Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sort of analysis is substantially similar to Jakobson 's discussion of Poe 's ‘ Raven ’ ( Sebeok 1971 : 371–2 ) , which I referred to in the last chapter , and it may well be that the New Critics ' influence lay behind Jakobson 's arguments there . |
| 2 | And erm I ca I came to in the first place because it was the best teaching hospital in the Midlands at that time . |
| 3 | ‘ It was the old Linfield spirit that carried them through because it was n't a great Linfield team , compared to the sides Trevor and I played for in the 80s . |
| 4 | I have shamefully mixed feelings about the F-word , because the valorous riflemen I served with in the last war could hardly utter a sentence without it . |
| 5 | The one that counted against me most was the Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee , which I worked for in the late Thirties . |
| 6 | In fact it 's very much like the higher order networks that I talked about in the last lecture er I think it was the last lecture but one , and the networks which pre-process the data before they 're presented to the network by some higher function . |
| 7 | Most dishearteningly , Sports Illustrated , the country 's premier sports magazine , sent over ex-Patriot Clive Gammon ( who I talked to at the US-New Zealand and England matches ) but not one line has appeared in the magazine yet . |
| 8 | In particular , her hatred of her body and her description of her breasts as ‘ useless lumps of flesh ’ echo the feelings of other girls I spoke to about the female body . |
| 9 | ‘ As long as you do n't ask me who I voted for in the General Election . ’ |
| 10 | The one I voted for in the original poll ( I think , it seems ages ago now ) was Bremner . |
| 11 | The Pereires , however , did not know modern commercial banking , which developed at about the same time across the channel in England . |
| 12 | And erm we erm when you got to about the third class I think you you was allowed to participate int he woodwork and metal er class , you used to go across for half a day a week . |
| 13 | In effect , those who operated from within the comfy confines of the constitutional approach , froze the constitution when the set-up is never fixed . |
| 14 | Well that article you referred to at the very beginning of the programme in the Observer , the final part of that article went something like this erm ‘ this article is not intended to accuse individuals or colleges . |
| 15 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 16 | Was there still the erm the , the thing you talked about with the guaranteed work at that time ? |
| 17 | RO Of the Italian-born singers you worked with in the 1950s one thinks of Tito Gobbi in Falstaff and Rolando Panerai , who appeared on so many of your recordings — your Guglielmo in the famous Così fan tutte , di Luna in Il trovatore , and Ford on both your recordings of Falstaff . |
| 18 | By trying to concentrate on what she thought of as the negative parts of his personality she would protect her own weakness . |
| 19 | The young and feisty Armour did n't much care for what she thought of as the anglicised overlay of GSA at that time . |
| 20 | The only person that she spoke to on the whole crossing was a young man who fell on top of her as she and he were going down the stairs : he was following her , two steps behind , when the boat gave a violent lurch and he missed his footing and crashed into her , and she too missed her footing , and they both sat down together upon the stairs . |
| 21 | And it seems that the money , in so far as it emerges in budgets that clearly , is determined by crude political muscle and nothing to do with reason and analysis — all the things that you stood for in the sixties and seventies . |
| 22 | And we now know that these ghastly effects are the results of what we referred to in the last lecture endotoxins . |
| 23 | The answer is the one that we arrived at in the previous paragraph . |
| 24 | The diffused light , which we started with at the collective level , has become a powerful current , and we ourselves can be the channel for it . |
| 25 | This reserve was cut to around 12% and the result was that the Stirling was able to operate at 18,500′ plus , which was a much better height than the bare 12,500′ we struggled to in the early days of PFF . |
| 26 | N no , we went into about the second or third I think , is there one up there one up there |
| 27 | The other half ‘ with thee I am well pleased ’ comes from that picture of the Servant of Yahweh in Isaiah 42:1 which we looked at in the last chapter . |
| 28 | It shows how these different styles are likely to have a marked effect on the crime statistics collected by particular police forces , an issue we looked at in the previous chapter on criminal statistics . |
| 29 | Then you tell the story of the murder and the subsequent investigation , adroitly working in the fact that there was a red light shining at the vital time and place , using one of the ways of tricking your reader into " noticing and not noticing " this that we looked at in the previous chapter , and you also harp like mad on the impossibility of a person in a black dress or suit having been on hand at the moment the murder was committed . |
| 30 | We can see the similarities here between the scientific approach to organisations and its similarity to bureaucracy that we looked at in the previous chapter . |