Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst I would commend you to study the German Staff Paper in its entirety , I would also draw your attention to its personal citation of AVM Bennett , and note the dateline March — 1944 : " This 35-year-old Australian — known as one of the most resourceful officers in the RAF — had distinguished himself as long ago as 1938 by a record long-range flight to South Africa … an example of his personal operational capabilities … may be cited in the attack which he made of the German Fleet base at Trondheim . " |
| 2 | That evening Carter gave a warm toast to the Shah in which he spoke of the great importance of Iran 's relationship to the United States . |
| 3 | When Anne left them she thought of the first time she had stood on that corner saying goodnight to John . |
| 4 | It is ‘ an extraordinary compound ’ , as he himself wrote of the Prime Minister , although the elements and the whole are as different from anything which could have emanated from Lloyd George as it is possible to imagine . |
| 5 | Lowe was in Auckland promoting a video of his life and times — inevitably referring to him as a ‘ master coach ’ which is now becoming one of the more boring sporting clichés — and was asked what he thought of the All Blacks ' failure to bring home the Cup . |
| 6 | Once I asked him what he thought of the French system of criminal justice and he replied that during his career he had no time left over from practising our own system to study any other ( which I think is representative of the Bar as a whole ) . |
| 7 | ‘ There is apparently some great defect in our system , ’ concluded Khrushchev from his pensioner 's park bench as he compared what he saw of the capitalist West with the shoddy goods , poor food and massive waste of the supposed workers ' paradise . |
| 8 | In particular , they would oppose anything which smacked of the corporatist state . |