Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old land-owning families prospered and built under Queen Elizabeth I 's reign , but many of them became badly unstuck during the Civil War . |
| 2 | It does seem to me that there are still relatively few women who become professional scientists , and today I hope that you two ladies will help me explore perhaps some of the reasons why this is the case . |
| 3 | Save them walking too far up the road if they |
| 4 | As the campaign progressed , I became increasingly angry at the attitudes of my friends at home and how different they said things were there , believing , as I did and still do , in the importance of a Labour victory for Britain as a whole . |
| 5 | In the Southern Ocean , in that great reverberating blue-green world I shared with nature , I became intensely aware of the way in which men and women have trapped themselves within cities . |
| 6 | As the months went by , I became quite excited by the prospect of weighing myself every Monday . |
| 7 | And in that time I became very close to the bunch of desperadoes I 'd first flown out with . |
| 8 | But I can tell you this : she and I became very close over the years . |
| 9 | Phil Andrews and I became very friendly with the owner , a very talented engineer who then had an engineering works in Cardiff . |
| 10 | I became very interested in the trade union movement and my first appointment was as a collector in collecting the union dues and taking them up to the union office . |
| 11 | At about the time the new clock was commissioned , I became seriously ill with a heart condition , and it proved not possible to undertake the extensive research required to faithfully replicate the old clock . |
| 12 | I mean how much of a community is there in the flats ? |
| 13 | I belong to the species that believes in replicated nuclear power stations , but I remain obstinately unconvinced by the pressurised water reactor option . |
| 14 | Despite the slick advertising on television I remain totally unconvinced of the case for primary tests . |
| 15 | I fear that much of the ‘ anti ’ feeling is really part of the class war . |
| 16 | I pick up some of the papers that have escaped from their boxes , pages of unidentified figures that are meaningless in their isolation , and use them as a duster to clean the top of a solidly filled Quaker Oats box and make a chair for myself Then I open up the next nearest box , labelled Squeez-Ee Washing-up Liquid . |
| 17 | And I got really annoyed at the manipulation of the young , and the godfathers who are sitting free today . |
| 18 | However er I got quite friendly with a signalman at er Street . |
| 19 | On one occasion I got together twelve of the most prominent crimps ; they were a soulless and cold blooded lot . |
| 20 | I was gon na but I , I thought , I thought if sees me when I come in , cos I had make up all down my face cos I 'd been so upset , I got so angry with the whole thing |
| 21 | Without any apparent break in the text and without any change of tone in my voice I got out some of the things I so badly needed to tell you . |
| 22 | ‘ I got more popular in the sixth form . |
| 23 | I used to lie down and have a sleep because I got very tired towards the end with the baby . |
| 24 | The more I see of her , the more I realise how much of a stranger she is to me . |
| 25 | ‘ Actually , one of the things I found very tiring on the ‘ Brothers In Arms ’ tour was soundchecking . |
| 26 | I 'm a 19-year-old Scottish university student- But why am I becoming so interested in the Personal columns ? |
| 27 | I squat down next to the little kid and point again . |
| 28 | ( I woke up chilly in the morning . ) |
| 29 | Instead , I cut back some of the more boisterous forest plants in my garden . |
| 30 | Here I cut down several of the largest trees with my knife , and made two wooden boxes . |