Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the far end , once again my , detector gave a nice small signal , quite different from the copper halfpennies , and as I dug down to retrieve this I had some idea in mind that this might be a hammered . |
| 2 | So it 's a very inconve if someone said to you come up er okay this you put initial values in |
| 3 | To allow for this we provided several opportunities in the questionnaire for teachers to make additional individual observations . |
| 4 | After this he spent long periods in Madeira until his death in 1907 . |
| 5 | Now 12 years old he carries top weight in the Maze Handicap Hurdle . |
| 6 | In April–May 1991 I spent 5 weeks in Japan , part of the time as a visiting teacher at Kyoto University . |
| 7 | During the nineteen-twenties she spent some time in London , and after her second husband , Maurice Platner , died in 1929 she moved to Johannesburg , where she died in 1932 . |
| 8 | ‘ In early 1991 we had particular problems in achieving the levels of service on the Back Office system which would enable branches to meet their business needs . |
| 9 | In 1660 he defended free grace in two public disputations at Allhallows against John Goodwin [ q.v. ] , the champion of free will . |
| 10 | Between 1895 and 1898 he published regular articles in the Studio . |
| 11 | In August 1648 he suppressed Royalist activity in the area and in August 1651 he firmly rebutted the entreaties of Charles Stuart and his army . |
| 12 | Lucky I had some biscuits in So whether it was er because my period started on Friday |
| 13 | In 1921 she investigated differential operators in quantum mechanics by abstracting their essential properties , taking these properties as axioms and building all consequences thereupon . |
| 14 | In 1960 she won golden opinions in Britain in Leonid Spigelgass 's study of autumnal courtship , A Majority of One ( Phoenix ) , in which she starred opposite Robert Morley . |
| 15 | At worst they put one peg in where we had three . |
| 16 | His malevolence towards Pound , his friend since their college days in Philadelphia , is extraordinary ; and when in 1920 he amplified this piece in the prologue to his Kora in Hell , Williams compounded the offence by quoting selectively from a private letter that Pound had written him . |
| 17 | In 1859 he passed first class in botany in the first examination for teachers organized by the Department of Science and Art , and this was his sole academic qualification . |
| 18 | When the stop of the Exchequer was forced upon the government in 1672 he received favourable treatment in the resulting settlement . |
| 19 | In 1917 he achieved great success in America as an unofficial representative of British interests . |
| 20 | He was greatly saddened by the death of his only son in action at Ypres , and in 1917 he published two poems in The Times , ‘ Bond and Free ’ and ‘ Wooden Crosses ’ , which aroused wide interest . |
| 21 | I made sure I had sufficient pellets in my jacket pockets , then headed out of the house for the Rabbit Grounds on the mainland , between the large branch of the creek and the town dump . |
| 22 | I 'm sure I have Etruscan blood in me . ’ |
| 23 | There 's no limit on the number of cheques you can issue , but do make sure you have enough money in you account to cover them . |
| 24 | At the impressionable age of fourteen she spent twelve days in Geneva , and soon fell under Malan 's spell : |
| 25 | Following the outbreak of the South African war in 1899 she gave private classes in London in these languages — classes which were transferred to King 's College , London , in 1901 ; in 1910 these were formally recognized by the University of London , the first British university to promote the teaching of Bantu languages ( Swahili had been taught in Berlin since 1887 ) . |
| 26 | All these people and all this musical history of Manchester , all these people together and , although I 'm sure they had each other in mind , actually facing these people is very odd . |
| 27 | However , I 'm not sure it had much choice in the matter , given that it made great efforts in the 70s and 80s to change its image from an ineffective amateur body into a responsible and professional organisation . |
| 28 | Operating from one room above Bishopsgate Fire Station from 1968 , by the time Silverman sold out in 1976 it occupied five floors in High Holborn , employed nearly 100 staff and was earning nearly £1m. annually . |
| 29 | After his retirement as secretary of the English Association in 1950 he spent four years in India , encouraging the growth of youth hostels in that country , and subsequently paid two extended visits to Africa for the same purpose . |
| 30 | Gillian snorted as she repeated her husband 's gallantry , but it was plain she took some pleasure in it too . |