Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone has had a reasonable work-out and we 've been very fortunate with the weather at a time of the year when you can have a lot of matches ruined by rain . ’ |
| 2 | I think that we should have access to the schools for everyone who is interested in education , and I think that includes teachers , so that is why I was very grateful to receive your invitation today , and I think the series is good , but I think that why we want an open society within our schools is because everyone has got a tremendous interest in education until people begin to surround it with jargon or to build walls and barriers which create a closed society . |
| 3 | Four patients have developed recurrent stones , one of whom has had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy , a second who is about to have a laparoscopic procedure , and two who are free of symptoms . |
| 4 | So far no-one has suggested a successful remedy . |
| 5 | ‘ Watch it for Christ sake , ’ Billy bawled into the wind , ‘ ca n't you see I 've had a hard night . ’ |
| 6 | mind you the trouble is it 's alright in saying that but you see I 've got a bad chest , Philip 's got a bad chest |
| 7 | I got offered a part-time job in a bakery at the weekends , and he said he 'd look after the kids , but he never did , so I could n't do it . |
| 8 | I think someone has done a great wrong . |
| 9 | ‘ Someone has done a lovely drawing of me . |
| 10 | ( Someone has described a similar awareness as faint , unidentifiable longings . ) |
| 11 | Once someone has used a particular credit type , they are very likely to buy other things in the same way . |
| 12 | Similarly if someone has left a certain amount to somebody and has added that the sum can quite easily be offset , since the beneficiary is his debtor on account of Gaius Seius ' estate ; yet the beneficiary does not wish to enter that estate but claims the trust : our emperor replied by rescript that he was claiming the trust against the intention of the testator , since in trusts the intention of the testator is particularly to be regarded and observed . |
| 13 | Someone has spotted a prowling car . |
| 14 | And unfortunately I 'd eaten a large quantity of this Afghani black and I was really bombed out and I slept half way through Jimi Hendrix and I could have kicked myself . |
| 15 | A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window … |
| 16 | I 'd seen a 100 franc note on the mantelpiece at old Ma Scamp 's place . |
| 17 | In the past I 'd seen a fair bit of Lloyd . |
| 18 | I retraced my steps , by this time it was 7 pm and I 'd done a long walk and about 45 miles on the bike . |
| 19 | I remember before that the wind changed pretty suddenly from southwest to nearer west I think and I 'd made a new hen house I thought indestructible . |
| 20 | At first it looked as though I 'd made a big mistake . |
| 21 | He said of his winter sporting expedition : ‘ I felt I 'd reached a decent standard by the end of the week , although I did take a tumble or two . |
| 22 | I thought that I 'd created a new directory but I did n't . |
| 23 | I also thought I 'd written a better poem because I 'd struggled with the voice , forced myself to hear it again in my mind and to reply to it . |
| 24 | My breathing was not too good — I 'd led a soft life these past months . |
| 25 | I 'd planned a liquid dinner for myself — ’ |
| 26 | I 'd bought a special bottle of wine . |
| 27 | I remember , again a few years ago , visiting India and buying one or two beautifully carved tables , which had obviously been carved by an individual spending quite a lot of time doing it , and I was impressed at that stage , rather naively perhaps , that if in fact I 'd bought a plain table , an uncarved one , it would have cost me about ten times as much , for the simple reason that that would require a milling machine which was not normally available , and such was the erm economy that it was cheaper for people to do this . |
| 28 | Once I 'd mastered a none-too-straightforward control panel , which looks rather like those muticoloured ever-flickering computers you find on the dashboard of executive cars , my test run got under way . |
| 29 | I can only say how much I cherished the " Well done , lad " , from him after I 'd taken a difficult catch in the deep off his bowling . |
| 30 | But by now I 'd found a new market — the Sunday papers . |