21 | Some who went to the surgery thought that Daisy looked like an animal herself , moving sometimes like a slow marmalade cat , other times like a bustling sheep dog-for she was a woman of moods — and seeming to combine the best and worst qualities of each . |
| 22 | We were delighted to have a distinguished group from Bulawayo fly over for the opening , and some who stayed through the week . |
| 23 | Though he noticed there were some who spoke to the superintendent and were completely ignored , while others looked as if they would have preferred to creep past unknown . |
| 24 | Given the Association 's fall in membership since the late 1940s , and given the views canvassed by some who worked in the field , exemplified by Bruce in The Highway , there were real fears that the WEA would lose its status as a Responsible Body . |
| 25 | Another who rose to the occasion was the shadow Scottish Secretary , Tom Clarke , whose speech , while a little lacking in vision , was delivered with a verve which must surely silence his critics . |
| 26 | This is a great part of the pleasure Matthew Spender found ; discovering craftsmen , for example , one of whom remembered who had built a palazzo in Florence , another who hid in the cellar for fear of thunderstorms , yet another who built him beehives . |
| 27 | We have maintained a high level of marketing activity in the traditional areas of our work with the result that we brought in a greater value of tender enquiries in 1992 than we did in the previous year , and this we achieved against the backcloth of a continually reducing market . |
| 28 | I suppose a guitar is only as good as the number of styles you can successfully impose upon it , and this one went through the card without a problem . |
| 29 | But then earlier laws had been concerned with tales about the monarchy , where this one related to the regent and the French . |
| 30 | But the particular psychological shock involved in this one arose from the fact that for the previous two centuries family ties among the landholding classes of England and Scotland and inter-marriage between the royal families had made relations between the two countries very close . |