Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of what one of the men ( the witness ) John Smith said to me I spoke to the accused etc . ’ |
| 2 | Well I lo I I looked at the fifty and then |
| 3 | Surely , a full life even for someone who lived to the advance age of 92 . |
| 4 | Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two . |
| 5 | Business Traveller recently published a letter from someone who stayed in the Inter-Continental hotel in Kinshasa . |
| 6 | The heretic was someone who quarrelled with the fundamental teaching of the Christian Church , not someone who criticized the trappings of religion . |
| 7 | Er I myself went for the nearest exit which was out a window , I assume everyone else erm panicked and I could hear quite a few people running running down the corridor from the first floor . |
| 8 | Now I have a figure in front of me which came from the International Air Transport Association who say that in January something in the order of sixteen flights were cancelled , and airlines lost more than five hundred million pounds in revenue , of which three hundred million was lost by European airlines . |
| 9 | He held that the judge had done nothing which went outside the proper area of his inquiry . |
| 10 | Perhaps these contradictory interpretations illustrate the dangers , to which I alluded in the earlier discussion , of assuming an automatic association between classicism and positivism and specific political ideologies . |
| 11 | This created two new corners , which I treated in the same way , and so on till I achieved the shape marked out . |
| 12 | I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes . |
| 13 | The revenue settlement is matched by the substantial local government capital settlement for ninety four five which I announced on the thirtieth of November . |
| 14 | As they went downstairs , Joanna said , ‘ I 've got one dress which I wore to the veterinary congress banquet . |
| 15 | ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera . |
| 16 | ‘ I certify that I have known Colour Serjeant William Nicholl late of the 8th ( or King 's ) Regiment for the space of ten years , six of which I belonged to the same Company and always considered him a man of most exemplary character . |
| 17 | I poured him a glass of the special malt which I kept for the rare occasions of celebration or consolation in my life . |
| 18 | He is , however , right about the basic seriousness of the problem , which I discussed with the Indonesian Foreign Minister — as , perhaps , the right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) has done . |
| 19 | A coherent school policy on Standard English can be based on the different views of the main aims of English teaching which I listed in the previous chapter. : |
| 20 | except for the last one which I missed off the last time . |
| 21 | I 've got the first issue which I bought at the away match at the Arse earlier on . |
| 22 | The relevance of the lengthy preliminary exposition which I devoted to the modern Freudian theory of society should now begin to become apparent . |
| 23 | In terms of Julia Kristeva 's model , which I introduced in the last chapter , this would be a first stage , liberal equal-rights-and-opportunities response . |
| 24 | It 's been known for a very long time that from these cases you can isolate this organism C diphtheria bacterium which you saw in the practical classes and has this distinctive stayed property where er certain granules can be stayed up and also the arrangement of the cells is rather reminiscent of what called Chinese lettering . |
| 25 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
| 26 | Reaching into her skirt pocket , she brought out a silver shilling which she placed into the older man 's hand . |
| 27 | Before Cowley could add anything further , Roz Hatch appeared on the back lawn , carrying a tray of coffee , which she placed on the wide garden table . |
| 28 | Fascinated , Dr Neil , who had opened the bag and was beginning to pull out strange-looking forceps and a bottle of chloroform , watched her lift up her black skirt to reveal a spotless white petticoat , from which she cut a large square which she placed on the grimy table , having first cleared to one side the used cups and plates covered in half-eaten food . |
| 29 | Above the sink was a large cupboard which she opened despite the disapproving suck of John 's tongue . |
| 30 | She wrapped them in a piece of pale yellow silk which she tied up with a purple ribbon , and enclosed them in a square biscuit tin which she pushed to the very back of the buffet , behind the piles of tablecloths and napkins . |