Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The triple alliance which I originally sought to conclude after the peace of Frankfurt and about which I had already sounded Vienna and St. Petersburg in September 1870 , was an alliance of the three Emperors with the further idea of bringing into it monarchical Italy . |
| 2 | The Triple Alliance , which I first tried to arrange after the Franco-Prussian War , and about which I had already approached Austria and Russia in 1870 , was an alliance of three Emperors , with the further idea of including the King of Italy . |
| 3 | Statements such as , ‘ I did n't see it previously ’ ; ‘ I 've just noticed something new ’ ; I can see all sorts of things of interest which I had n't seen before' ; ‘ I was n't interested in that before … suddenly it has a very significant part to play ’ ; ‘ the painting is actually changing for me ’ ; ‘ I 'm just discovering it ’ ; ‘ I 've started now to appreciate … ‘ , abounded . |
| 4 | It is probable that the economic situation in the industrial countries will deteriorate further in the longer term as some of the constraints upon growth which I discussed earlier take effect ; and there will then be a much greater likelihood of conflict among the rich nations themselves in the struggle for natural resources , markets and some kind of economic growth , while the poorer developing countries will experience increasing hardship and may reach a point of economic collapse . |
| 5 | The majority , which I did n't have time to scan , appeared designed for juvenile rather than adult readers . |
| 6 | No in the air superiority role I did n't hear a comparison with the S U thirty five or the Fulcrum M E twenty nine S er are there any other aircraft of er perhaps comparable capacity with which you did not compare Eurofighter ? |
| 7 | She would ‘ have to make a very special effort ’ to build the links with other professionals — GPs , the police , consultants and others on which she had barely had time to start in the five months she was there . |
| 8 | She was absorbedly prodding the aged melon , which she had somehow got hold of . |
| 9 | The conventions prevented her from heaping any further abuse on Chay Bank , a housing project which she had frequently and loudly denounced , but near which she had never set foot : the precariousness of her own social position would forever prevent her from visiting Fred Bowen , and this yearly ritual meeting on neutral ground was as much as she would ever dare risk . |
| 10 | He took her , or began to , in the direct , unsentimental manner in which she had always understood men took their whores , hurting her slightly not from any particular roughness on his part but because her body had turned dry with protest , resisting him as her supple mind did not . |
| 11 | She is observing the Coroner now with that same surreptitious brooding care with which she had once watched Millie and me from her kitchen window , as we stood talking , or not talking , at the gate . |
| 12 | Details of yesterday 's court order were not made public , but it has been reported that Miss Bonham-Carter has provided the court with a map with a red line marking an area of several hundred yards around her house which she did not want Mr Farquharson to enter . |
| 13 | It was intended purely to acquaint us with a field of art historical research to which we had very limited access and to give us the opportunity of establishing a dialogue . |
| 14 | Conversely , many headquarters staff saw those in the field as too narrowly concerned with the running of their own prison establishments , and resistant to any suggestion that they should be called to account for the extent to which they implemented nationally agreed policies . |
| 15 | A cluster of keys which they 'd never found doors to fit ; instruction documents for a blender he 'd burned out making midnight margaritas ; a plastic bottle of massage oil . |
| 16 | The 1975 Lyceum concerts were not the first Walters shows in London , but the impact with which they hit still has implications for reggae today . |
| 17 | In order to set a baseline her parents set aside an hour each evening for one week during which they did not tell Lindsay to stop , but recorded the duration of each nose picking session and the frequency . |
| 18 | After hearing a terrible denunciation of practices in which he had willingly taken part in the past , we might have expected that he would have wished to have further clarifications before he left Rome , or that some plan of action would have been agreed . |
| 19 | In January 1340 Edward formally assumed the title of king of France ( to which he had already laid claim in 1337 ) , perhaps to make his Flemish allies feel that they were legally entitled to help him oppose their traditional lord , the king of France . |
| 20 | Piloting his tinny little car west out of Oxford with blithe disregard for the rules of the road , he declined to specify their destination — beyond the fact that it was where Morpurgo had met with his accident — and instead treated Harry to a detailed account of the death of Ramsey Everett , an account which he had previously given Heather , almost , it seemed , word for word . |
| 21 | Later , when they lay quiet and apart once more , Maria thought about his attitude , adding it to the oddly driven way in which he had just made love to her . |
| 22 | There was no point in past music with which he had to reconcile what he wanted to say , or to which he had necessarily to make reference . |
| 23 | There is evidence that Protestant millenarianism , enjoying a resurgence during the civil war period in England , could provide a framework within which Bacon 's program for the empirical sciences gained an extra impetus — despite the fact that Bacon himself had been hostile to any religious movement that might threaten the fragile monarchy to which he had constantly vowed allegiance . |
| 24 | For Wykeham he designed New College , Oxford , and supervised the works there from 1379 to 1386 , after which he went on to design Winchester College , ready for occupation in 1394 but not completed until after 1400 . |
| 25 | Initially he used to race Model A Fords before later joining the Chevrolet team , after which he went on to win Argentina 's top event , the Gran Premio Nacional . |
| 26 | He was an assiduous and permanent gambler of modest sums , He told me on one occasion that any year in which he did not win £1,000 was by his standards a failure . |
| 27 | There was a lipstick , which he did n't hand back . |
| 28 | But there are no signs that either the phrase or the policy which it expressed ever became part of his own thinking either about the Church as a whole or about his own duties as archbishop . |
| 29 | Was the Council willing to embark on a major new undertaking in a field in which it had only limited experience , none of it in the validation of teacher education itself ? |
| 30 | As early as 1913 , when the British Medical Research Committee ( later Council ) was established ( see Chapter 4 ) , cancer was the major topic to which it did not direct attention , because a charitable find , the Imperial Cancer Research Fund , was already making substantial provision . |