Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next twenty minutes I drew picture after picture of devils playing and donkeys dancing . |
| 2 | It was at this point that I came face to face with the realisation that human beings could be studied like other animals , and I went on , past chimpanzees , to investigate the behaviour of this strange creature that I christened The Naked Ape . |
| 3 | Last winter I came face to face with one on the landing — I do n't know which of us was the more scared . |
| 4 | Turning a corner along a narrow track , I came face to face with a blustering capercaillie , as big as a turkey . |
| 5 | With lots of luck I came face to face with a round face man in uniform . |
| 6 | All these thoughts were racing through my head when I came face to face with you , and when you did n't show me out I could n't entirely understand why . |
| 7 | Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to . |
| 8 | Now in nineteen er nineteen fifteen , the the of course the War 'd started and I can remember this so well because the day after me birthday er there was a raid , a Zeppelin raid on and I saw this Zeppelin and that day the thirty first of January nineteen fifteen when this raid was , I wen I went to work at six in the morning and I finished work at quarter to nine at night . |
| 9 | ‘ I started work at Christmas-time in Banwen colliery , the 29th of December . |
| 10 | I lost count of time as The Butcher banged away and the girl hung on grimly to my jerking skull . |
| 11 | Like the golfer who hits his one decent shot on the eighteenth hole and can not wait for the following weekend 's game , I felt light of heart with the warm promise of another evening in the company of the delightful Sally Drayton . |
| 12 | I reached Belle-Ile by ferry from the peninsula of Quiberon , after a seven-hour drive in 27-degree heat from the Paris airport that nothing on earth would induce me to repeat — though my two companions , one British and one French , conversed enthusiastically on opera , European politics , and structural anthropology . |
| 13 | Cos I boiled kettle at quarter to five cos normally she gets here about five |
| 14 | However , I think the minister had something to do with the essays I wrote and the natural history notes I kept day by day besides the almost daily entries in a general diary … |
| 15 | By the way , I I did that so I did area of square along the side . |
| 16 | Oh and I had sort of marble on the , formica marble contact , that contact stuff on top , purple carpet , er mustard and grey suite , that was an odd shape that suite was n't it ? |
| 17 | I sprinkled water in front of the altar , and put some flowers on it , violets and dogwood . |
| 18 | I drank brandy for breakfast in Tanta . ’ |
| 19 | First , it may be recalled that in Chapter 2 , I concluded discussion of habitation by allowing the possibility that simple exposure to a stimulus might result in the formation of an increasingly detailed and well-specified representation of it . |
| 20 | Thomas Newcomen became a blacksmith and an ironmonger , and it was in 1705 that , in partnership with Thomas Savery and John Colley , he patented the first engine which made use of steam as a motive power . |
| 21 | Authorities exceeding their target incurred a penalty which involved loss of grant for each additional pound of expenditure per head of population above target . |
| 22 | Liberal improvers , progressive Conservatives and socialists found themselves sharing some common ground in this assumption that it was the duty of the State to provide a better life for its citizens and which found expression in support for comprehensive social welfare , a national health service and a more humane treatment of those in need . |
| 23 | For many on the Left , the European Economic Community has appealed to a certain brand of internationalism which found expression in hostility to the nation state . |
| 24 | We must remember , too , that Dissenters in the 18th century were not the political revolutionaries they had been in the 17th — there was a sense in which the rabid Nonconformity of one generation became the established respectability of the next , and commentators like Halevy have suggested that it was precisely the innate conservatism of the new dissent , Methodism , which helped stave off revolution in England in the early 19th century — a real opium of the people , in effect . |
| 25 | The proposed reform of nurse education in the UK , which received approval in principle from the Conservative government in May 1983 , promises a period of tremendous upheaval as the delicate balance of educational and service priorities is carefully weighed and restructured . |
| 26 | On the same day , the Irish government promised a detailed study of the loophole in the extradition law , which prevented extradition for possession of , but would have allowed it for use of , a firearm . |
| 27 | It was then placed alongside the house on top of two 10′ railway sleepers , which allowed room for pipework in the hollow sections beneath the filter unit . |
| 28 | Winger Ford 's clincher was the climax of a week which turned tragedy into happiness for him . |
| 29 | The Chancellor claimed the overall effect of the Budget — which included help for business through far-reaching reforms of the company taxation system — would be to support economic recovery . |
| 30 | It was noticeable that the two pictures which took pride of place on Diana 's bedside dressing-table were not of her family but of her favourite hamsters , Little Black Muff and Little Black Puff . |