Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was how many of them got into the peep shows , selling off their self-respect in order to finance their habit . |
| 2 | And now I look back on the years I wasted on the building sites and I should 've become a policeman ea a lot earlier cos it 's great fun . |
| 3 | After all as I tramped around the hillside barns in the frosty air I was working up a better appetite for my turkey than all the millions lying in bed or slumped by the fire ; and this was aided by the innumerable aperitifs I received from the hospitable farmers . |
| 4 | I met with the station officers at St Anne 's Head in June of this year and informed them of the way that divers should be operating . |
| 5 | On the same afternoon I met with the rail unions and ( loyally supported by Peter Parker ) put the position to them . |
| 6 | But that November evening , the evening it all started , it was raining heavily and just after six I passed through the iron gates and followed the path through the forest of Gothic monuments and gravestones . |
| 7 | ‘ I knew something was happening as I got to the hospital steps . |
| 8 | It was when I got into the Law Courts and began a long series of litigation lasting twenty five years " . |
| 9 | I found work but I did n't tell them I had nowhere to stay , that when it was night time , I got on the night buses and stayed there until morning and then went back to work . |
| 10 | ‘ The reaction I got from the Twin Cities race was really out of proportion , ’ he says with appropriate modesty . |
| 11 | Could have done without the lip I got from the scouse stallholders though ( sample : ‘ The League Title cost a fortune in them days … ’ ) . |
| 12 | The person concerned is , generally speaking , the mother , but , given the role reversal which I experienced during the school holidays , it seems reasonable to point to my father 's behaviour as a possible contributory factor to my becoming anorexic . |
| 13 | With my cousin Emka , I wandered through the oak woods gathering wild flowers — the cyclamens in which the Kras is so abundant at that time of year . |
| 14 | Erm , as I mentioned with the group visitors we 've started up a branch action group fo specifically focused on the sort of branch issues . |
| 15 | When I arrived at the school I saw some people who I recognised from the induction days . |
| 16 | There I was , talking to people asleep this morning and I woke to the dulcet tones of talking on the radio . |
| 17 | ‘ A week ago I played with the Rectory children . |
| 18 | He 's a gem , always full of good humour , and he 's been on a few times , now , but this particular moment was when I noticed in the studio lights a glint of trouser zip . |
| 19 | On reaching the island I strolled through the market stalls surrounding the harbour and followed paths to peaceful coves hiding mysterious prehistoric rock carvings . |
| 20 | So I strolled amid the base huts sheltering those far-flung operatives of commerce , waiting for the heat of the day to draw the moisture from my 60/40 silk/viscose trouser mix . |
| 21 | When I arrived at the Palace gates with my invitation card I was somewhat taken aback when two or three in the crowd around the railings recognized me and asked for autographs — in that place of all places ! |
| 22 | ‘ I stripped off the breadcrumb coats from the chicken things and threw that away . |
| 23 | I turned on the parking lights and drove slowly forward . |
| 24 | I skipped across the baking flagstones , eyes clenched against the brutal light . |
| 25 | That is why I began with the hill towns : for they wear so much , so conspicuously , on their face . |
| 26 | Little terns fished out at sea ; I could hear their squabblings as I walked across the sand hills . |
| 27 | Well it , it , at least it 's gold , I mean , I , I , I was in the jewellery trade when I first left school , between school and national service I worked at a manufacturing jewellers in Birmingham and I 've never really gone along with the idea that nine carat is actually gold . |
| 28 | I worked in the coal mines for three years to obtain my colliery manager 's certificate . |
| 29 | D. A. I used to be on an adjoining beat in Cressington Park and I started at the park gates at one side of the road and there was a policeman on the other side of the road — you would n't cross the road to talk to him … you were n't allowed to talk to the public — that was gossiping , idling your time , failing to work your beat — three charges straight away and soon as the sergeant reported you . |
| 30 | On occasions I looked at the casualty cards myself and identified potential clients that for one reason or another were not referred to me . |