Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [noun pl] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a couple of mates who are Forest fans , and I got them tickets for the first game of the season . |
| 2 | Meanwhile I saw her breasts for the first time . |
| 3 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 4 | I washed my billycans for the first time since Reggane , and cleaned the kit and groundsheet with disinfectant . |
| 5 | But the old religion had elements which prepared its adherents for the symbolism of the new : the death and resurrection of Osiris , the representations of the mother goddess Isis with her son Horus on her lap , the symbol of life in the form of a cross , the Egyptian ankh . |
| 6 | Last month he emerged from a meeting in the northern city of Olomouc with support for his ‘ Olomouc theses ’ , which outlined his ideas for the Forum in advance of its conference , due to open on January 12th . |
| 7 | Just walking behind that hut where you got your tickets for the putting-green . |
| 8 | She noticed his teeth for the first time : small and irregular , like pieces of gravel on a driveway , but sparkling white . |
| 9 | Arriving after a gruelling 13 hour flight , appeared bright and full of energy , almost immediately giving a press conference where she expressed her fears for the future of peace and democracy in her country . |
| 10 | Even though she was making light of it , Charlie could n't mistake the fire that animated her when she reached his entries for the final night of Christine Ashdown 's brief career . |
| 11 | She gave her orders for the next week 's farm work and then turned to one of the men . |
| 12 | It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Even with such a drastic cut , we estimated our losses for the first year as being in the region of £148,000 . |
| 14 | During our last seven months , as we prepared our recommendations for the secondary stages , the officials of the National Curriculum Council under their Chairman , Duncan Graham , were rewriting the attainment targets for the primary stages , supposedly in accord with the consultation exercise and Mr Baker 's own proposals about grammar . |
| 15 | In fact you 've been downright unbearable ever since we finished your articles for the journal . ’ |
| 16 | We discussed our plans for the living museum and theme park and told her about the oak tree . |
| 17 | They shared their responsibilities for the smooth running of Zone I with the enthusiasm of those bound by a loveless marriage . |
| 18 | And a couple of young clerks , that 's where they bred their clerks for the future use sort of thing you know . |
| 19 | ‘ They gave me sandwiches for the journey , but I left them on my bunk . ’ |
| 20 | However , on Oct. 24 Democrats in the House appeared willing to compromise when they abandoned their demands for the inclusion of surtax , in favour of phasing out personal tax exemptions for those with incomes in excess of $100,000 . |
| 21 | He asked their Lordships for the forthcoming Proof before the Sheriff to be heard away from Orkney in mainland Scotland . |
| 22 | Things were just a touch grim at the Shakespeare School before it occluded its portals for the vacation . |
| 23 | He described his proposals for the coming year as neutral because he did not want to hamper recovery . |
| 24 | He was short and deeply unpopular with everyone because he had cheated them out of their money when he collected their taxes for the Roman army . |
| 25 | He reviewed the changes made during his period as Soviet leader saying that " a totalitarian system which deprived the country of an opportunity to become wealthy and prosperous a long time ago has been liquidated " , and he expressed his hopes for the future : " Some mistakes could probably have been avoided , much been done better , but I am sure that sooner or later our shared efforts will achieve results . " |
| 26 | In his old age , memory perhaps somewhat affected by imagination , he wrote his recollections for the ‘ Cornish Times ’ of 1901 . |