Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Many Frenchmen whom I met on several occasions at the Training Centre at Achnacarry and on the South Coast of England had also gone , either killed or wounded .
2 People like ex-British Airways captain Derek Ellis whom I met at Kerikeri airfield .
3 I was chased mercilessly about the streets by my campaign assistant , Simon Heffer , who is now the chief leader-writer of the Daily Telegraph but whom I knew in those days as a fellow ( but younger ) old boy from Chelmsford .
4 Still , this orgy of food and sex would have suited the dear departed Peter Langan ( with whom I worked for four years ) very nicely .
5 I , I I made about sixty quid last year , you know ?
6 ‘ My GP prescribed an oral antibiotic which I took for five months , but it did n't do anything .
7 I was able to realize this desire agreeably by means of a small scholarly society which I formed with two friends . "
8 This book is about Britain 's Defence policy in her post-imperial era , and is the sequel to my Withdrawal from Empire , published in 1986 , in which I looked through military eyes at the creation , development and eventual transformation of the Empire into the loosely-knit British Commonwealth .
9 and placed his resignation in my hands , which I accepted with great regret .
10 But I soon learnt how to bake little cakes made of corn , which I ate with warm milk .
11 The bedding which I observed at first hand in 1954 in the peasant community of Pul Eliya was nothing like as grand as the stereotype ; but , apart from some minor differences , it had all the same elements and for the most part they occurred in just the same sequence .
12 However I do not recall hearing of any problem every being experienced by low-flying military hardware or cruise-level GA over Madley Earth Station which I managed for several years prior to my retirement last year , and which I believe is a much larger facility than Oakhanger .
13 The European arts festival , which I announced on 9 December will be a rewarding and imaginative way of celebrating our Presidency of the European Community in the second half of the year .
14 And one of the differences that anorexia can become much more visible and identifiable , whereas those of us who have experienced bulimia , which I had for thirteen years , can be extremely secret and well disguised because we normally do n't change from normal body weight .
15 An American film was showing which I recognized as Double Indemnity .
16 I soon felt hungry and thirsty , and my first food was fruit which I found on some trees near a river .
17 Two members of the W.A.A.F. posted to Station X neatly encapsulated the idiosyncratic nature of Bletchley Park and its denizens in these verses , which I found with great pleasure in Beryl Escott 's recent Women in Air Force Blue :
18 I was also gratified by the immense good will and friendship towards Britain which I encountered on all sides .
19 Also asked him for report which I needed for Statutory Review .
20 The national and local results of the tests of seven-year-olds which I published on 19 December give , for the first time , a clear picture of how our seven-year-olds are performing .
21 At the time tomato purée for the restaurant was preserved in champagne bottles which were then sterilised — a method which was demonstrated to me by the cook at a pensione in Anacapri where I stayed during the summer of 1952 , and which I described in Italian Food .
22 Mrs Di Billups was head of Broughton Junior School , South Humberside , which I visited with great pleasure and profit in the summer of 1988 .
23 As someone bereaved through the disease , I felt angry and upset by the flippancy with which you dealt with this subject .
24 Well a ponch er it 's sort of made of wood , and got a got a handle crosswise which you held in one half of it in each hand , it had a stem , and on the on the ponch itself was a sort of er piece of wood that had been er cut out to have about four , I think it was four , legs on this , you see and you used to stand over the ponch and
25 So if there 's anything , there 's a slightly different approach to it , and one thing that we are being urged to do , through the very way in which you mentioned in another context , is to make sure that facilities are appropriate locally , and developing policies within that .
26 The housekeeper brought in the coffee in an ornate silver tray which she deposited on one level of the Scandinavian wall-system .
27 ‘ Ingested that from which she died at that meal ? ’
28 Robyn , doing her best to ignore the almost overwhelming feeling of pure dislike which she had for this man , glanced at the ornate carriage clock beside the bed , registered the time slowly and looked aghast .
29 The goddess Hathor is thus given an uncharacteristic fierce role , but one which she fulfilled with great zeal .
30 Lesley turned smartly left as the lights changed , and wound her way by back-streets to the parking-ground on the edge of the shopping centre , a multi-storey monstrosity of raw concrete , at which she gazed with resigned distaste as she crept slowly up to the barrier and drove in to the second tier .
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